Explore Secam through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Secam meaning
Abbreviation of Sequentiel Couleur à Mémoire, meaning “sequential color with memory”, a TV standard.
Using Secam
- The main meaning on this page is: Abbreviation of Sequentiel Couleur à Mémoire, meaning “sequential color with memory”, a TV standard.
- In the example corpus, secam often appears in combinations such as: the secam, and secam, secam signals.
Context around Secam
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Secam
- In this selection, "secam" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, east, record, recording, signals, developed and standard stand out and add context to how "secam" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include additionally the secam palette consists and adoption of secam in eastern. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "secam" sits close to words such as agonizing, allocates and alves, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with secam
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
History Work on SECAM began in 1956. (7 words)
Additionally, the SECAM palette consists of only 8 colors. (9 words)
A specific stamp was added on the machines saying "PAL+SECAM". (11 words)
At a later stage, countries where both PAL and SECAM signals were available (notably the Middle East, hence the Acronym "Middle East SECAM"), developed a cheap method of converting PAL video machines to record SECAM signals also using the PAL circuitry. (41 words)
French overseas possessions and many French-speaking African countries use the SECAM-K 1 standard and a mutually incompatible variant of the channel information for VHF channels 4-9 (not channels 2-10). (33 words)
It has been the only method of recording SECAM signals to VHS in almost all countries that ever used SECAM, including as mentioned the Middle East and all countries in Eastern Europe. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
At a later stage, countries where both PAL and SECAM signals were available (notably the Middle East, hence the Acronym "Middle East SECAM"), developed a cheap method of converting PAL video machines to record SECAM signals also using the PAL circuitry.
However, the SECAM standard used in France's overseas possessions (as well as African countries that were once ruled by France) was slightly different from the SECAM used in Metropolitan France.
It has been the only method of recording SECAM signals to VHS in almost all countries that ever used SECAM, including as mentioned the Middle East and all countries in Eastern Europe.
PAL and SECAM The PAL and SECAM systems use nearly identical or very similar methods to transmit colour.
The spread of SECAM The adoption of SECAM in Eastern Europe has been attributed to Cold War political machinations.
Additionally, the SECAM palette consists of only 8 colors.
Another explanation for the Eastern European adoption of SECAM, led by the Soviet Union, is that the Russians had extremely long distribution lines between broadcasting stations and transmitters.
A specific stamp was added on the machines saying "PAL+SECAM".
A tape produced by this method is not compatible with "native" SECAM tapes as produced by VCRs in the French market.
A true dual-standard PAL and SECAM video recorder therefore requires two color processing circuits, adding to complexity and expense.
Basic PAL VCRs work better for this, ones that are more sophisticated detect the SECAM signal as "not-PAL" and refuse to record it in color.
Camcorders and VCRs of these standards sold in SECAM countries are internally PAL.
Development Some have argued that the primary motivation for the development of SECAM in France was to protect French television equipment manufacturers.
Digital camcorders or DVD players (with the exception of some early models) do not accept or output a SECAM analog signal.
FM modulation of the color information allows SECAM to be completely free of the dot crawl problem commonly encountered with the other analog standards.
For this reason, to mix two SECAM signals, they must be demodulated, the demodulated signals mixed, and are remodulated again.
French overseas possessions and many French-speaking African countries use the SECAM-K 1 standard and a mutually incompatible variant of the channel information for VHF channels 4-9 (not channels 2-10).
Hence, post-production is often done in PAL, or in component formats, with the result encoded or transcoded into SECAM at the point of transmission.
History Work on SECAM began in 1956.
However, East Germans responded by buying PAL decoders for their SECAM sets.
Common combinations with secam
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the secam 11×
- and secam 9×
- secam signals 5×
- of secam 5×
- pal secam 5×
- secam the 4×
- secam in 4×
- recording secam 3×
- native secam 3×
- in secam 3×