SECAM (Sequential Couleur Avec Memoire or Sequential Colour with Memory color TV standard was introduced in the early 1960's and implemented in France. Except for the color encoding scheme, it's nearly identical to thePAL standard. SECAM uses the same 576 lineActive Area asPAL, as well as nearly all other .
Geography
SECAM is used in France, former French colonies and in several eastern European countries. Because of its great similiarities withPAL, including the same framerate andActive Area, all of the modern video systems, such asDVD,VCD andSuperVHS usePAL internally (for storing the data in the storage media, etc) and just change the color encoding to SECAM when outputting the signal back to SECAM TV.
Capture Information
Since SECAM is nearly identical toPAL, and in most cases even relies on signals generated fromPAL video, you can refer to the entry forPAL to learn more aboutVideo Capture.
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