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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP. PAL Amiga is available ??
Message-ID: <827@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 01:00:50 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  3 01:00:50 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Oct-86 10:59:26 EDT
References: <5489@decwrl.DEC.COM> <786@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> <1969@videovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1969@videovax.UUCP> stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) writes:
>In article <786@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, Jeff Porter (porter@cbmvax.UUCP)
>writes:
>
>> As it turns out, Brazil has a COMPOSITE video signal with PAL syncs
>> and NTSC color burst.  This is what the first Amigas in Europe have.
>> . . .
>
...technical details omitted...
>
>If the Amigas being sold in Europe really do conform to the Brazilian
>standard (PAL-M), they are totally incompatible with European television
>sets.  I hope this is not the case. . .
>
>					Steve Rice

You must have missed the original posting.  It is acknowldeged that the first
Amiga's shipped to Europe *DO NOT* generate a useful composite video signal.
They are being sold as RGB only systems bundled with monitors.

It is an unintentional coincidence that the 'composite' signal that they do
emit bears a superficial resemblance to the Brazilian PAL standard.  This
apparently contributed to some of the confusion exhibited by an Italian
Amiga dealership.

As an amusing note, Commodore *has* manufactered C64's that do conform to
the Brazilian PAL-M standard.  A curse on the excessive number of color
video standards.  These things are often discussed over on net.video...
-- 
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