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From: stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Monitors: what letters of the alphabet do I need?
Message-ID: <1972@videovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Oct-86 12:42:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: videovax.1972
Posted: Wed Oct  1 12:42:48 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Oct-86 09:48:30 EDT
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Reply-To: stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
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In article <946@tekigm.UUCP>, Phil Staub (phils@tekigm.UUCP) writes:

> There is also another system in use in France called SECAM (this one I don't
> know the meaning of the letters on. It's French, and since I don't speak 
> French, I never bothered to find out. Probably couldn't properly print it on 
> an ASCII terminal anyway 8-). ) which is totally unlike either of the above
> systems.

SECAM stands for SEQuentiel A Memoire ("sequential with storage"), according
to _The SECAM Color Television System_, by L. E. Weaver (Tektronix, Inc.,
Beaverton, Oregon, 1982).  SECAM uses a frequency-modulated chrominance
subcarrier, unlike both NTSC and PAL.

The story circulates in TV circles that SECAM actually stands for "System
Essentially Contrary to the American Method". . .

					Steve Rice

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