Analog Television
Digital broadcast television is viewed as a key market driver for RBB networking. Before considering digital television in more detail, though, it will be useful to review some important characteristics of analog television.
It's possible to argue that analog television is the most prevalent communications medium in the world. More televisions exist in the world than telephones, and the 1995 U.S. census reported that more homes had televisions than toilets.
The Three Standards
Three standards currently exist to encode and transmit analog TV worldwide: the National Television Standard Committee (NTSC), (sometimes referred to as Never Twice the Same Color), Phase Alternation Line (PAL), and Sequentiel Couleur Avec Memoire ...
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