SECAM
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"Hey," Art muttered and looked over the yob's shoulder, trying to spot a secam or a cop.

In 1956, he patented the SECAM color television system.

Likewise, SECAM is used with a variety of 625-line standards.

Color television broadcast started in 1974, using SECAM color system.

Nonetheless, SECAM was partly developed for reasons of national pride.

Additionally, the SECAM palette consists of only 8 colors.

His inventions include the 819 line French standard and the SECAM color system.

France also introduced the SECAM standard to its dependencies.

SECAM is the first European colour television standard.

This trend gradually propagated throughout SECAM countries, including France itself.

Work on SECAM began in 1956.

The first proposed system was called 'SECAM I' in 1961, followed by other studies to improve compatibility and image quality.

For these reasons the development of the SECAM and PAL standards began.

The French continued with SECAM, notably involving Russians in the development.

France still uses SECAM.

At that time, France intended to be a world leader in television by using higher frequencies through its SECAM standard.

October 1 - First colour television was introduced in France using SECAM system.

However, little equipment has actually been produced that outputs a SECAM analogue video signal.

There are six varieties of SECAM:

Very old SECAM TV sets might not be able to display color for today's broadcasts.

The resulting system is commonly referred to as 'SECAM D/K'.

SECAM did not require such precision for its delay line, and could use much cheaper magnetostrictive metal types.

"Native" SECAM recording was originally devised for machines sold for the French market.

It was tested with SECAM in the early stages, but later the decision was made to adopt color in 625-lines.

After the 1973 war, both television production and transmission facilities were upgraded to color transmission under the SECAM system.