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Broadcast Standards

Broadcast standards like NTSC, PAL, and SECAM define the protocols for transmitting and receiving television signals between countries. However, videos recorded using one standard cannot be played on televisions that use a different standard without conversion. For example, a UK video recorded in PAL cannot be viewed on a US TV which uses NTSC. The three main standards - NTSC, PAL, and SECAM - differ in aspects like the number of lines and frames per second used.

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Broadcast Standards

Broadcast standards like NTSC, PAL, and SECAM define the protocols for transmitting and receiving television signals between countries. However, videos recorded using one standard cannot be played on televisions that use a different standard without conversion. For example, a UK video recorded in PAL cannot be viewed on a US TV which uses NTSC. The three main standards - NTSC, PAL, and SECAM - differ in aspects like the number of lines and frames per second used.

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Broadcast standards mean the protocol followed to broadcast and

receive television signals. Most countries around the world use one of the
three main broadcast standards called as NTSC, PAL and SECAM. Each
of the standard is incompatible with the other.

Example, Video recording made in the UK could not be played on


US standard TV, the reason this is that the UK video standard is PAL
whereas the US video standard is NTSC.

Without standard conversion, it is impossible to view a video


program that is recorded in a foreign country without converting it in
particular format.
These three standards are:

NTSC: National Television System Committee

PAL : Phase Alternating Line

SECAM: Sequential Couleur Avec Memoire or


Sequential Colour with Memory
NTSC

NTSC The first colour TV broadcast system was


implemented in the United States in 1953.

This was based on the NTSC (National Television


System Committee) standard.

NTSC is used by many countries on the American


continent as well as many Asian countries
including Japan.

NTSC runs on 525 lines


NTSC produces 30 Frames per/sec.
PAL

 The PAL (Phase Alternating Line) standard was introduced


in the early 1960's and implemented in most European
countries and in Australia except for France.

The PAL standard utilizes a wider channel bandwidth


than NTSC which allows for better picture quality.
 PAL runs on 625
 PAL produces 25 frames per/sec.
SECAM

The SECAM (Sequential Couleur Avec Memoire or


Sequential Colour with Memory) standard was introduced in the
early 1960's and implemented in France
.
SECAM uses the same bandwidth as PAL but transmits the
colour information sequentially.

SECAM runs on 625 lines.


SECAM produces 25 frames per/sec.

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