Analog Television System

Describe this section: what it covers and how it's organized.

ATSC ()

• ATSC June 12, 2009 replaced NTSC (completed in Canada by August 31, 2011)

NTSC (National Television Systems Committee)

• Used in North America, South America, Burma, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Philipines
• 1941 first system developed (black and white, no color)
• 1953 second modified version adopted, compatible with existing stock of B/W TV's
• NTSC was vastly replaced by ATSC June 12, 2009 (and completed in Canada by August 31, 2011)

PAL

• To Be Filed

SECAM

• French for Sequentiel Couleur A Memoire (Sequential Color With Memory).
• Analog color television system (The first used in France, and as a result the first in Europe)
• Designed by Henri de France team at Compagnie Francaise de Television (later baought by Thompson)
• SECAM is a compatible system with the predated monochrome black and white (y = luminance)
• A second signal using frequency modulation is added with color infomation (c = chrominance)
• Red and Blue are sent separately (hence the "memory" with one line of information at a time
• 5 Varieties
• SECAM (SECAM-L) French
• SECAM-B/G is/was used in the Middle East, former East Germany and Greece
• SECAM D/K is used in the Commonwealth of independent states and parts of Eastern Europe
• SECAM-H around 1983/84 Line SECAM or SECAM-H introduced a new color identiication scheme
• SECAM-K French speaking African and oversees companies