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Getting to grips with TV standards in France and elsewhere.
There are three main television/video standards in use throughout the world.
The three standards are not compatible with each other. This means that you can't watch a TV signal (or play a video) produced for one system on machinery that's been designed for another. (There is also a variant of SECAM called MESECAM, which Saudi Arabia uses- but almost nowhere else. Many PAL video recorders happen to support MESECAM, but this does not mean they will deliver flawless playback of tapes recorded in France under the SECAM system - colours generally appear in black and white, and sound can be somewhat dubious.) So how do you get to watch what you want? Multi-Standard EquipmentFor maximum flexibility, use multi-standard TV and Video equipment, that can handle SECAM (for local TV and tapes) along with the signal that will be produced by:
And so on. A multi-standard Video recorder will also allow you to record tapes that you can send overseas in a format that will be readable by VHS machines in other countries. Thanks to the proliferation of camcorders, DVD and games consoles (few of which are ever made available to the French market in a SECAM version), nearly all modern French TV and Video equipment is dual standard, supporting the (broadly similar) PAL and SECAM standards. However, beware of older equipment - pre-1993, say - that will almost certainly be SECAM-only.
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