SECAM

SECAM is the television standard for France as well as some African and Russian stations. The color is actually recorded in the vertical interval, unlike PAL and NTSC which record in the horizontal ‘blanking area’ SECAM stands for Sequential Coleur avec Memoire and has a video specification of 625 lines/frame and 25 frames/second. All broadcast formats (for example, HDCAM, Betacam SP and Digital Betacam) do not support SECAM; instead a PAL tape must be made, with a standards conversion taking place at the time of airing.
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