NTSC

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NTSC is the analog television system in use in Canada, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, the United States, and some other countries, mostly in the Americas. It is named for the National Television Standards Committee, the U.S. standardization body that adopted it.

[edit] References

• A standard defining the NTSC system was published by the International Telecommunication Union in 1998 under the title "Recommendation ITU-R BT.470-7, Conventional Analog Television Systems." It isn't publicly available on the Internet, but it can be purchased from the ITU.
• Ed Reitan (1997). CBS Field Sequential Color System.

[edit] External links

• Representation of the NTSC refresh rate on a television and on a DVD
• A thorough explanation of the reasons why the field rate was changed to 59.94 Hz when color was introduced to the NTSC standard, including all the magic numbers and mathematics

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