what does ntsc aes system mean???

i saw one on ebay for cheap, just wondering?

thanks

NTSC is the video signal that TV's use in Japan and the USA as opposed to the PAL signal which is used in Europe.

I think Pal is 50hz and NTSC is 60hz right?

An NTSC Neo is set up to work with NTSC TVs (US, JPN, CANADA etc.). Where as European Neos work off the PAL video format.

Mike

NTSC stands for National Television System Committee. It's the standard that all American TVs (and a whole heckuva lot of other countries, Canada, Japan, etc) use. So it's an American or Japanese AES (my gut feeling is American but just a hunch).

thanks for the replies guys

DanAdamKOF said:

NTSC stands for National Television System Committee. It's the standard that all American TVs (and a whole heckuva lot of other countries, Canada, Japan, etc) use. So it's an American or Japanese AES (my gut feeling is American but just a hunch).

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I thought NTSC stood for National Television Standards Council? They changed their name?

Actually more countries use the PAL format than NTSC, because it offers superior picture quality (all to do with lines per inch). PAL can be either 50 or 60hz, whereas NTSC runs at 60hz.

PAL is often associated with the 'letterbox effect' of producing black bars at the top and bottom of the TV screen. This is largely because PAL cannot be optomised through RF to run at 60hz (you need scart), and until fairly recently most PAL users used RF for connectivity instead of scart.