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 ...

Generally, when trying to implement some protocol, you are constrained by your hardware and time. But for someone like [EMMIR], that’s not enough. For example, NTSC-CRT is a video signal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...