{"id":179,"date":"2014-01-15T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech.answersnext.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2014-01-15T01:00:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:30:21","slug":"basic-differences-ntsc-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastergadgets.com\/blog\/basic-differences-ntsc-pal\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Basic Difference Between NTSC and PAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NTSC<\/a>Before coming to the differences, it is important to know about NTSC and PAL. NTSC stands for National Television System Committee and PAL stands for Phase Alternate Line. NTSC and PAL are two different types of television signals that are incompatible with one another. NTSC are the analog signals used for broadcasting television signals in the countries of America, South Korea, Japan and some other nations. On the other hand PAL or Phase Alternate Line are the analog television signals used for broadcasting in the countries of Australia, Europe (except France), East Africa and China.<\/p>\n

The basic difference between the NTSC and PAL signals lies in the electric power that is generated for television sets in the respective countries. The electric outputs in America and the other NTSC countries generate a power of 60 Hertz and hence televisions in these countries run on a 60 hertz power supply. Whereas in the PAL countries like Europe and Australia, electric outputs produce a power of 50 hertz and hence the televisions there use a 50 hertz power supply. The two signals NTSC and PAL are incompatible with each other. This means that the televisions which are designed to display only the NTSC images will suffer difficulties in displaying PAL images and the television sets adapted to display PAL images will be unable to display NTSC images. The two formats also differ in the number of complete images that is transmitted per second.<\/p>\n

NTSC broadcasts at a speed of 30 frames per second whereas PAL can broadcast at a speed of about 25 frames per second. Thus an NTSC picture would be more clear and smooth since more images are broadcasted per second. There is also a marked difference in the resolution of the two formats. PAL has a resolution of 576i or 625 scan lines whereas NTSC broadcasted images are of 525 scan lines or 480i. Considering this aspect, PAL is capable of displaying a clearer image than NTSC. The lower resolution in the NTSC signals results in a less color depth and hence the NTSC television sets are mostly installed with tint controllers whereas PAL television sets are not. There also lies a difference in the aspect ratio of the two signals. NTSC broadcasts its images at an aspect ratio of 4:3 whereas PAL broadcasts at a ratio of 1:1.<\/p>\n

The NTSC and PAL formats also mark a difference in the discs that are available in that country. However, nowadays there are players that are compatible with both the PAL and NTSC formats.<\/p>\n

However today in this modern age of electronic advancement most people are opting to use digital television sets which have minimized this difference between NTSC and PAL considerably.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before coming to the differences, it is important to know about NTSC and PAL. NTSC stands for National Television System Committee and PAL stands for Phase Alternate Line. NTSC and PAL are two different types of television signals that are incompatible with one another. NTSC are the analog signals used for broadcasting television signals in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-what-is-guides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastergadgets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastergadgets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastergadgets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastergadgets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastergadgets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mastergadgets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastergadgets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mastergadgets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastergadgets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mastergadgets.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}