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  • initialism from French: Sequentiel Couleur avec Mémoire, meaning “sequential color with memory”, a TV standard.

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  • The French use a system called SECAM which is arguably better still.

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  • The Catholic bishops 'symposium, known as SECAM, said countries such as Kenya, Uganda,

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  • Thanks to eBay, I've been able to obtain ancient VHS PAL and SECAM pre-records of Joy Fleury's Tristesse et Beauté ("Sadness and Beauty," 1985) and Robert Van Ackeren's Die Venusfalle ("The Venus Trap," 1988), both featuring Roussel, neither of which was ever exported to America.

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  • Well, everyone able to play PAL or SECAM tapes, anyway.

    Always Crashing Into Myriem Roussel 2009

  • Well, everyone able to play PAL or SECAM tapes, anyway.

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  • The film was given a DVD release in Italy, which would certainly have yielded a much superior picture to the French SECAM crap I watched, but it would also have stuck me with Italian dubbed audio; at least on the tape, the original dialogue recording was intact.

    Archive 2009-02-08 2009

  • Thanks to eBay, I've been able to obtain ancient VHS PAL and SECAM pre-records of Joy Fleury's Tristesse et Beauté ("Sadness and Beauty," 1985) and Robert Van Ackeren's Die Venusfalle ("The Venus Trap," 1988), both featuring Roussel, neither of which was ever exported to America.

    Always Crashing Into Myriem Roussel 2009

  • Wireless playback on a NTSC, Pal and SECAM TV set from any multimedia sources, such as iPod, digital camcorder, digital camera, PMP, etc

    iViewer Wireless TV Viewer – Stream Your Vtuff To Your Television | Impact Lab 2007

  • The film was given a DVD release in Italy, which would certainly have yielded a much superior picture to the French SECAM crap I watched, but it would also have stuck me with Italian dubbed audio; at least on the tape, the original dialogue recording was intact.

    Always Crashing Into Myriem Roussel 2009

  • All of Europe uses the PAL or SECAM system and their descendant HDTV versions, and all of them use either 50 interlaced fields per second or 25 progressive frames per second.

    3-D Animation and 48 Frames Per Second Steve Hulett 2008

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