| NTSC It's
true--there was a time when TV was just black and white. Eventually, color
TV took over, and the Federal Communications Commission established the
NTSC standard of 525 lines of resolution per second for broadcasts in the
United States. The NTSC standard combines blue, red, and green signals
with an FM frequency for audio. NTSC should go the way of the dinosaur,
however, with the impending arrival of HDTV, or high-definition TV. The
FCC has ordered TV stations to start transmitting HDTV signals starting in
2003. |