Table 1 presents all the permissible scanning systems of CEA-770.2-D. A compliant interface shall implement one or more of these permissible scanning systems. Other scanning structures such as HDTV video formats are outside the scope of CEA-770.2-D (see CEA-770.3-C for HDTV scanning formats).
The signal characteristics are defined by a gamma-corrected component set: a luminance video and two accompanying color-difference signals, see SMPTE Standard 170M Section 5.