NTSC
NTSC, along with PAL, is one of the two dominant interlaced scan systems in use in the world today. In interlaced scanning, the lines that make up a video image are displayed in alternate order (rows 1, 3, 5 etc. are scanned followed by the set of even lines). NTSC is based on a 525-line system consisting of 60 fields/30 frames-per-second at 60Hz. It is the official analog television standard in North America, some parts of Central and South America, Japan, The Philippines, Taiwan, and Korea (the map below illustrates NTSC adoption in green).
Adopted by the National Television System Committee in the US, the first NTSC standard was developed in 1941 as a black-and-white video transmission system and had no provisions for color. In 1953 a second standard was issued allowing color broadcasting.
All full-power over-the-air NTSC transmissions will be replaced with the digital ATSC television standard by February 17, 2009 in the United States, and August 31, 2011 in Canada. Find out more about the digital TV cutover.
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