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<blockquote data-quote="Fisty McB" data-source="post: 952548" data-attributes="member: 389824"><p>It wasn't just those countries that were behind the Iron Curtain that started switching from SECAM to PAL in the 90's, Greece did too as did numerous countries in Asia & Africa. Why this was the case I'm not so sure. I know that video editing in SECAM is more complex than that of PAL - prior to their DSO, French TV stations had PAL equipped studios with the conversion to SECAM taking place before the pictures went into the transmission chains. If I was to take an assumption why these conversions happened in Eastern Europe at least, I'd reckon that in those countries where SECAM studio & transmission equipment was possibly reaching end-of-life, it was easier & cheaper for them to convert to PAL at the time (especially when many of these countries would not generally have been in a strong financial state) and that authorities & engineers were banking on many viewers either having multi-standard TV's, colour standard converters or were still using B/W sets where a change of colour system wouldn't affect them (though I think there was one country that moved from SECAM D/K to PAL B/G so with sound subcarrier shifts it could cause some problems for receivers not able to handle it) - it's reasonably well documented about those in Warsaw Pact countries (and Albania) going to great lengths to receive TV from the west, not to mention that Yugoslavia & Romania had used PAL from the start as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fisty McB, post: 952548, member: 389824"] It wasn't just those countries that were behind the Iron Curtain that started switching from SECAM to PAL in the 90's, Greece did too as did numerous countries in Asia & Africa. Why this was the case I'm not so sure. I know that video editing in SECAM is more complex than that of PAL - prior to their DSO, French TV stations had PAL equipped studios with the conversion to SECAM taking place before the pictures went into the transmission chains. If I was to take an assumption why these conversions happened in Eastern Europe at least, I'd reckon that in those countries where SECAM studio & transmission equipment was possibly reaching end-of-life, it was easier & cheaper for them to convert to PAL at the time (especially when many of these countries would not generally have been in a strong financial state) and that authorities & engineers were banking on many viewers either having multi-standard TV's, colour standard converters or were still using B/W sets where a change of colour system wouldn't affect them (though I think there was one country that moved from SECAM D/K to PAL B/G so with sound subcarrier shifts it could cause some problems for receivers not able to handle it) - it's reasonably well documented about those in Warsaw Pact countries (and Albania) going to great lengths to receive TV from the west, not to mention that Yugoslavia & Romania had used PAL from the start as well. [/QUOTE]
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