If i can play Half Life at 50fps on one amchine and 60fps on another, why would it matter.<P>As for the Pal vs. NTSC debate i have a 17 yr Old pal TV, that looks just as good or better than this ...

In Europe, that format was called PAL and had a refresh rate of 50hz and a frame rate of 25 fps. In North America, the format was NTSC, and had a higher refresh rate of 60hz and a standard frame ...

NTSC, which is more prevalent in countries like the United States and Japan, runs at around 30 frames per second. Both have their benefits, but when it comes to gaming, players unsurprisingly ...

If NTSC loses any detail over digital perfection, then it would be sure to show.<P>Same for PAL, any inherient disadvantages in the PAL format would be made obvious by the conversion.

PAL isn’t a worse standard than NTSC, exactly — it runs at a slower refresh rate but has a higher resolution, with 576 vertical lines to NTSC’s 480.

The thing we often call NTSC was among the first widely-deployed colour television system on the planet. It’s easy to forget, when we’re poking fun at it for its dubious hue and saturation stability, ...

PAL and NTSC Halo 2 builds 'play nice' Bungie's latest weekly update gives us reason to be cheerful: we can definitely kill foreigners, and the process might throw up some slow-motion action.

Nintendo's NTSC consoles don't output RGB, they use S-Video, so you got wrong colours when using a RGB cable on a NTSC console (respectively playing a NTSC game on a PAL console).

Unfortunately, it seems like the classic games will use a mix of ROMS instead, with some confirmed to be based on the PAL 50Hz versions and others on the NTSC 60Hz versions.

SYNDiCATE supposedly has a Wii patcher that plays NTSC titles on PAL Wii units, which is just great for all those PAL-rocking countries that have Wiis, as well as those not yet fit to suffer from ...

[Derecho] grabbed a PAL format Super Nintendo but wanted to make it play nicely with a 60 Hertz NTSC screen. His hack added a single switch to choose between 50 Hz and 60 Hz. Take a look at the ima… ...

For folk in North America it's very unlikely you'll have a TV capable of displaying a PAL video signal properly in which case you'll want some kind of external PAL-NTSC converter.