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Originally Posted by DVtyro
So East Germany started broadcasts in Berlin in 1952 in System D, but switched to System B in 1957, fully harmonizing its frequency bands with the Western standards in 1960. I wonder why did they do it. Was it a quid pro quo for West Germany accepting the 625-line standard introduced by the Soviets, for the reason that West Germany could not completely split away from East Germany, so choosing the same standard (if only just a little different, 7-MHz instead of 8-MHz) was imperative.
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I think they did it so the West Germans could view their TV... Of course the Easterners could view W, German TV and having a TV antenna pointing westwards was dangerous to do!
. E Germany used 625 line system B and Secam colour was added from the late 60's or early 70's, not compatible with W German Pal so unless you had a Pal Secam colour set
transborder viewing was done in black and white.Uhf was system G Secam I think, maybe H but the difference was in the vestigial sideband width channel bandwidth on Uhf was a common 8 MHz.