This article is about the television system. For NTSC regions in videogames, see Regional lockout § Video games. For the Indonesian government agency, see National Transportation Safety Committee. For the organization in China, see National Time Service Center. For the standard-definition digital video mode sometimes referred to as NTSC, see 480i.
Analog television encoding systems by nation; NTSC (green), SECAM (orange), and PAL (blue)
NTSC (from National Television System Committee) is the first American standard for analog television, published in 1941.[1] In 1961, it was assigned the designation System M. It is also known as EIA standard 170.[2]
In 1953, a second NTSC standard was adopted, which allowed for color television broadcast compatible with the existing stock of black-and-white receivers. It is one of three major color formats for analog television, the others being PAL and SECAM. NTSC color is usually associated with the System M; this combination is sometimes called NTSC II.[3][4] The only other broadcast television system to use NTSC color was the System J. Brazil used System M with PAL color. Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos used System M with SECAM color - Vietnam later started using PAL in the early 1990s.
The NTSC/System M standard was used in most of the Americas (except Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay), Myanmar, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Japan, and some Pacific Islands nations and territories (see map).
Since the introduction of digital sources (ex: DVD) the term NTSC has been used to refer to digital formats with number of active lines between 480 and 487 having 30 or 29.97 frames per second rate, serving as a digital shorthand to System M. The so-called NTSC-Film standard has a digital standard resolution of 720 × 480 pixel for DVD-Videos, 480 × 480 pixel for Super Video CDs (SVCD, Aspect Ratio: 4:3) and 352 × 240 pixel for Video CDs (VCD).[5] The digital video (DV) camcorder format that is equivalent to NTSC is 720 × 480 pixels.[6] The digital television (DTV) equivalent is 704 × 480 pixels.[6]
^National Television System Committee (1951–1953), Report and Reports of Panel No. 11, 11-A, 12–19, with Some supplementary references cited in the Reports, and the Petition for adoption of transmission standards for color television before the Federal Communications Commission, n.p., 1953], 17 v. illus., diagrs., tables. 28 cm. LC Control No.:54021386 Library of Congress Online Catalog
NTSC (from National Television System Committee) is the first American standard for analog television, published in 1941. In 1961, it was assigned the...
one of three major analogue colour television standards, the others being NTSC and SECAM. In most countries it was broadcast at 625 lines, 50 fields (25...
in that particular region, such as NTSC and PAL, although from the early 1990s PAL machines increasingly offered NTSC playback. DVDs are less restricted...
SMPTE color bars are a television test pattern used where the NTSC video standard is utilized, including countries in North America. The Society of Motion...
only supporting certain regional technologies (such as video formats, i.e., NTSC and PAL). A regional lockout may be enforced for several reasons, such as...
timecode originates from a compromise introduced when color NTSC video was invented. The NTSC designers wanted to retain compatibility with existing monochrome...
Because the NTSC color television standard relies on the absolute phase of the color information, color errors occur when the phase of the video signal...
play" (EP) or "super long play" (SLP) (standard on NTSC; rarely found on PAL machines). For NTSC, LP and EP/SLP double and triple the recording time...
of the NTSC system. PAL's color encoding is similar to the NTSC systems. SECAM, though, uses a different modulation approach than PAL or NTSC. PAL had...
was only released in Taiwan NTSC-J version was only released in South Korea NTSC-J version was only released in Singapore NTSC-J version was only released...
developed, finally resulting in the NTSC color standard that was compatible with the prior monochrome system. Although the NTSC color standard was proclaimed...
and usually paired with NTSC color. This association explains why 480i is sometimes inaccurately called "NTSC", even though NTSC only exists in the analog...
CCIR System M, sometimes called 525–line, monochrome NTSC, NTSC-M, or CCIR-M, is the analog broadcast television system approved by the FCC (upon recommendation...
more commonly broadcast at (60/1.001), or precisely 59.940059, matching the NTSC SDTV field rate; this and the 50.00 Hz of PAL are still the second and third...
depends on whether the equipment is PAL or NTSC based: 960H represents 960 x 576 (PAL) or 960 x 480 (NTSC) pixels. 960H represents an increase in pixels...
is Japan (Japanese boot ROM, NTSC-J region, NTSC video, 100 V PSU) 1 is USA/Canada (English boot ROM, NTSC-U/C region, NTSC video, 120 V PSU) 2 is PAL regions...
composite video signals, corresponding to the analog color system used (NTSC, PAL, and SECAM), but purely monochrome signals can also be used. A composite...
as "lines horizontal resolution, per picture height"; for example, analog NTSC TVs can typically display about 340 lines of "per picture height" horizontal...
i.e., NTSC-J, NTSC-U/C, PAL or NTSC-C; 20 GB, 60 GB and 80 GB models only) PlayStation CD-ROM (PlayStation region matched, i.e., NTSC-J, NTSC-U or PAL)...
B001B43IUS NTSC Format in the US, distributed by Acorn Media US. Region 1 George Gently: Series 2 DVD Released 25 May 2010, ASIN: B00331RHCM NTSC Format in...
speed (1800–600 rpm for NTSC and 2470–935 rpm for Hi-Vision) CLV encoded discs could store 60 minutes of audio/video per side for NTSC and Hi-Vision (64 minutes...
Boy Color, NTSC/PAL) - 2000 Can We Fix It? (PC, PS1, NTSC/PAL) - 2001 Bob Builds a Park (PC, NTSC/PAL) - 2002 Bob's Castle Adventure (PC, NTSC/PAL) - 2003...
YIQ is the color space used by the analog NTSC color TV system. The name Color Space stands for the following aliases suite or set & pool (used more frequently...
1983, Sony introduced high fidelity audio to videotape as Beta Hi-Fi. For NTSC, Beta HiFi worked by placing a pair of FM carriers between the chroma (C)...
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