Video formats 75
The standard color video formats are NTSC (United States, Canada, Japan, and
parts of South America), PAL (Europe), and SECAM (France, Russia, and the
republic states).
The following table summarizes the characteristics of the RS-170, CCIR, NTSC,
and PAL video formats.
Y RS-170
INAR 05 CCIR
LIM Y 20 NTSC
PRE19 MA PAL
• North American monochrome video format standard
• 640 pixels x 480 lines
• analog, interlaced
• 525 lines per frame, 485 active lines per frame
• line time: 63.556 μs, active line time: 52.66 μs
• line scan frequency: 15.734 kHz
• pixel clock frequency: 12.2727 MHz
• European monochrome video format standard
• 768 pixels x 572 lines
• analog, interlaced
• 625 lines per frame, 575 active lines per frame
• line time: 64 μs, active line time: 52 μs
• line scan frequency: 15.62 kHz
• pixel clock frequency: 14.75 MHz
• North American color video format standard
• 640 pixels x 480 lines
• analog, interlaced
• 525 lines per frame, 485 active lines per frame
• line time: 63.556 μs, active line time: 52.66 μs
• line scan frequency: 15.734 kHz
• pixel clock frequency: 12.2727 MHz
• European color video format standard
• 768 pixels x 572 lines
• analog, interlaced
• 625 lines per frame, 575 active lines per frame
• line time: 64μs, active line time: 52 μs
• line scan frequency: 15.625 kHz
• pixel clock frequency: 14.75 MHz
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