The television system used in France. It is very similar to PAL (the same frame rate and resolution) but uses a different colour encoding technique in transmission (the colour is FM modulated). This is said to have some technical advantages over PAL, but some think it was imposed in France primarily to ensure that French TV was incompatible with the rest of Europe, ensuring a good market for French-made TV sets. Since most good quality TVs are these days multi-standard, this is no longer a consideration. The colour encoding differences only apply to broadcast signals, so the video on DVDs made in France for French TVs is identical to that on the DVDs made for PAL TVs.