Glossary Term: Color Subcarrier
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A modulated carrier, added to a television signal, to carry the color components.
Examples: In NTSC television, a 3.579545MHz color subcarrier is quadrature-modulated by two color-difference signals and added to the luminance signal. The PAL television standard uses a subcarrier frequency of 4.43362MHz.
See: Video Basics
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