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William Sommerwerck wrote:
Indeed - but as I said not actually PAL. That refers to phased
alternate line. And designed to overcome problems with
transmission that NTSC suffers from.

While introducing problems of its own, such as severe desaturation under
conditions of excessive group-delay error.

Wasn't being jingoistic, BTW. There is always a downside being first like
with NTSC. But I'm not sure what you mean by group delay?

IIRC was taught that NTSC gives the best off camera pictures, PAL for
processing and recorded to tape and SECAM for transmission?

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