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

["Ronald W. Garrison" <rwgarr@intrex.net>]

SioDallion wrote:
> 
> What is a pal version?

It refers to the standard for TV broadcasting in the UK and most of
Western Europe (not sure about Australia & NZ). The US, Canada, I think
nearly all of Latin America, and Japan use another standard: NTSC.
France, Eastern Europe and a few other places have the third system,
SECAM. (You really don't want to know what all those stand for--if you
had the slightest reason to care, you'd already know what they mean. :-)

As for video tapes, a VHS tape is physically a VHS tape around the
world, but the magnetic recording on it is done in a pattern (format)
that conforms to one of the standards mentioned above.

Bottom line: If you try to play a PAL-encoded player on a NTSC player
(that is, one bought in the US for instance), it won't work--and vice
versa.

--Ron