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Actually, I don't think there were ever PAL TV sets without the delay line. In fact, the wretched 64us delay line was one of the reasons why PAL is more expensive to make than NTSC. Still, top level analog decoders for PAL do produce a better picture than NTSC, but with the advent of digital delay or fully digital decode, the differences have dissapeared. The only thing is that some digital decoding chipsets save on costs by using low resolution AD conversion and the results are quite appaling - color banding all over the place...
The REALLY surprising thing is that some of the plasma and LCD TVs use really horrible digital processing, with about 5 bits of resolution per color. Just yesterday I looked at a TOTL Philips LCD TV, playing THEIR OWN promotional DVD and you could clearly see the color bands moving across the picture on wipe-fades! Why would someone pay $6000 for such a set is a complete mystery to me...
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