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9.9 Supported Video System Formats

The types of video signal formats Phantom camera's will transmit to a monitor, include:

Analog NTSC

When selected the camera will transmit the NTSC (National Television System Committee) video

signal format; 59.94 half frames (called fields) per second and 525 lines per field, (480 lines in

each field are the image, and the last 45 are the "vertical blanking interval" (VBI), designed to

give the electron gun time to reposition itself from the bottom of the last field to the top of the

next), to an attach compatible monitor.

NOTE

NTSC is the analog television system in use in Canada, Japan, South Korea, the United

States, and some other places, mostly in the Americas.

Analog PAL

When selected the camera will transmit the PAL (Phase Alternating Line) video signal format; 25

fields per second and 625 lines per field, to an attached compatible monitor.

NOTE

PAL is the analog television system used in most of Western Europe, Australia and other

countries.

HDTV 720p60

When selected the camera will transmit 720 lines of vertical resolution, with a horizontal

resolution of 1280 pixels and an aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a horizontal (display) resolution of

1280 lines and a frame resolution of 1280 × 720 or about 0.92 million pixels; progressively

scanned, (non-interlaced); at a frame rate of 60Hz to an attached HD compatible monitor.

HDTV 720p59.9

When selected the camera will transmit 720 lines of vertical resolution, with a horizontal

resolution of 1280 pixels and an aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a horizontal (display) resolution of

1of 1280 lines and a frame resolution of 1280 × 720 or about 0.92 million pixels; progressively

scanned, (non-interlaced); at a frame rate of 59.94Hz to an attached HD compatible monitor.

HDTV 720p50

When selected the camera will transmit 720 lines of vertical resolution, with a horizontal

resolution of 1280 pixels and an aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a horizontal (display) resolution of

1280 lines and a frame resolution of 1280 × 720 or about 0.92 million pixels; progressively

scanned, (non-interlaced); at a frame rate of 50Hz to an attached HD compatible monitor.