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 ...

The image differences between NTSC and PAL games don’t matter much these days, but they used to be a big deal in the late 20th/early 21st century. Since North America and Europe developed different ...

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 ...

Here we are less than a year from the shutoff date of NTSC terrestrial broadcast in the United States. Some will no doubt be happy to see it go, after all this time, and others will mourn its passing.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most LCD monitors, printers, cameras and various other applications are configured to reproduce the sRGB colour gamut as accurately as possible. This means that photographers can reduce discrepancies ...

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 ...