NTSC stands for: National
Television Systems Committee.
It is one of three main television standards or formats used
throughout the world. The other two formats are PAL and SECAM.
All of the tapes sold on Video-Line are VHS-NTSC. That means
that they are VHS tapes but recorded in the NTSC format that
is common in the United States, counrties of North America,
and a few other countries. If you live in one of the countries
listed below, your VHS video player "should" be able
to play these videos.
Some of our customers that live in countries not listed below,
have been able to obtain video players that will play NTSC format
tapes. Please make sure that your player has this capability
if you are ordering tapes from us.
Countries that use the NTSC format:
United States, Bermuda, Bolivia, British Virgin Islands, Canada,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands
Antiles, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Philippines and Venezuela.
What
is PAL?
PAL: Phase Alternating
Lines.
PAL is the type of video system used in many countries outside
of the U.S. In order for you to watch a video your VCR must
send an electronic signal to your television. This signal is
based upon the AC (alternating current) power frequency in the
country where you are viewing the tape. Here in America our
power frequency is 60Hz. However, in many other countries the
AC frequency is 50Hz. Therefore, we have different television
standards around the world.
America's television standard was developed under the guidance
of the National Television Standards Committee, thus it is called
NTSC. In most of Europe, Asia and Africa the power frequency
is 50Hz so they developed 2 television standards which better
suit the needs of these countries. One of the 50Hz Standards
is PAL (Phase Alternating Lines) and the other is SECAM (SEquential
Color Avec Memoire). While PAL is used in most of Europe and
former territories of the British Empire SECAM is primarily
used in France, Eastern Block and Middle Eastern Countries.
What
is Flash Player?
Experience the future of
Web design today with Flash Player, the Web standard for vector
graphics and animation. View the best designed Web sites containing
Flash-based cartoons, interactive interfaces, and information
graphics from many leading-edge companies, such as Comedy Central,
Sony, and Disney
Shockwave
Director
The Web standard for multimedia
Shockwave Player is the Web standard for entertaining, engaging,
rich media playback. It lets you view interactive Web content
like games, business presentations, entertainment, and advertisements
from your Web browser. You've probably seen Shockwave Player
in action on top business and entertainment sites like Disney.com,
Intel.com, and SharperImage.com, Palm Computing, and thousands
of other Web sites.
QuickTime
5
With more than 17,000 software
titles using QuickTime, and over 400 new QuickTime-enabled products
introduced each month, QuickTime is the standard format for
mutlimedia software. And with over half of the digital video
on the Internet served in the QuickTime Movie format, QuickTime
is the leading technology for digital video on the Internet
today
Internet
Explorer 6
Basics of the Internet If
you're new to the Internet, you may be confused at many of the
terms that come with it, such as hyperlink or URL. Here's a
brief glossary so you won't be lost reading about the Internet.
The Internet is a system connecting millions of computers around
the world. Its best known feature, the World Wide Web, presents
rich content, including multimedia clips and even live radio
and video. You view this content on Web pages by using a Web
browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Typically the top-level page of a Web site is called the home
page, from which other pages branch off. When you start Internet
Explorer, the first page you see is also called your home page.
Getting around on the Internet Each Web page has a specific
address, sometimes known as a URL (uniform resource locator).
You can type the address to go directly to the page. It indicates
a number of things: for example, with http://www.microsoft.com,
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), tells your computer how
to communicate with the Internet computer. (Hypertext is a method
of writing content for the Internet.) WWW indicates that the
site is on the World Wide Web.
The .com suffix indicates a commercial site (as .edu is used
for educational institutions, or .org for other organizations).
The commonest way to move around the Web is by clicking text
or pictures called links, or hyperlinks, which have addresses
coded into them. Your mouse pointer changes to a hand shape
when it passes over a link. You can either browse (surf) the
Web at random or search for a page of interest to you by using
a search service, which can search the Internet for words you
specify.
Also, portal sites (such as msn.com) contain preselected links
to popular pages. Using the Internet safely You may find pictures,
sounds, or programs to download (install) to your computer from
the Internet. Security settings in Internet Explorer help you
download safely, to avoid unreliable software or viruses, and
to make online shopping or e-mail communication more secure.
Also, because some information on the Web may not be suitable
for everyone, with Internet Explorer you can control what sites
are viewable from your computer.
Communicating on the Internet In addition to the well known
e-mail, you can use chat rooms and newsgroups to connect with
people around the world. In a chat room you conduct a real-time
typed conversation with one or more people, and in newsgroups
(sometimes aptly called bulletin boards) you read messages that
have been posted, or post your own. You can even make Internet
phone calls using your computer!
RealVideo
G2
Now with Scaleable Video
Technology RealVideo G2 with technology from Intel is capable
of delivering videos at up to 30 frames per second - a 100%
rate improvement. RealVideo G2 also displays smoother images
by using video post-processing techniques to remove blocky parts
of images. New Scaleable Video Technology (SVT), available with
RealProducer G2 preview, offers: Optimizations for the Intel®
Pentium III® processor CPU scaleability: SVT increases video
frame rate for higher-end processors, and on lower-end machines
SVT discards excess frames for better playback Display size
optimizations: broadcasters can enable size optimizing technology
that displays smaller video for low bandwidth connections, and
larger video screens for high bandwidth connections.
Frame Insertion Technology
RealVideo G2 intelligently creates and inserts additional video
frames to create smoother, more life-like video.
RealAudio G2 80% sound improvement for 28.8 modem users and
100% improvement for 56K connections, versus earlier RealAudio
versions.
CD-quality sound for high-bandwidth connections, such as cable
modems, ISDN, xDSL and LANs.
SureStream
RealAudio and RealVideo dynamically adjust the amount of data
being sent to optimize for available bandwidth, giving you a
reliable, continuous streaming media experience, even in unpredictable
network conditions.
About
Nullsoft Winamp
Nullsoft Winamp is a fast,
flexible, high-fidelity music player for Windows 95/98/NT. Winamp
supports MP3, CD, Audiosoft, Audio Explosion, MOD, WAV and other
audio formats, custom appearances called skins and audio visualization
and audio effect plug-ins. Winamp is shareware, so download
Winamp, try it for free and then kindly register your copy.