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 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 ...

We’ve often said that some technological advancements seemed like alien technology for their time. Sometimes we look back and think something would be easy until we realize they didn’t ...

WASHINGTON — Ever hear of the “color wars?” If not, read on. Though not covered in mainstream history books, these wars cost millions of dollars and untold thousands of man hours to prosecute before ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...