Re: Turn Your Radio On ...

On 02/02/2025 00:24, rbowman wrote:

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 20:13:41 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
 

On 01/02/2025 19:57, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2025-02-01, Lars Poulsen <lars@cleo.beagle-ears.com> wrote:

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The French version of color TV encoding was called SECAM, often
translated as "Supreme Effort Contre les AMericains".

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Or "Something Essentially Contrary to the American Method".
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LOL. The US system was truly dire for terrestrial broadcasting and only
just acceptable for cable.
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PAL was good enough for the rest of the technology

 Ah, but NTSC had a far reaching impact that had nothing to do with TVs.
Because of the TV consumer market 3.57954 MHz crystals were dirt cheap and
showed up everywhere. I believe some variant of the 8253 PIT still lives
in PCs and runs at 1/3 or 1.19318 MHz. Roll the 16 bit counter over and
you had the 55 msec tick.
 

Yup. In the UK/Europe the crystals for PAL were 4.something MHz
I use them in a digital design.

PAL crystals were used in some markets to be compatible with the TVs but
never had the off label reach.

I don't actually understand that statement
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