Hello All,
relative newby here and I've found this site in my seemingly endless quest for an answer to the question:
Should I buy a NTSC or PAL camera for filming documentaries/tv series?

For all my reading, the final issue seems to be where I will be hoping to get this viewed, which at present is likely to be the biggest market, TV in the US (it is a travel channel type series). In which case it will be initially easier and cheaper to film in NTSC. And so I'm leaning toward NTSC.

I would also like to see it air on cable in other parts of the world so it seems inevitable that I will need to have one original version and one converted version, eventually anyway. In this case, the NTSC to PAL conversion seems to lose a lot of quality... Is it the same when you go the other way? Does it really matter to the channels what format they receive the original in?

If anyone has been in a similiar situation would love to hear your thoughts...