Analogue Video Specifications
This repository collects useful specification and technical reference material for analogue television systems and LaserDisc formats, with coverage across PAL and NTSC workflows and related studio, interface, and disc-format standards.
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Television and video formats
- ITU-R BT.1700 - Characteristics of composite video signals for conventional analogue television systems
- ITU-R BT.470-6 - Conventional television systems
- ITU-R BT.601-5 - Studio encoding parameters of digital television for standard 4:3 and wide-screen 16:9 aspect ratios
- CCIR Report 624-4 - Characteristics of television systems
- EBU Tech. 3213-E - Standard for chromaticity tolerances for studio monitors
- EBU Tech. 3280-E - Specification of interfaces for 625-line digital PAL signals
- SMPTE 170M-2004 - Composite analog video signal - NTSC for studio applications
- SMPTE 244M-2003 - Bit-parallel digital interface for NTSC composite video signals
- SMPTE 272M-1994 - Formatting AES/EBU audio and auxiliary data into digital video ancillary data space
Video metadata
- ANSI/CTA-608-E S-2019 - Line 21 Data Services
- EBU Tech. 3209 - Performance specification of equipment for E.B.U. insertion signals
- IEC 60461:2010 - Time and control code
- ITU-R BT.1439-1 - Measurement methods applicable in the analogue television studio and the overall analogue television system
- ITU-T J.63 - Insertion of test signals in the field-blanking interval of monochrome and colour television signals
- Vertical Interval Test Signals - NTSC and PAL definitions
Teletext
- Broadcast Teletext Specification 1976 - Joint BBC/IBA/BREMA specification for the UK Teletext system
- CEA-516 S-2013 - Joint EIA/CVCC Recommended Practice for Teletext: North American Basic Teletext Specification (NABTS)
- ETSI EN 300 706 V1.2.1 - Enhanced Teletext specification
- FIPS PUB 121 - Videotex/Teletext Presentation Level Protocol Syntax (North American PLPS)
- ITU-R BT.653-3 - Teletext systems
- ITU-T T.101 (11/1988) - International interworking for Videotex services
LaserDisc and Laservision
- IEC 60856:1986 - Laservision PAL
- IEC 60856:1986 Amendment 1 - Laservision PAL
- IEC 60856:1986 Amendment 2 - Laservision PAL
- IEC 60857:1986 - Laservision NTSC
- IEC 60857:1986 Amendment 1 - Laservision NTSC
- IEC 60857:1986 Amendment 2 - Laservision NTSC
- US 4,485,483 - FM stereophonic system incorporating companding of difference signal
Compact Disc
- ECMA-130 - Data interchange on read-only 120 mm optical data disks (CD-ROM)
- IEC 60908:1999 - Audio recording: Compact disc digital audio system