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by Zardoz84 2667 days ago
Everything PAL. I live on Spain, and got both on Spain.

Think that analogue signals have a lot of tolerance. The Spectrum PAL signal was very far from followiing 100% the PAL standard.

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Back then, a lot of the TVs had frequency and vertical and horizontal hold dials. There was a fair amount of leeway in tuning the device to display the picture consistently.

I would assume nothing needed to be exact because you could fine tune on the fly. I remember when you tuned our 3 TV stations in the UK by dialing the frequency dial to the correct radio frequency. It's been a long time that I don't recall the radio frequencies by perhaps I recall ITV being 68 MHz(?)

"perhaps I recall ITV being 68 MHz" that would vary from transmitter to transmitter, or else they would clash.
Maybe, but our TV's had analogue frequency dials instead of buttons, so we had to tune them manually.