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I only knew about SECAM, where it’s even part of the name (Système Électronique Couleur Avec Mémoire)
by brewmarche 8mo ago
I only knew about SECAM, where it’s even part of the name (Système Électronique Couleur Avec Mémoire)
- grishka 8mo agoYou can decode a PAL signal without any memory, the memory is only needed to correct for phase errors. In SECAM though, it's a hard requirement because the two color components, Db and Dr, are transmitted on alternating lines, and you need both on each line.
- accounting2026 8mo agoYes that is called "PAL-S". But the system was designed to use the delay-line method and it was employed since the inception (first broadcast 1967).