Re: Can anybody explain Progressive-PAL please?



"Barney Wol" <barney.wol@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I realise this isn't the perfect forum for this question, but am hoping
> that the techies who frequent it might be able to help.
>
> I have seen the term "Progressive-PAL" on the specs of a lot of new
> equipment, and am wondering what that is. I fully understand the
> concepts of progressive and interlaced, but am curious about the "-PAL"
> suffix. Does the relevant equipment give out a sequential 625-line
> signal at 25fps, with the same 15625 Hz line frequency, and colour
> encoded with the usual 4.43MHz subcarrier? In the equipment I have seen
> this (DVD players mainly), I am surprised they would recode the signal
> to PAL, and not just stay in the component domain. Having failed to
> find any details on my web search, I am hoping someone here might have
> definitive details.

I wonder if it's sloppy usage, with "PAL" denoting 625/50 (or rather
625/25!) rather than the colour standard.


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