access icon free Appendix A: The NTSC signal specifications

Author(s): R. W. Burns
Source: The Struggle for Unity: Colour television, the formative years, p. 313-316
Publication date January 2008

The color picture signal shall correspond to a luminance (brightness) component transmitted as amplitude modulation of the picture carrier and as a simultaneous pair of chrominance (coloring) components transmitted as the amplitude modulation sidebands of a pair of suppressed sub-carriers in quadrature having the common frequency relative to the picture carrier of +3.579545 [MHz] +/- 0.0003 per cent with a maximum rate of change not to exceed 1/10 cycle per sec per sec.

Inspec keywords: optical modulation; television broadcasting; standards; amplitude modulation

Other keywords: suppressed sub-carriers; NTSC signal specifications; amplitude modulation; brightness component; luminance component; color picture signal; chrominance components; coloring components; picture carrier

Subjects: Radio and television broadcasting

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