phase alternation line (PAL)

phase alternation line (PAL)

Color video standard pioneered in Europe but also used in many other parts of the world. PAL uses 625 scanning lines per picture, 25 pictures (frames) per second, each frame is made up of two sequential fields containing respectively the odd and the even lines (interlace).

0 0

Improve it

Add an image

Part of Speech: noun
Synonym(s):
Blossary:
Industry/Domain: Consumer electronics
Category: Video camera
Company: Sony
Product:
Acronym-Abbreviation:

Collect to Blossary

Other Languages:

Related terms

phase alternating line (PAL)

Broadcasting & receiving; Radio & TV broadcasting equipment

Television broadcast system used in Europe and Australia & New Zealand, also parts of Asia, Africa and South America.

phase alternating line (PAL)

Consumer electronics; Home theatre system

The television system used in most of Europe, Australia and India. This runs at 25 frames or 50 fields per second and produces 576 visible scan lines. It is often referred to as ...

phase alternate line (PAL)

Software; Video editing

a) European video standard with image format 4:3 aspect ratio, 625 lines, 50 Hz and 4 MHz video bandwidth with a total 8 MHz of video channel width. PAL uses YUV; The Y component ...

Boxcar

Tourism & hospitality; Video camera

closed railway freight van

PowerHAD

Consumer electronics; Video camera

PowerHAD is further improvement of the Hyper HAD CCD technology, where the microscopic lenses focus more light onto the light sensors thus increased sensitivity and reduced smear.

progressive scan

Consumer electronics; Video camera

CCD design that allows the acquisition of both odd and even fields at the same time. Progressive scan makes full vertical resolution possible in Donpisha mode.

restart / reset

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Special mode in which the CCD readout cycle is stopped and restarted in synchronization with an external event. In the Stop mode, the CCD still accumulates picture information.

RGB (Red, Green, Blue)

Consumer electronics; Video camera

The primary colors of light that produce a color video image. In video, RGB refers to a system in which these three primary colors are kept isolated and delivered from the source ...