Re: Secam question (Was Re: All in one reply)

[Pablo Vasques Bravo-Villalba]

David Heremans wrote:
> I was wondering, we always talk about PAL vs NTSC. But in in France they use
> Secam. It uses the same resolution and intensitie(=black and white) coding as
> PAL, but the colorchannels are different. Using PAL on a Secam system will
> display only the black and white version of the image.

I think this is more like a tradition. Even VDP docs
are written this way -- and it's obviously an error.
We in Brazil use PAL-M, and it's kind of strange
selecting "NTSC" to get correct speed and vertical
sync in an european game. =) We should all have used
50Hz/60Hz from beginning.

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