The NTSC 3.58 is a pure US and Japanese TV system. NTSC 4.43 is used on PAL video recorders which can play NTSC on PAL and allow the reproduction of American video tape on PAL TV.
NTSC 4.43 is also known as NTSC-J. It is a “PAL-type” NTSC in that it uses the same sub-carrier color frequency as PAL (in comparison to o NTSC-J (4.43) is used only in Japan. NTSC-M (3.58) is used elsewhere in other NTSC countries.
NTSC-J looks slightly better than ordinary NTSC because it has a better signal/noise ratio than ordinary NTSC which uses 3.58 MHz as its subcarrier).
Although NTSC 4.43 uses PAL’s color subcarrier frequency of 4.433618 MHz, the chroma is still encoded as an NTSC signal. Thus although it uses PAL’s subcarrier, tapes recorded in NTSC 4.43 will not display on a standard PAL monitor or play in a standard PAL VCR.
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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.
What are the SECAM variants?There are five varieties of SECAM:
1. French SECAM (SECAM-L)
French SECAM (SECAM-L) is used only in France, Luxembourg (only RTL9 on CH 21 from Dudelange) and Tele Monte-Carlo Transmitters in the south of France.
