This is one of this things I always found funny about PAL vs NTSC arguments. There simply wasn’t a better option, at the time. Both options were engineered wit

This is one of this things I always found funny about PAL vs NTSC arguments. There simply wasn’t a better option, at the time. Both options were engineered with limited resources to best fit their respective needs. NTSC had a better refresh rate and easier hardware integration, plus 70+ years of backwards/forwards compatibility (a 1941 NTSC B+W television set could be used to watch the series finale of Friends in 2004 using a bog standard antenna for over the air signals); PAL had almost 30 years of experience and fixed some of the major issues with NTSC (primarily the Phase signaling) and had increased resolution at the cost of refresh rates. Both were pushing analog transmission bandwidth to the limits and did admirably until digital options were available and became the norm.