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Old 20th Apr 2009, 1:53 pm   #11
irishtv
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Default Re: 625-Line Television Broadcast Standards

Generally speaking the Irish don't like the term "Eire" being used in English for political reasons that are not appropriate to discuss here. I suspect that System I was named as such as Ireland was the first country to use the standard in 1962, two years before the BBC. Telefis Eireann's implementation of System I was different insofar that it was used on VHF (with letters A-I for the channel numbers) rather than UHF.

Had the UK adopted VHF 625 line TV the channels would have used the same letters as the Irish I suspect.
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