PAL's color encoding is similar to the NTSC systems.

Even though this usage is common, it is misleading as that is not the original meaning of the terms PAL / SECAM / NTSC.

The same basic format ( with minor differences mainly related to timing and the encoding of color ) is used for PAL, NTSC and SECAM television systems.

In the PAL system, the color subcarrier is 4. 43 MHz above the video carrier, while in the NTSC system it is 3. 58 MHz above the video carrier.

In NTSC and PAL, hue is represented by a phase shift of the chrominance signal relative to the color burst, while saturation is determined by the amplitude of the subcarrier.

Chrominance is represented by the U-V color plane in PAL and SECAM video signals, and by the I-Q color plane in NTSC.

For 4: 3 aspect-ratio broadcasts, the 640 × 480 format is used in NTSC countries, while 720 × 576 is used in PAL countries.

For 16: 9 broadcasts, the 720 × 480 format is used in NTSC countries, while 720 × 576 is used in PAL countries.

Although color gamut can be expressed as three pairs of numbers, the XY coordinates within color space of the reddest red, greenest green, and bluest blue, it is usually expressed as a ratio of the total area within color space that a display can show relative to some standard such as saying that a display was " 120 % of NTSC ".

NTSC is the National Television Standards Committee, the old standard definition TV specification.

Another example is chroma subsampling: the use of color spaces such as YIQ, used in NTSC, allow one to reduce the resolution on the components to accord with human perception – humans have highest resolution for black-and-white ( luma ), lower resolution for mid-spectrum colors like yellow and green, and lowest for red and blues – thus NTSC displays approximately 350 pixels of luma per scanline, 150 pixels of yellow vs. green, and 50 pixels of blue vs. red, which are proportional to human sensitivity to each component ...

Lightworks is a professional NLE system for editing and mastering of movies in 2K and 4K as well as television productions in PAL, NTSC and HD.

In NTSC regions, this seal is an elliptical starburst titled " Official Nintendo Seal ".

NTSC, named for the National Television System Committee, is the analog television system that is used in most of North America, parts of South America ( except Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and French Guiana ), Myanmar, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and some Pacific island nations and territories ( see map ).

In December 1953, it unanimously approved what is now called the NTSC color television standard ( later defined as RS-170a ).

NTSC color encoding is used with the system M television signal, which consists of 29. 97 interlaced frames of video per second.

Most TVs currently sold in SECAM countries support both SECAM and PAL, and more recently composite video NTSC as well ( though not usually broadcast NTSC, that is, they cannot accept a broadcast signal from an antenna ).

Many of these still have analogue infrastructure, and currently analogue transmissions are still found worldwide ( though the United States is currently scheduled to require broadcasters to switch off the NTSC service in 2009 — NTSC may still be a viable transmission means for cable television for several more years ).

NOTE: The FCC version of NTSC, which is currently on the books for over-the-air analog color TV broadcasting, uses a slightly different matrix, which is:

Due to Sunbow Productions ' lack of a US home distributor currently ( it was formerly Rhino, then Sony Wonder, which has shut down ), the cartoon had been stalled in releasing a Region 1 DVD, a company called Exposure Entertainment was supposed to have released the 13 episodes on DVD in North America, in Region 1 NTSC format for the first time, but the overall release was either very rare and limited, or no set had appeared at all.

Flicker fixers sample the NTSC / PAL output from the Amiga and store each scan line from the field currently being displayed in RAM while simultaneously outputting the line alternately with the corresponding neighboring lines from the field stored previously.

There are two main versions of the film currently available, one being the 106 minutes ( NTSC / film speed ) Hong Kong cut and the 90 minute international cut.

The first publicly announced network television broadcast of a program using the NTSC " compatible color " system was an episode of NBC's Kukla, Fran and Ollie on August 30, 1953, although it was viewable in color only at the network's headquarters.

Because SECAM transmits only one color at a time, it is free of the color artifacts present in NTSC and PAL resulting from the combined transmission of both signals.

The joke was that " SECAM " stood for " Something exceedingly Contrary to the American Method " versus NTSC " Never Twice the Same Color " whilst " Peace At Last " or " Perfection At Last " could only be obtained through the PAL system.

Broadcast television requires 6 MHz wide channels, because it transmits 25 or 30 picture frames per second ( in the NTSC, PAL or SECAM color systems ), but SSTV usually only takes up to a maximum of 3 kHz of bandwidth.

For example, regular VHS machines sold in Australia and Europe nowadays can typically handle PAL, MESECAM for record and playback, plus NTSC for playback only ( provided the TV is able to display NTSC's 525 / 30 line standard-most can ).

S-VHS only exists in PAL / 625 / 25 and NTSC / 525 / 30.

Early versions of NTSC rapidly alternated between particular colors in identical image areas to make them appear adding up to each other to the human eye, while all modern analogue and even most digital video standards use chroma subsampling by recording a picture's color information at only half the resolution compared to the brightness information.

The 4: x: x standard was adopted due to the very earliest color NTSC standard which used a chroma subsampling of 4: 1: 1 so that the picture carried only a quarter as much resolution in color than it did in brightness.

The first publicly announced network demonstration of a program using the NTSC " compatible color " system was an episode of NBC's Kukla, Fran and Ollie on August 30, 1953, although it was viewable in color only at the network's headquarters.

The composite video output was NTSC only on all IIGS ; users in PAL countries were expected to use an RGB monitor.

However, older NTSC LDs made before 1984 ( such as the original DiscoVision discs ) only have two analog audio tracks.

It featured a far sharper picture with a horizontal resolution of 425 TVL lines for NTSC and 440 TVL lines for PAL discs, while VHS featured only 240 TVL lines with NTSC.

It could handle analog and digital audio where VHS was mostly analog only ( VHS can have PCM audio in professional applications but is uncommon ), and the NTSC discs could store multiple audio tracks.

The SNES contains a sound module called APU ( Audio Processing Unit ) which is almost completely separate from the rest of the system: it is clocked at a nominal 24. 576 MHz in both NTSC and PAL systems, and can only communicate with the main board via 4 registers on Bus B.

A typical L-750 length Betamax cassette, that yielded about 3 hours of recording time on a Betamax VCR at its B-II Speed ( NTSC ), or on PAL, only provided 30 minutes ' record time on a Betacam VCR or camcorder.

The PlayStation 3 outputs EDTV via its HDMI and component video ( YP < sub > B </ sub > P < sub > R </ sub >) connections ; 480p is only available on NTSC consoles while 576p is only available on PAL consoles.

Because the format was initially designed only for use with the 625-line 50 Hz PAL system, VCR units had to be modified in order to work with the 60 Hz NTSC system.

With NTSC equipment, it is impossible to display a 24p signal directly as the monitors only support the 60i framerate.

When displayed on a standard NTSC TV ( which only displays 60i ) the DVD player will add 3: 2 pulldown to the signal.

Some 24p productions, especially those made only for NTSC TV and video distribution ( e. g. in Canada or the USA ), actually have a frame rate of 24 * 29. 97 / 30 frame / s, or 23. 976frame / s ( 24 / 1. 001 to be exact ).

The foregoing is only an approximation of the true interplay of the digital and analog behavior of the Apple's video output circuits on one hand, and the properties of real NTSC monitors on the other hand.

According to the Kell factor the reduction is to about 85 %, so a 576 line PAL interlace display only has about 480 lines vertical resolution, and a 486 line NTSC interlace display has a resolution of approximately 410 lines vertical.