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Subject: Re: TV & VCR standards
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Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 10:04:39 EST
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> Are there such things as multiple-standard TV's (that is, TV's where you can
>change the standard by flipping a switch)?  If so, are they expensive?
>I imagine that such TV's would be useful for people who travel and, for
>whatever reason, have to take their TV's.

In Switzerland (Geneva) I have used a TV set that could receive either PAL
or SECAM.  It was a Japanese brand, Hitachi I believe,  the system selection
was programmed by switches for each channel.  Once set up all that had to be
done was to select the channel and the appropriate (pre-programmed) system was
also selected.
There is another standard in England that has coarser resolution than the US
standard (fewer lines per frame).  I have heard of sets that could select that
system, but I don't think it is/was a color system.