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I am probably wrong, but I would say that M
would probably be compatible with the UK PAL system. I have noticed on some old
cordless home TV distribution systems, a switch which changes the PAL
system transmitter between two different pal systems. To my recollection it
didn't make a lot of difference, possibly the sound was different slightly,
could be mistaken there though. That was some years ago and auto sensing
circuitry would cover that issue now in even the cheapest DVD player. Most
incompatibilities these days are deliberately built in to make companies rich,
not because they are genuinely incompatible. Like region codes!
The original reason that pal secam and ntsc exist
is all down to when countries went colour and what technology was available, cos
you couldn't keep asking your public to buy new compatibleTV's every time there
was a breakthrough. Yet you wanted more reliable transmission systems. NTSC used
to be known as Never The Same Colour twice by its PAL competitors.
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- Re: [Zappa-List] A Question of DVD formats Richard
