AHC/WI: Canada uses PAL

As the title says, the challenge is to have Canada use the PAL television standard, like the UK, instead of the American NTSC standard which it used OTL.
 
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It can't happen organically. PAL was created years later in response to shortcomings of the NTSC format. They will have to make a conscious decision to switch, and I can't see why they would.
I don't really know how much trouble switching around would have been, but even if it's practically zero they would probably still stick to NTSC out of sheer inertia.
 
It can't happen organically. PAL was created years later in response to shortcomings of the NTSC format. They will have to make a conscious decision to switch, and I can't see why they would.
I don't really know how much trouble switching around would have been, but even if it's practically zero they would probably still stick to NTSC out of sheer inertia.

Hence why the US would have to remain on radio for as long as possible.

OR -- Canada comes up with its own TV standard before the US does. As I mentioned on another thread, it's the line standard that is the most important here, and back then line standards were pretty fluid, and the US came close to adopting a 441-line standard (which is only just marginally better than the UK's 405-line standard, where the US would have 383 active lines and the UK 377 active lines). If we can get a 625-line standard working on a 120VAC/60 Hz system (and it's perfectly possible) or higher, then we can have Canada adopt that and stick with it. With a separate line standard, Canada is now free to select any colour TV standard it wants (which, of course, butterflies away PAL) or come up with its own.

OR -- the original RCA specifications for what became NTSC back in the 1950s specifically called for "color phase alternation"; this was dropped from the final standard. Have it retained as part of the NTSC standard, and we thus have something effectively close to PAL anyway.
 
As the title says, the challenge is to have Canada use the PAL television standard, like the UK, instead of the American NTSC standard which it used OTL.

It's similar to the idea of Canada using 220V/50Hz power, or Type C-compatible electrical sockets, or driving on the left side of the road: it's simply not going to happen when there's all of the US's infrastructure down there, waiting to be shared.
 
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