What Are The Differences Between NTSC And PAL?
There are two TV video standards, NTSC and PAL. NTSC is used in North America, and PAL is used almost everywhere else in the world. Most hardware devices (DVD or VCD players) that play PAL video resolution out on a NTSC monitor correctly will cut approximately 24 lines of resolution from the top and bottom of a PAL image. Almost all VCDs are in PAL resolution, as they are manufactured in Asia. This is usually not an issue, because not much details are lost by such truncation. For DVD, The US uses NTSC. It is not compatiable with PAL DVDs. This means that the US dvd players will not play PAL DVDs. The only dvd player that currently support both NTSC and PAL format is the APEX DVD player. PAL DVDs can be also be played on all computers with a dvd-rom without a problem.
