Video FormatsThere is 3 Main Formats HD, PAL, NTSC. HD is the highest resolution with 720 or 1080 vertical lines in the image. PAL is the UK Standard definition image for a UK TV with 576 vertical lines. NTSC is the US Standard definition image for a US TV which is 480 vertical lines. Now in the digital age we now look at video format in terms of pixels (i.e. High definition 1080; 1920 x 1080 or 2,073,600 pixels). On the diagram is multiple video codecs and their resolution along with their audio codecs and the frames per second.