PAL and NTSC?????

Junkyard Dog · February 16th, 2003

I just want to know what PAL and NTSC are and what they stand for. I remember looking it up once before, just can't remeber. And it's bugging the heck out of me that i can't remember. I think it has to do something with region but not totally sure, so i'm asking if someone could please let me know. You can call me retarted if i'm supposed to know this, but don't call me a newb, I have been in the emulation game for over a year now. I just never regestered to a forum, and i took a couple months off and did some other **** besides getting emulated games to work on my computer. So if someone could please fill me in, that would be great. Thanks

Junkyard Dog

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**Betamax** · February 16th, 2003

NTSC
NTSC National Television Systems Committee. The name of the television and video standard in use in the United States. Consists of 525 horizontal lines at a field rate of 60 fields per second. (Two fields equals one complete Frame). Only 486 of these lines are used for picture. The rest are used for sync and extra information such as VITC and Closed Captioning. This is the colour video standard used in the United States and Japan.

PAL
Phase Alternate Line. The television and video standard in use in most of Europe, Hong Kond and the Middle East. Consists of 625 horizontal lines at a field rate of 50 fields per second. (Two fields equals one complete Frame). Only 576 of these lines are used for picture. The rest are used for sync or extra information such as VITC and Closed Captioning.

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Junkyard Dog · February 16th, 2003

Thank you soo much, now i won't have to have this bugging me all day. now i'll be sure to remember it for sure. thanks again

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Mr. Killjoy · February 23rd, 2003

...I'll add:
PAL games run at 50fps and NTSC ones run at 60fps
which is 20% faster

so if you play pal games, try finding a PPF which allow to select NTSC or PAL at boot

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February 16th, 2003	#1 (permalink)
Junkyard Dog Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 61	PAL and NTSC????? I just want to know what PAL and NTSC are and what they stand for. I remember looking it up once before, just can't remeber. And it's bugging the heck out of me that i can't remember. I think it has to do something with region but not totally sure, so i'm asking if someone could please let me know. You can call me retarted if i'm supposed to know this, but don't call me a newb, I have been in the emulation game for over a year now. I just never regestered to a forum, and i took a couple months off and did some other **** besides getting emulated games to work on my computer. So if someone could please fill me in, that would be great. Thanks Junkyard Dog __________________ CPU: AMD Turion64 X2 TL-50 GFX: ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 SPU: SigmaTel High Definition Audio CDR: TSSTcorp DVD+-RW RAM: 1GB DDR PAD: Playstation OS: Windows XP Professional DirectX 9

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February 16th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
Betamax Resident Movie Critic Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland Posts: 9,508	NTSC NTSC National Television Systems Committee. The name of the television and video standard in use in the United States. Consists of 525 horizontal lines at a field rate of 60 fields per second. (Two fields equals one complete Frame). Only 486 of these lines are used for picture. The rest are used for sync and extra information such as VITC and Closed Captioning. This is the colour video standard used in the United States and Japan. PAL Phase Alternate Line. The television and video standard in use in most of Europe, Hong Kond and the Middle East. Consists of 625 horizontal lines at a field rate of 50 fields per second. (Two fields equals one complete Frame). Only 576 of these lines are used for picture. The rest are used for sync or extra information such as VITC and Closed Captioning. __________________ Superior marketing of an inferior product will always win over inferior marketing of a superior product.

February 16th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
Junkyard Dog Registered User Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 61	Thank you soo much, now i won't have to have this bugging me all day. now i'll be sure to remember it for sure. thanks again __________________ CPU: AMD Turion64 X2 TL-50 GFX: ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 SPU: SigmaTel High Definition Audio CDR: TSSTcorp DVD+-RW RAM: 1GB DDR PAD: Playstation OS: Windows XP Professional DirectX 9

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Mr. Killjoy Translator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Somewhere I don't belong (La Rochelle, France) Posts: 7,799	...I'll add: PAL games run at 50fps and NTSC ones run at 60fps which is 20% faster so if you play pal games, try finding a PPF which allow to select NTSC or PAL at boot __________________ Leader of "The Pessimists' Club" CPU: Core 2 Q6600@3GHz - RAM: 4GB DDR2 (Corsair PC6400) VGA: (Frying) GF8800GTS 512MB - Monitor: H233H 23" 1920x1080 Mobo: Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R - PSU: Antec NeoPower Blue 650w 24Mb/1Mb ADSL - Windows 7 Ultimate --------------------------------------------- All ePSXe plugins up-to-date http://mrkilljoy.deviantart.com/