[murphyv310]

Hi Paul.
An interesting answer! A bit ambigious though. The course of history can change with a flick of a coin, there may be many reasons why a different outcome could have happened, just like you may not be here if your mum had met a different person! We have to forget outside influences and realise what the course of history has revealed.

OK you are doing a thesis, but it does seem rather biassed toward a system that after the war was largely untested and was not in keeping with our national pride of the time.
We now have little or no national pride and if the same situation was to happen now we could well have 625 as our TV system.

Being older, I have no doubt we did the correct thing and used a good known system up to '85.
I would also suggest that anyone saying 405 lines was rubbish go to "specksavers"!