Many projects on these pages do clever things with video. Whether it’s digital or analogue, it’s certain our community can push a humble microcontroller to the limit of its capability. But sometimes ...

Ever wonder why analog TV in North America is so weird from a technical standpoint? [standupmaths] did, so he did a little poking into the history of the universally hated NTSC standard for color ...

WASHINGTON — Ever hear of the “color wars?” If not, read on. Though not covered in mainstream history books, these wars cost millions of dollars and untold thousands of man hours to prosecute before ...

A DVD formatted for the NTSC market. Prior to digital television, NTSC and PAL were the two major analog TV formats, each with different frame rates and lines of resolution. When DVDs were introduced ...

Here we are less than a year from the shutoff date of NTSC terrestrial broadcast in the United States. Some will no doubt be happy to see it go, after all this time, and others will mourn its passing.

Replay: A couple of years ago the last active NTSC transmitter in the USA was finally switched off. The end of the system, jokingly referred to as Never Twice The Same Colour, was a cause for ...

Most LCD monitors, printers, cameras and various other applications are configured to reproduce the sRGB colour gamut as accurately as possible. This means that photographers can reduce discrepancies ...

This circuit is able to identify PAL and NTSC video signals. Its output is high for an NTSC signal and low if the signal is PAL. This output signal can be used, for example, to automatically switch in ...

sRGB (shown above right), Adobe RGB (shown above left) and NTSC all have their own colour gamut (a subset of colours) and each can display a different amount of colours within the subset. The ...