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  2. DVD region code - Wikipedia

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    However, an "NTSC", "PAL" or "SECAM" DVD player that has one or more analog composite video output (baseband or modulated) will only produce NTSC, PAL or SECAM signals, respectively, from those outputs, and may only play DVDs identified with the corresponding format. NTSC is the analog TV format historically associated with the United States ...

  3. NTSC - Wikipedia

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    NTSC. NTSC (from National Television System Committee) is the first American standard for analog television, published and adopted in 1941. [1] In 1961, it was assigned the designation System M. It is also known as EIA standard 170. [2] In 1953, a second NTSC standard was adopted, [3] which allowed for color television broadcast compatible with ...

  4. ATSC standards - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) standards are an international set of standards for broadcast and digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable and satellite networks. It is largely a replacement for the analog NTSC standard and, like that standard, is used mostly in the United States, Mexico, Canada, South Korea ...

  5. Broadcast television systems - Wikipedia

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    Broadcast television systems (or terrestrial television systems outside the US and Canada) are the encoding or formatting systems for the transmission and reception of terrestrial television signals. Analog television systems were standardized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 1961, [1] with each system designated by a ...

  6. List of broadcast video formats - Wikipedia

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    This is the standard broadcast frame rate for countries with an NTSC history—mainly the US, Canada, Japan and South Korea. This was the standard format of American TVs due to the displaying of CRT screens which were common place before the wide spread use of digital monitors. Alternating currents are used to time each scan, by which two scans ...

  7. Television standards conversion - Wikipedia

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    NTSC uses 525 lines at 59.94 fields/s (60000/1001) or 30 frames/s The NTSC standard is temporally and spatially incompatible with both PAL and SÉCAM. Aside from the line count being different, converting to a format that requires 60 fields every second from a format that has only 50 fields poses difficulty.

  8. Comparison of high-definition optical disc formats - Wikipedia

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    This article compares the technical specifications of multiple high-definition formats, including HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc; two mutually incompatible, high-definition optical disc formats that, beginning in 2006, attempted to improve upon and eventually replace the DVD standard. The two formats remained in a format war until February 19, 2008 ...

  9. Regional lockout - Wikipedia

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    A regional lockout (or region coding) is a class of digital rights management preventing the use of a certain product or service, such as multimedia or a hardware device, outside a certain region or territory. A regional lockout may be enforced through physical means, through technological means such as detecting the user's IP address or using ...