Granted NTSC drifts, but I've never heard one good explination as to why PAL would correct the 'drift', or why PAL wouldn't need a tint control. I suspect lack of tint control is more a function of PAL being so much more complex that it'd cost too much to add, than any real feature of PAL.
I honestly don't get the point behind phase switching. It was considered for NTSC and dropped because of flicker/fringing effects. People say it 'corrects color errors' but can never really explain how. IMHO, PAL was created more for the reasons SECAM came about, i.e. it was something that wasn't NTSC.
SECAM - now that's a bizzare system. Does anyone even understand it? Do the french understand it, even?
