Citroen C3 Picasso rear disk replacement

Very wise. I had a couple of older ones that were little trouble, and I think my son's is an H.

hate french engineering

Absolutely. Only the French could come up with something as horrible as the SCART.

But they did manage to build tehn Eiffel Tower

If you make it out of Meccano it looks exactly the same.

The original - The Maiden - came from Scotland.

Goes back a lot further than that

or SECAM

Systeme European Contre les AMericaines

Au contraire!

SECAM actually stands for Systeme Electronique couleur avec memoir or Sequential Color and Memory.

SECAM is a TV broadcast system invented by French engineer Henri de France and his team attached to Compagnie Française de Télévision.

The whole idea behind SECAM was to rectify the shortcomings of NTSC developed by the USA.

That could be why SECAM has been jokingly called System Essentially Contrary to American Method.

NTSC, incidentally, is often called Never Twice the Same Colour instead of National Television Standards Committee

PAL wasn?t spared either ? from Peace At Last, to Picture Always Lousy, instead of Phase Alternate Line.

Also, Some countries are still using the SECAM system while waiting to switch to digital broadcasting. (!)

The remaining hold-outs are:

They had some form of HD tv long before we did though

Trouble was it took up an enormous amount of spectrum space.

I switched on the telly for the first time about midnight last Friday and was shocked to see men and wummin standing about in the nip....I was shocked....what has the world come to ? ...

It was what appeared to be a good quality picture at 819 lines - I saw a demo set years ago at a Barco monitor workshop.

In theory, 625 line PAL TV should also take up an enormous amount of spectrum space, but for broadcast purposes it was squeezed in to the

That was in the UK, Most of Europe (System B) only used 5MHz for video

Actually it used a shade over 6MHz

And no it shouldn't have used 'an enormous amount of spectrum space'

Line scan is ~ 16kHz, a 500 'pixel' line would be 8MHz.

And then everyone went satellite and digital... ..and now internet.

ISTR about 10Hz for the 819 system. But is is 50 years since I worked with it.. yes, we had a caption scanner at TVC which ran on 819 and we had a lovely HD monitor.

where does the 500 pixel per line figure come from ?