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Henri Georges de France (
7 September 1911 Paris –
29 April 1986 Paris) was a pioneering
French television inventor. His inventions include the
819 line French standard and the
SECAM color system. He was also apparently behind the
HD-MAC high-definition standard.
On
December 6,
1931, De France founded the Compagnie Générale de Télévision in
Le Havre, making television sets with a vertical definition of 60 lines. In February
1932, De France made several transmissions over a distance of 7km from the "Radio-Normandie" station in
Fécamp. These signals were received by a few people located over 100km away. In October
1932, he achieved a definition of 120 lines. In
1956, he patented the SECAM color television system. On
October 1,
1967 at 2:15pm
CET,
la deuxième chaîne switched from black and white to color using SECAM.
De France is interred at
Jarnac, the same town where former president
François Mitterrand is buried.
The public passage near
France Télévisions buildings in
Paris is named
Esplanade Henri de France.
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