Early color TV in Italy

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In reality the issues was combination of cost and belief that NTSC could be improved ...primarily to overcome the problem of phase errors and in Europe the decision to bring colour to the 625/50 standard when it was introduced as both France and UK had different monochrome standards in place.

Politics played a part with the competition between SECAM and PAL and it took sometime for the technical issues for both to be resolved.

Early PAL and SECAM versions both had serious issues.

In reality NTSC on 625/50 (or even 405/50 UK standard) would have worked fine ..but it is all history now... the analogue era is ending everywhere.

But we have been through the same debate with digital broadcasting ATSC vs DVB etc.