Why in the U.S.A. the P.A.L. system was never itroduced?

[nasadowsk]

I was always under the impression that PAL's 'superiority' was mostly on paper anyway, and that in the real world, <b>at the same line and frame rate</b> PAL and NTSC would look darn near identical.

PAL sets are considerably more complex than NTSC, too I think.

By the time color caught on in the US, broadcast equipment and sets were likely reasonably stable anyway. I sure don't spend tons of time (if any) tweaking the tint on my CTC-7, and we're not talking about a blue to green face shift anyway. On my 60's vintage Zenith portable, I seldom touch the tint control unless it got bumped out of adjustment.

Grasnted most TV sets you see in the US are setup like crap and show crap pictures as a result - this isn't a defect in NTSC though.