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Subject: Re: Re: TV & VCR standards
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Date: Thu, 30-Jan-86 21:09:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 30 21:09:13 1986
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/***** wdl1:net.analog / saber!msc /  4:18 pm  Jan 21, 1986*/
> 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.
That's the old 405 line B&W system.  The first TV system in the
world.  Broadcasts started in 1936 from Ally Pally (Alexandria Palace)
in North London.  It has been phased out.  When colour was widely introduced
in 1968 plans were to leave the old transmitters running for (I think)
25 years to let all the old televisions die out.  I think they
actually pulled the plug last year because they decided that all
the old sets had finally died.
-- 
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
msc@saber.uucp,  sun!saber!msc@decwrl.dec.com ...{ihnp4,sun}!saber!msc
"Boards are long and hard and made of wood"
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