Television reception

The analogue television supports the following television standards:

• NTSC: NTSC is most common in North and South America and in Japan. NTSC is an analogue television standard for color transmission.

  NTSC stands for "National Television Standards Committee".

• PAL: PAL is most common in Europe.

  PAL is also used in Australia and in most African and Asian countries (except for Japan). PAL is common in all countries that do not have  NTSC and SECAM.

  PAL is an analogue television standard for color transmission.

  PAL is a further development of NTSC. As with NTSC, the TV pictures are transmitted in lines. PAL, however, evens out color faults.

  PAL stands for "Phase Alternating Line".

• SECAM: SECAM is most common in France and Eastern Europe.

  SECAM stands for "Sequentielle Couleur a Memoire", i.e. "sequential color memory".

Digital television supports data transmission via MPEG.

MPEG stands for "Motion Picture Experts Group". MPEG is the designation of a data compression standard for image signals.