Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation National Television System (or Standards) Committee
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- initialism television Initialism of National
Television Standards Committee. (American TV standard) - initialism slang Initialism of Never
Twice theSame Color . (Variant of the above, drawing attention to the standard’s shortcomings)
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Examples
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Make your TV commercial in NTSC standard definition (720x486) or higher resolution, upload it, and then others can vote on your work.
Zack Snyder's Watchmen Veidt Advertising Contest « FirstShowing.net 2008
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NTSC is good television played on standard DVD movies.
Black Is the Color of My True Love’s TV - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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This unit also has three audio/video inputs (including a DV, to connect a camcorder), built-in NTSC TV tuner and support for DivX, MP3 and JPEG playback on CD-Rs or rewritable CD-RW discs.
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I inquired with my sources at ABC and, unfortunately, the set will not be available in NTSC on the American market.
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Its not like regular NTSC is some high-fidelity protocol.
January 2004 2004
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Its not like regular NTSC is some high-fidelity protocol.
Take that Tivo! 2004
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“… I was always raised to appreciate the “out of control spies” genre of movies …” just bought a copy of “orions belte” (scandalously still not available on DVD in NTSC format but you can get a used copy on tape or a multi-region player
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If you mean being able to download it and view it on your TV, then that might be a problem – I presume they shot it in NTSC format, and Australia’s TVs are PAL format.
Doctor Who 2009 US Fan Film Lands In April | Fan Cinema Today 2009
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They still sell TVs in NTSC don’t they? blanco_nino
Follow-Up: Progress' 2000 Bush Endorsement at cvillenews.com 2004
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The United States uses NTSC, which is basically the same but different enough to make it incompatible with PAL.
OSNews 2009
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