PAL (short for Phase Alternating Line) is a method to encode color in analogue television broadcasting systems.

This colorburst is sometimes called a "swinging burst", since it swings plus or minus 45 degrees line by line (hence the expression "phase alternating line").

Phase Alternating Line, a standard for televisions uses 30 bits per pixel, with a YUV color space.

PAL or Phase Alternating Line, an analogue TV-encoding system, is today a television-broadcasting standard used in large parts of the world.

The SDI video input meets both Phase Alternating Line (PAL) and National Television System Committee (NTSC) standards.

Other countries use Phase Alternating Line (PAL) format, which displays at 50 fields per second, but at a higher resolution (see How Video Formatting Works for details on these formats).

The PAL region (PAL being short for Phase Alternating Line) is a television publication territory that covers most of Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe.

As of 2008, 'Pather Panchali' is available in DVD in both DVD region code Phase Alternating Line and DVD region code NTSC formats.

Unsatisfied with the performance of NTSC and of initial SECAM implementations, the Germans unveiled PAL (phase alternating line) in 1963, technically similar to NTSC but borrowing some ideas from SECAM.

The name "Phase Alternating Line" describes the way that the phase of part of the colour information on the video signal is reversed with each line, which automatically corrects phase errors in the transmission of the signal by cancelling them out, at the expense of vertical frame colour resolution.