well, that's it, after 68 years of entertaining people in the far west and bits of the far east, the United States government has finally pulled the plug in favor of ATSC

we will miss you...

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alright, so it's still used in most devices which can be connected to a television, so it's not quite dead, it's just in a coma with declining health :P

the difference between NTSC and ATSC?

video encoding: M(NTSC), MPEG-2(ATSC)

color encoding: YIQ/YUV(NTSC), YCbCr(ATSC)

screen resolutions: 480i(NTSC), everything except 1080p(ATSC)

frame rates: 59.94Hz(NtSC), all standard frame rates(ATSC)