SECAM Sequential Couleur avec Mémoire Also called Système Électronique Couleur Avec Memoire, or
sequential color with memory. Analog color television broadcast standard developed in the mid-1960s and used in France, its former possessions, and some eastern European countries, including former members of the Soviet Union; offers 819 lines of horizontal resolution. SECAM is one of three main television standards; the other two are
NTSC and
PAL.