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From: gfm@mole.gnu.ai.mit.edu (George)
Subject: Re: Why don't European consider NTSC?
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	As for the NTSC/PAL thing... As I understand it the reason that PAL standard is used in Europe is that their electricty system runs at 50 Cycles per second, where as ours is 60..thus causing the differences between the scan modes on video equipment (And other stuff)