The Collapse of PAL is about the loss of connectivity, being forgotten, de-calibration. In The Collapse of PAL (Eulogy, Obsequies and Requiem for the planes of blue phosphor), the Angel of History reflects on the PAL signal and its termination. This death sentence, although executed in silence, was a brutally violent act that left PAL disregarded and obsolete. While it might be argued that the PAL signal is dead, it still exists as a trace left upon the new, ‘better’ digital technologies. PAL can, even though the technology is terminated, be found here as a historical form that newer technologies build upon, inherit or have appropriated from. Besides this, the Angel also realises that the new DVB signal that has been chosen over PAL is different, but at the same time also inherently as flawed as PAL.