Ever wonder why analog TV in North America is so weird from a technical standpoint? [standupmaths] did, so he did a little poking into the history of the universally hated NTSC standard for color t… ...

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 ...

Nero does it!<BR>you can add a Pal file to a Nero video project make sure Nero is set to NTSC in the preferences.<BR>When prompted if you would not rather switch to PAL mode, just hit no and Nero ...

Keeping a PAL TV would make playing DVDs on a multiregion machine a doddle, and let him play PAL tapes with a PAL VCR for example, but obviously he couldn't tune any NTSC channels on the set.

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).

[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… ...

PAL DVDs can be converted to the NTSC DVD format, although it often requires technical prowess and patience. NTSC DVDs and PAL DVDs are defined as standard definition (SD) media (see DTV).

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 ...

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.

Image: Push Square Sony’s decision to release inferior PAL 50Hz versions of its PS1 games with PS Plus Premium has attracted a lot of attention, but now the service has launched in Japan there ...