Moving image formats

A standards converter is a device that converts a video signal (e.g. NTSC or PAL SECAM formats ) of a television standard to another. A standards converter is required, eg, in order to play a video from America with a German video players.

One such device is basically a TBC, in addition, for example, image lines and frame interpolation can be performed using the. The latter is a still not satisfactorily solved challenge, even with expensive equipment that are used by professional users such as broadcasters. The result is the standard material frequently converted either a jerk ( NTSC to PAL) or close Rende movements ( PAL to NTSC).

Add VHS machines built standard converters are suitable only as a rule, to make a foreign material standards at all with your own system visible. Here only the color transmission system is changed frequently. Thus, a signal that differs only in the speed of temporal sequences of PAL. Tolerant televisions can display this signal but still.

Today, there are both standard analog converter ( BBD ) method as well as digital standards converter ( Domino converter, Aurora World Converter ).