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NTSC is the video system or standard used in North America and most of South America. Most television engineers will tell you that it stands for "Never Twice Same Color".

Oddly enough other standards such as PAL and SECAM do not have a similar derogatory definition.
Control Operator : " how come the color is off on this feed "

Engineer : " It's NTSC ... you know never twice same color "
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NTSC is the video standard for North America, and is inferior to PAL (Western Europe).
NTSC stands for "Not The Sharpest Colors"
NTSC by The Big H April 29, 2005
An idiot form of television standard, incomparable to PAL (Perfection At Last)
those fuckers in the US use NTSC
NTSC by 8Z4 June 13, 2003
When used of console games, describes cartridges or discs that are intended to run only on machinery made for sale in Japan (historically, console games have tended to have regional lock-out due to greed, stupidity, silly/draconian licensing agreements and/or the perverse joy derived from shafting the consumer on the part of console manufacturers).

Frequently, the NTSC-J version of a game will have more features, different cover art and different content than the PAL (Europe) or NTSC-US (North America), or sometimes, won't be released at all outside Japan
I just got a copy of Rival Schools II and it's the NTSC-J version! That means the minigames Capcom took out in the North American version are still there.
ntsc-j by Vilnius XVIII August 8, 2007
A superb import games website and forum.
Been in a state of conflict recently both sides share equal blame.
Can’t we just all get along?
Give a little take a little.
mkay
NTSC-UK rock my boxers.
indeed
ntsc-uk by GOD Mc'Holy April 13, 2005
An object of worship/godlike status, that can be used to explain events.
"NTSC-uk roxxors your boxxors"
ntsc-uk by Crispin January 17, 2004
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