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Its probably a political/isolationist thing. They
just don't want you getting corrupted by seeing rude and weird Zappa
stuff...LOL.
I'm a bit geographically/world politics dumb, so
apologies about my next question. Is the government there still of a military
origin? That would explain a lot. military minds get paranoid about free
thinking. Didn't Sepultura have to make a run for it for being outspoken
there?
Don't loose heart, the united kingdom aint as free
as it makes out. You can get sudden doses of bad employment luck if you speak
out here! But then we can watch a standard tv format so they are good to us
really...
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 6:22
PM
Subject: Re: [Zappa-List] A Question of
DVD formats
You�re pretty much right on most of it, Richard. About
pal-m however,
it�s not compatible with european Pal because pal-m was
developed here
by the military as a way of protecting the brazilian tv
industry (or
so they thought, i�m simplifying the story a lot here). It�s
actually
a modification of pal, but we�re the only ones who use this
format.
Nowadays most tvs here understand both pal-m and ntsc, but
almost
every digital equipment around only work in ntsc, i think even
tv
stations do all their stuff on ntsc and convert it only when
they
broadcast.
Now guess what, the morons here want to do the same
mistake again and
make our own digital tv system, instead of picking the
same one most
people in the rest of the world will soon be using.
Bah.
Gabriel
On 5/17/05, Richard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> -----
Original Message -----
> From: Gabriel
> To:
[email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:24
PM
> Subject: Re: [Zappa-List] A Question of DVD formats
>
> Brazil uses its own format called Pal-m. Pretty stupid if you ask
me.
>
>
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