Definition of NTSC

The dominant television standard in the United States and Japan. The National Television System Committee (NTSC) delivers 30 interlaced frames per second at 525 lines of resolution. It is the sponsor of the NTSC standard for encoding color, a coding system compatible with black-and-white signals, and the system used for color broadcasting in the United States.

Other definitions of NTSC

an abbreviation, refers specifically to National TelevisionSystem Committee that sets TV and video standards; also refers to the US and Japanese video systems that have 525 horizontal scan lines, 16 million different colors, and 30 frames per second (or 60 half-frames (interlaced) per second); competing systems in Europe and worldwide arePAL (Phase Alternating Line) and SECAM (Sequential Color with Memory)

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