Ever wonder why analog TV in North America is so weird from a technical standpoint? [standupmaths] did, so he did a little poking into the history of the universally hated NTSC standard for color ...

Black and white NTSC is simple – it can, and was, done with vacuum tubes for a long, long time. Color is just weird, though. It runs at 29.976 frames per second, uses different phases of the carrier ...

The inherent differences between NTSC and PAL unfortunately means that European audiences were often treated to the worse version of most video games. It hasn’t been until recently that the NTSC/PAL ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. MPEG-2 transport streams, of which ATSC transport streams are a subset, can be uniquely ...

A DVD formatted for the NTSC market. Prior to digital television, NTSC and PAL were the two major analog TV formats, each with different frame rates and lines of resolution. When DVDs were introduced ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You might not have noticed that no one complains about excessive blanking anymore. Yes, as ...

The growing popularity and availability of high-definition television (HDTV) is creating a small revolution in the video industry. New video systems must be capable of handling the standard National ...

Replay: A couple of years ago the last active NTSC transmitter in the USA was finally switched off. The end of the system, jokingly referred to as Never Twice The Same Colour, was a cause for ...

sRGB (shown above right), Adobe RGB (shown above left) and NTSC all have their own colour gamut (a subset of colours) and each can display a different amount of colours within the subset. The ...

This circuit is able to identify PAL and NTSC video signals. Its output is high for an NTSC signal and low if the signal is PAL. This output signal can be used, for example, to automatically switch in ...