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					|  Posted: Thu, 30th Sep 2004 13:52    Post subject: |  |  
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					| PAL is the european videostandard.
NTSC is the American videostandard.
 
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					|  Posted: Thu, 30th Sep 2004 14:47    Post subject: |  |  
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					| And one more thing..
If your tv doesn't support NTSC for example, you can't play movies made with this standard, but I think most of the resent tv sets support both NTSC and PAL.
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					|  Posted: Thu, 30th Sep 2004 17:37    Post subject: |  |  
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					| PAL and NTSC are more about TV(video) standards than a vhs or dvd.
They basicly dictate how many frames, what resolution and how the scanline(interlace etc) works.
 
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					|  Posted: Fri, 1st Oct 2004 12:08    Post subject: |  |  
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					| PAL is a higher resolution format for DVD than NTSC. All else being equal, a PAL DVD of a movie should look significantly better than the equivalent NTSC DVD
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					|  Posted: Fri, 1st Oct 2004 20:13    Post subject: |  |  
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					| Just check your TV and DVD player.. and if its compatible with both, then u never have to worry about this again.
I think all the ones that u get today (in Sweden at least) run both formats.
 
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