Re: From SECAM to PAL
My late Brother-In- Law lived in France, and one of the things we kept after he died was a 14" Schneider colour TV that he had apparently bought from a local supermarket some 20 years ago. It can receive SECAM, European PAL and UK PAL. I still use it with a digibox, as it fits nicely on a bookcase shelf. I have wondered why it was worth while to provide UK PAL functionality in a French TV, as it would probably only have been users within range of the Channel Islands that would have been able to receive UK PAL broadcasts. Or would it have used a multi-standard chip and it wasn't worth disabling the UK PAL functionality?
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