What's better PAL or NTSC (for SVCD)??

[sacred ff]

I have an NTSC DVD player but PAL (S)VCDs are compatible. PAL's resolution is higher, so I'm guessing that when I play them, the quality will be better as well, am I right?

I'm the kind of guy who doesn't care how many CDs are spent, as long as the quality is DVD-most. So what do you suggest, I use PAL or NTSC? Will the image be stretched if I play PAL on my NTSC DVD player or will the player adjust it to be original resolution?

[pyrohydra]

If you're talking about purchasing DVD/SVCDs, pick PAL if available.

If you're talking about converting to DVD/SVCD, use NTSC if the source is NTSC. PAL if the source is PAL.

[Capmaster]

PAL has higher resolution at the expense of framerate. It'll be less smooth in high action scenes. Neither is better - just different.

[energy80s]

PAL is vastly superior to NTSC, but you will see no benefit if the original source is NTSC. If you are able to record on a PAL camcorder and then convert to a PAL DVD, you will have much better pictures (resolution / colour) than a similar NTSC recording.

[sacred ff]

If you're talking about purchasing DVD/SVCDs, pick PAL if available.

use NTSC if the source is NTSC. PAL if the source is PAL.

Thx. My source is NTSC. What I usually encode is anime (always NTSC).

And I forgot that PAL's framerate was bad, so in other words, if I had remembered that when posting this topic, I would have cancelled!

Thanks to all of you who helped.