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 ...

Although not exactly "digital" video, the NTSC and PAL composite color video formats are currently the most common formats for video. Although the video signals themselves are analog, they can be ...

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 ...