watch PAL (S)VCD on NTSC TV

[vkuznet]

Hi,
I have NTSC TV and dvd player which can play
all sort of disk (pioneer dv-533).
I'm wondering why I can watch PAL VCD and cannot do the same with SVCD (and DVD). I mean cannot watch since I got black and white picture and running frames on TV when I put PAL SVCD or DVD. But this is not the case of PAL VCD, everything is fine!?

The only different I can imaging that VCD use fixed bitrate and SVCD(DVD) variable one. But in either case PAL is 25fps and NTSC 29fps?

Can anyone explain that.
Thanks,
Valentine.

[antonv]

From what I know, most DVD players are capable in converting VCD to the format of what DVD player has (for example Pal VCD to NTSC). I guess, this is not the case with SVCD in your DVD player (SVCD has different encoding type then VCD).

From physics: At most, human eye can comprehend 24 frames per second and it is what you see on TV in all of the formats. So as The frame rate as you view it on TV is the same (24 fps) and DVD converts to it anyway, the only difference in format is color and resolution. For VCD, It has the color structure or the format your DVD is capable to convert.