Before we get into a huge NTSC versus PAL fracas in the comments ... His chief gripe centers around the National Television System Committee’s decision to use a frame rate of 29.97 fps rather ...

To fully understand the NTSC, PAL, and SECAM encoding and decoding processes, it is helpful to review the background of these standards and how they came about. The first color television system was ...

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 ...

and at the end of the day the National Television Standards System Committee did an admirable job working within the constraints they were given. Think NTSC is weird compared to PAL? You’re ...