NTSC: Never Twice The Same Colour (National Television Standards Committee)

PAL: Pictures At Last (Phase Alternation by Line)

SECAM: System Essentially Contrary to the American Method (Séquentiel Couleur Avec Mémoire)

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TLDR: Color TV required a bit more data so they shifted the signal timings.

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