Resolutions

from Analog to Digital Media

Analog Broadcast Systems

  • NTSC
  • PAL
  • SECAM

NTSC

NTSC, named after the National Television System Committee, is the analog television color system that was used in North America from 1954 and until digital conversion, was used in most of the Americas (except Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, and French Guiana); Myanmar; South Korea; Taiwan; Philippines, Japan; and some Pacific island nations and territories. NTSC Analog resolution is 720x486 pixels and 30fps.

PAL

Phase Alternating Line is a color encoding system for analogue television used in broadcast television systems in most countries broadcasting at 625-line / 50 field (25 frame) per second (576i). PAL Analog resolution is 720x576 pixels and 25fps.

SECAM

SECAM, also written SÉCAM (French pronunciation: ​[sekam], Séquentiel couleur à mémoire, French for "Sequential colour with memory"), is an analogue color television system first used in France. France, Russia and East German.

SECAM's resolution is 720x576 and 25fps

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Dijital Broadcast Systems

  • NTSC
  • PAL

Dijital Broadcast Systems

Standard Resolution SAR DAR PAR Pixels
DV NTSC 720 × 480 3:2 4:3 10:11 345,600
D1 NTSC 720 × 486 40:27 4:3 9:10 349,920
DV PAL 720 × 576 5:4 4:3 12:11 414,720
D1 PAL 720 × 576 5:4 4:3 16:15 414,720
Panasonic DVCPRO HD 720p 960 × 720 4:3 16:9 4:3 691,200
Panasonic DVCPRO HD 1080, 59.94i 1280 × 1080 32:27 16:9 3:2 1,382,400
Panasonic DVCPRO HD 1080, 50i 1440 × 1080 4:3 16:9 3:2 1,555,200
HDV 1080i/1080p 1440 × 1080 4:3 16:9 4:3 1,555,200
Sony HDCAM (1080) 1440 × 1080 4:3 16:9 3:2 1,555,200
Sony HDCAM SR (1080) 1920 × 1080 16:9 16:9 1:1 2,073,600
Academy 2× 1828 × 1332 1.37:1 1.37:1 1:1 2,434,896
Full Aperture Native 2× 2048 × 1556 1.316 4:3 ~1:1 3,186,688
Academy 4× 3656 × 2664 1.37:1 1.37:1 1:1 9,739,584
Full Aperture 4× 4096 × 3112 1.316 4:3 ~1:1 12,746,752

NTSC vs PAL

4K means 4.000 pixels

Screen Resolutions for Video

By Gokhan Aydın

Screen Resolutions for Video

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