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In article <pfraser-1106951141080001@pfraser.slip.netcom.com> pfraser@netcom.com (Pete Fraser) writes:
>In article <brockmanD9zqGC.E8M@netcom.com>, brockman@netcom.com (daniel
>brockman) wrote:
>
>> 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 ;-)

You're right, I never doubted it for a minute.  --db

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