| Glossary of Technical Terms
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Stands for National Television Standards Committee, which set the television broadcast standard for North America, also used in much of Central and South America, the Carribean Islands, Japan and Taiwan. It is a 525 line interlaced raster-scanned system displayed at 60 fields/second. Of these, about 480 lines contain picture information. See: PAL, SECAM, Television Systems
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