TVs connected to cable, satellite, or other pay services do not require a TV converter box from this program to receive programs after February 17, 2009. Check with your cable or satellite provider to determine how they will support your analog set after February 17, 2009. Time Warner, Comcast, and Direct TV Cable are already broadcasting digital programming.
The cable companies have agreed to continue to furnish analog versions of the locally available over-the-air digital TV until 2012 or to furnish converter boxes. What they choose to do regarding any other analog TV they presently have, is up to them.
If you have an analog set you will need a converter box. If you have a digital television set or HDTV you won’t since the TV’s themselves already receive digital signals.
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SECAM Video Format Explainedompagnie Française de Télévision (later bought by Thomson) invented SECAM. SECAM uses the same resolution as PAL (625 lines) but transmits the color information sequentially: R-Y on one line and B-Y on the next.
PAL Video Format ExplainedAL is a color encoding system used in broadcast television systems in large parts of the world. The PAL TV standard came into the market in early 1960s Europe. The term PAL describes any video, including digital video, formatted for playback on a PAL TV.
NTSC Video Format ExplainedThe NTSC is responsible for setting television and video standards used in North America, most of South America, and some other countries. The NTSC standard for television defines a composite video signal with a refresh rate of 30 interlaced frames per second. Each frame contains 525 lines and can contain 16 million different colors
What is MESECAM?MESECAM stands for Middle Eastern Secam. MESECAM is not a broadcast standard.
What is PAL 60?PAL-60 is NTSC with the chroma part converted to PAL (both encoding and subcarrier frequency, 4.43 MHz).
What is the difference between NTSC, PAL, SECAM?There are 3 main analog video standards in use around the world.
PAL (Phase Alternating Line)
NTSC (National Television System Committee)
SECAM (Séquentiel couleur à mémoire – Sequential Color with Memory)
Each standard is incompatible with the other two.
