Re: FS: PAL videos - The Whole Story & Live at Hammersmith Odeon

[Spbarker@aol.com]

--Ron wrote:

>> What is a pal version?
>
>It refers to the standard for TV broadcasting in the UK and most of
>Western Europe (not sure about Australia & NZ). The US, Canada, I think
>nearly all of Latin America, and Japan use another standard: NTSC.
>France, Eastern Europe and a few other places have the third system,
>SECAM. (You really don't want to know what all those stand for--if you
>had the slightest reason to care, you'd already know what they mean. :-)

Simple:
NTSC = Never Twice the Same Color
SECAM = System Essentially Contrary to the American Method
PAL = Perfection At Last

Simon.
(Hastings, UK)