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From: stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP. PAL Amiga is available ??
Message-ID: <1985@videovax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 14:56:24 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 10 14:56:24 1986
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Reply-To: stever@videovax.UUCP (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
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In article <827@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, George Robbins (grr@cbmvax.UUCP)
writes:

> 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.

I'm glad to hear that it was confusion!

> 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...

Here at the Television Division of Tektronix, Inc. we do more than discuss
such things!  We build generators, monitors, processors and measurement
equipment for many of the world's television standards.  Because of the
wide variety of standards (which often reflect national and/or regional
pride), it is very important to get the details right. . .

					Steve Rice

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