Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!apple!bmug!f444.n204.z1.FIDONET.ORG!Ploni.Almoni From: Ploni.Almoni@f444.n204.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ploni Almoni) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: NTSC-PAL (in)compatibility Message-ID: <276.24BDDA91@bmug.FIDONET.ORG> Date: 8 Jul 89 20:32:08 GMT Sender: ufgate@bmug.FIDONET.ORG (newsout1.26) Organization: FidoNet node 1:204/444 - MailCom Public USEN, Palo Alto CA Lines: 37 Allo M'sieu' Marc -- The WHOLE WORLD knows that: SECAM = System Electronique Contre (les) Americains while: PAL = Pray And Learn !! In the mid-60s I was a consultant to a foreign government (EBU member) and was very involved in the politics of how standards were chosen. It had very little to do with the technology, and very much to do with how Kennedy was viewed in the Soviet Union. The RCA story, however, has the odor of truth to it. Adieu et/und Guten Tag !! (The next round we may all be saying "Sayonara") -=Ploni=- -- ------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNet: 1:161/445 UUCP: sun!apple!bmug! INTERNET: bmug!@apple.COM or @bmug.fidonet.org USNAIL: BMUG, 1442A Walnut St. #62, Berkeley, CA 94709-1496 ------------------------------------------------------------- BMUG ARPANET ADDRESSES: Newsletter submissions: pub@bmug.fidonet.org Membership or business: biz@bmug.fidonet.org Information: info@bmug.fidonet.org Help Line Questions: help@bmug.fidonet.org