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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: NTSC, PAL, Video, SECAM, Interlaced video, 24p, 1080p, Moving image formats, PALplus, MovieCD, Broadcast-safe, SMPTE 292M, 576i, PAL region, Sound-in-Syncs, 720p, NTSC-C, PAL-M, D-MAC, 480i, System B, D2-MAC, System M, IFrame, 1080i, 480p, B-MAC, C-MAC, Processing amplifier, A-MAC, 576p, IRE, Burst phase, E-MAC, 8K Video Format, 2540p, Joint Level Interface Protocol. Excerpt: NTSC, named for the National Television System Committee, is the analog television system that is used in most of North America, most of South America (except Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and French Guiana), Burma, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, and some Pacific island nations and territories (see map). Most countries using the NTSC standard, as well as those using other analog television standards, are switching to newer digital television standards, of which at least four different ones are in use around the world. North America, parts of Central America, and South Korea are adopting the ATSC standards, while other countries are adopting or have adopted other standards. The first NTSC standard was developed in 1941 and had no provision for color television. In 1953 a second modified version of the NTSC standard was adopted, which allowed color television broadcasting compatible with the existing stock of black-and-white receivers. NTSC was the first widely adopted broadcast color system. After nearly 70 years of use, the vast majority of over-the-air NTSC transmissions in the United States were replaced with digital ATSC on June 12, 2009, and will be by August 31, 2011, in Canada in most markets. Despite the shift to digital broadcasting, standard definition television in these countries continues to follow the NTSC standard in terms of frame rate and number of lines of resolution. In the United States a small number of short-ran...
