SECAM, also written
SÉCAM (,
Séquentiel couleur avec mémoire, French for "Sequential Color with Memory"), is an
analog color television system first used in
France. A team led by
Henri de France working at
Compagnie Française de Télévision (later bought by Thomson, now
Technicolor) invented SECAM. It is, historically, the first
European color television standard. SECAM is in the process of being phased out and replaced by
DVB.