On 11/05/2017 10:18 PM, smf wrote: > > On 05/11/2017 18:20, Mia Magnusson wrote: >> At the time it might actually have been a bit hard for the chip >> manufactures to get a PAL TV and a good PAL signal generator, i.e. they >> might have had do order it somehow from Europe, and a signal generator >> generating a perfect PAL image might have been rather expensive. > > Doing a separate PAL and SECAM chip, while potentially being stung for > PAL patent license fees if they do it properly (which if you're TI, you > probably do) Wasn't there the problem with SECAM encoding the color in the frequency while PAL does it in the phase? The latter is way easier to implement on a chip, at least in the time before you could put a PLL there. Gerrit Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2017-11-05 22:02:56
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