Re: Can anybody explain Progressive-PAL please?

In message <df1964$jdk$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, John <JohnZIZnospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes 
Tony Quinn wrote:


>>> I wonder if it's sloppy usage, with "PAL" denoting 625/50 (or
>>> rather 625/25!) rather than the colour standard.
> >
> > Confusing, isn't it? I was discussing the misuse of the term
> > 'PAL' the other day, in another newsgroup, and was labelled by
> > one person as 'pedantic'.
> >
> > I'd say it means 625/25, as well.
>
> It does, PAL is a system, not a technical standard.
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Tell the Brazilians that....


Why are you worrying over what the Brazilian's get upto ?

Merely to point out that PAL does NOT mean 625/50 (Brazil uses 525/60 with a 3.58 CSC). PAL is a colour encoding system that, if required, could work on 405/50 (the BBC did do some experiments with 405/50 NTSC IIRC) or 819/50 , the line standard is something else entirely.
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