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** Later, incompatible rival standards ('''PAL''' - Phase Alternate by Line and '''SÉCAM''' - Séquence de Couleur Avec Mémoire, introduced to Europe circa-1967) were more robust. They have their own satirical acronyms, for instance the Anglo-West German '''PAL''' is '''P'''eace '''A'''t '''L'''ast or '''P'''erfect '''A'''t '''L'''ast while the French '''SÉCAM''' '''S'''hows '''E'''very '''C'''olour '''A'''ll '''M'''urky, '''S'''omething '''E'''ssentially '''C'''ontrary to the '''A'''merican '''M'''ethod or '''SE'''cond '''C'''olor '''A'''lways '''M'''agenta.

** In most '''NTSC''' countries (including South Korea but not Japan, which exports its own incompatible system) the successor for terrestrial digital television was '''ATSC''' (named for the Advanced Television Systems Committee). The new system has a few issues, including susceptibility to interference from impulse noise which has rendered the once valuable low-VHF channels all but worthless today. The era of picking up fuzzy analogue VHF TV stations from "up to 100 miles, depending on terrain" with huge antennas is over, but at least it's '''A'''lways '''T'''he '''S'''ame '''C'''olour.

 

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