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Originally Posted by Aussie Bloke
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Check out the diagonal lines on link foto; I'd forgotten how bad PAL was. With NTSC, dots don't align but are neatly 180 deg out of phase so TVs/ video effects can extract most luminance detail with a simple comb filter (can't do that with PAL). Also PAL decoding loses half chroma V resolution and every generation of co-dec displaces the chroma down one line! At least it's not as bad as SECAM which effects manufacturers wouldn't support.