Setting up a bench - what should I buy?

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Originally Posted by Electronic M

I'm curious how a PAL 1077 would generate it's color bars.

http://www.eeeguide.com/color-bar-generator/

This site seems to indicate that it works just like an NTSC gated rainbow, but doesn't explain how that can be if the receiver switches R-Y phase line by line.
Perhaps PAL receivers don't switch phase if the burst phase doesn't flip? But wouldn't the receiver then interpret the burst phase as 45 degrees from minus B-Y? Very strange.