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 ...

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 ...

It depends on whether of not the tuner supports PAL and/or NTSC. I have seen LCD TVs that do not support NTSC.

A DVD formatted for the NTSC market. Prior to digital television, NTSC and PAL were the two major analog TV formats, each with different frame rates and lines of resolution. When DVDs were introduced ...

Following are the encoding variables for the analog NTSC, PAL and SECAM broadcasting and recording formats. For digital formats, see video format. PAL and SECAM are still used in some countries. VHS ...

This circuit is able to identify PAL and NTSC video signals. Its output is high for an NTSC signal and low if the signal is PAL. This output signal can be used, for example, to automatically switch in ...