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Re: FS: PAL videos - The Whole Story & Live at Hammersmith Odeon

From: nsrjm@mednet.ucla.edu
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 09:50:53 -0700
Subject: Re: FS: PAL videos - The Whole Story & Live at Hammersmith Odeon
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SioDallion wrote:
> 
> What is a pal version?


I'm not up on the techno jargon, but I do know that there are 
two VHS formats. One is PAL and the other NTSC. If you're in 
Europe, you use PAL. In the US, we use NTSC. I think the two 
systems were developed to prevent films whose rights were 
questionable from one country to another from being sold by 
anyone other than the rightful owner. I work for MGM, and we are 
currently releasing Digital Video Discs which are encoded 
differently for Japan, the US, Europe, etc. for that very 
reason.

Robb