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    I brought my TV i had from England to France but i cant set the channels. There is nothing. If i plug a VCR on it and i set the channels on it, they all are in black and white.
    The other problem is thqt i dont have the original remote control its an universal one.
    So do u know what i can do?

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    Amongst the countries based on 50Hz systems, PAL has been the most widely adopted. PAL is not the only colour system in widespread use with 50Hz; the French designed a system of their own - primarily for political reasons to protect their domestic manufacturing companies - which is known as SECAM, standing for SEquential Couleur Avec Memoire. The most common facetious acronym is System Essentially Contrary to American Method, SECAM was widely adopted in Eastern Block countries to encourage incompatibility with Western transmissions - again a political motive.

    In general, since the field and scan rates are identical, you can expect to get a monochrome picture from a PAL video recording replayed on SECAM equipment, and vice versa. Transmission frequencies and encoding differences make equipment incompatible from a broadcast viewpoint. Transcoders between PAL and SECAM, while often difficult to find, are reasonably cheap.

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    F**king ****ers!

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    i dont think its a matter of colour system. i tried a VCR that can be in PAL, SECAM or MESECAM and i still have a monochrome picture.
    i also tried different cables to link my TV and my VCR and no change.
    So... ...

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    Default Re: English TV in France

    Your chances of getting a colour picture are zero unless both the line and the colour standards agree

    United Kingdom
    PAL 625 lines
    25 frames/sec (50 Hz)
    Freq Band = UHF
    Sound Offset : +6.0MHz
    Vision Modulation = Neg

    France
    SECAM 625 lines
    25 frames/sec (50 Hz)
    Freq Band = UHF
    Sound Offset = +6.5MHz
    Vision Modulation = Pos

    France (not in use much , if at all)
    SECAM 819 lines
    25 frames/sec (50Hz)
    Freq Band = VHF
    Sound Offset +11MHz
    Vision Modulation = Neg

    Try a search of SECAM to PAL transcoder , may help

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