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In article <brockmanD9zqGC.E8M@netcom.com>, brockman@netcom.com (daniel
brockman) wrote:

> In article <3qstvv$sd0@cluon.cluon.com> scotts@cluon.com (Scott Statton
N1GAK) writes:
> >In article <3qqjku$1qf@nic-nac.csu.net>,
> >Sarah Wanamaker  <Sarah.Wanamaker@sonoma.edu> wrote:
> >>James Poole <James@upstates.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >>>2)   Does anyone know where to buy a mulitisystem TV ?
> >>
> >>      I am assuming that you are talking about a TV to display both PAL and 
> >>NTSC system pictures.  No single TV will do that, however, you can buy 
> >>VCRs that are capable of playing and recording tapes in both PAL and 
> >>NTSC formats.  They can be expensive, though, around $1200.  Otherwise, 
> >>
> >>Sarah
> >>
> >
> >Wrong, Sarah.  I have a multi-system TV on my desk.  Does PAL/SECAM/NTSC
> >and some non-standard-standards (like PAL with a 3.58 MHz subcarrier,
> >or NTSC with a 4.43 MHz subcarrier).  The one I have was made by
> 
> Dear friends.... please indulge me so I can appreciate the major ebb
> and flow of this controversy.  What is PAL?  What is NTSC?  What is
> SECAM?  Are any of these the same as Japanese HiVision?  When I stop
> in at Rob's Sports Bar down the street for a beer and I see there 
> those girls and boys down in LA playing volleyball on ESPN, then
> what am I watching?  PAL?  NTSC? what?
>  

NTSC (national television system committee / never twice the same color)
is the USA TV system (also used in Japan and many other countries).

PAL (phase alternating line / pale and lurid) is the German TV system,
used in the UK, and many European countries.

SECAM (sequential colour and memory / system essentially contrary to
the American method) is the French TV system, used in many Arab 
countries, and Russia.

You are undoutbedly lusting after the Bud girls courtesy of NTSC ;-)

-- 
Pete Fraser