Does it make any difference ?? PAL or NTSC

[MikeB7]

Hi
I have a question. I'm burning a VCD.I have couple of movies which I recored earlier from my Digi Camera.Then I converted the mov. format to Mpeg with PAL system. After I've done the procedure I was curious if it's gonna work in a NTSC DVD player.And it did. So i was surprised that I changed the format and it still worked nin my NTSC player. Does it make any diffrenece if i change the format while I record a VCD ?

Thx

[babyboo]

Perhaps you have a multiformat DVD player that can convert PAL to NTSC on the fly...or perhaps you have a multformat TV that automatically switches between NTSC or PAL based n the input signal

[akbor75]

as far as i know, pal / ntsc refer to the analog signal of the movie. so if you're talking about mpeg's, there is in fact no pal / ntsc format.
i think an "ntsc dvd" is in fact a region 1 dvd. but if you burn it yourself there's no region, so no problem.
(i'm no pal/ntsc expert, so correct me if i'm wrong.)

[bugster]

as far as i know, pal / ntsc refer to the analog signal of the movie. so if you're talking about mpeg's, there is in fact no pal / ntsc format.

Largley correct except for this:-

an NTSC DVD will be encoded with 29.97fps and the full D1 resolution is 720 * 480.

a PAL DVD will be encoded with 25fps and the full D1 resolution is 720 * 576.

A DVD player that can handle both PAL and NTSC (which is most) will output NTSC (analog) signals when it sees a DVD that matches the 1st description above and output PAL (analog) signals when it sees a DVD that matches the second.

Some players can take either format and convert internally to PAL or NTSC (though how they handle framerate differences I don't know)

[turk690]

The framerates don't change. Only the color system does. One of my output devices is an Epson EMP-50 LCD projector that has a portion of the menu that states detail about the detected sync rates of the input signals. Even if NTSC>PAL option is chosen on the DVD player which has an NTSC disc in it the H and V values remain the same so it means the framerates didn't change. Interestingly it also shows whether progressive scan signals are being received: for NTSC H is 15.734KHz interlaced and 31.469KHz progressive.

[energy80s]

This is known as PAL60.

[SatStorm]

There is also the opposite: NTSC 50.

[bugster]

Just for interest
Ok, so those forum members from the USA that own DVD players that 'convert PAL to NTSC', does this mean they output NTSC-50 and if so, do most US TV's accept this kind of signal?

I know many (most?) European TV's handle either NTSC or PAL-60 (as well as PAL), if not both (all) formats.