Newsgroups: alt.engineering.electrical
Subject: Re: Digital standards ... international??
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[email protected] writes:

> When the US decided on the digital TV standard did they pick one that
> is universal across the globe or did we just create another PAL vs
> NTSC debacle?

US decided to use their own digital TV standard ATSC. 

European countries designed their own DVB standard set 
for digital TV.

They are basically at least as different as the old 
PAL vs NTSC issue. There are many techniques on those 
pretty similar (for example MPEG2 video compression)
and many things different (used modulation, supported 
image resolutions etc..).  


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