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From: raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Raible - LSI Design)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Why don't European consider NTSC?
Message-ID: <20388@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 5 Apr 91 05:31:49 GMT
References: <164@netw23.uucp> <4267@bnr-rsc.UUCP> <1318@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au>
Reply-To: raible@cbmvax.commodore.com (Bob Raible - LSI Design)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1318@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au> pwb@newt.phys.unsw.OZ.AU (Paul W. Brooks) writes:
>In article <4267@bnr-rsc.UUCP>, mascot@bnr.ca (Scott Mason) writes:
>>In article <164@netw23.uucp> val@netw23.uucp (Oberon Kenobi) writes:
>>>
>>>P.S.:There are other locations besides America where NTSC is used.  Japan for
>>>      instance.
>>
>>I thought that Japan is also PAL. Can someone else comment?
>> 
>Can't comment on Japan, but Australia is PAL. Since PAL is a superior
>system to NTSC, maybe the Americans should consider changing over to a
>global standard than their regional idiosyncracy :-) :-) :-) !!
>(oops - thermal underwear ON)
>
>
>Paul Brooks        |Internet: pwb@newt.phys.unsw.edu.au
>Uni. of N.S.W.     |If you have trouble sleeping, try lying on the end of
>Kensington NSW 2033|   your bed. With a little luck you'll drop off. 
>AUSTRALIA          |                              - Mark Twain. 

WHAT GLOBAL STANDARD??????? Look around,besides SECAM you'll find
several incompatible flavors of both PAL and NTSC. This state of affairs
will continue on into HDTV. AT least everybody has settled on a common
production standard.