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The National Television System(s) Committee (NTSC) format is the analog television system in use in Canada, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, the United States, and some other countries, mostly in the Americas. The NTSC format consists of 29.97 interlaced frames of video per second.

Countries that do not use NTSC use the PAL format.

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