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 ...

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 ...

You might not have noticed that no one complains about excessive blanking anymore. Yes, as America’s documentarian laureate, Ken Burns can tell you from painful personal experience, it’s time for yet ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. You might not have noticed that NTSC wasn't the world's first television broadcasting standard.

I'm trying to buy a DVD of a French film, which appears to be available only in the American NTSC format. Can you suggest a way of getting a PAL DVD version without breaking the bank? Nick Markovits ...

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 ...

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 ...