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TOTTEN
05-21-2004, 11:34 PM
what the difference beetween a ntsc game and a pal game?

PapaSKooT
05-21-2004, 11:41 PM
The television industry is dominated by two main standards for TV design: PAL and NTSC. NTSC is of rather low quality and uses weird framerates. NTSC stands for the National Television Systems Committee, and is the color video standard used in North America, Canada, Mexico, and Japan. Some engineers say it should stand for Never Twice Same Color because no two NTSC pictures look alike! Due to the electric system used in the US it was decided to scan the lines across the NTSC TV screen at about 60Hz (or 60 half frames per second) which produced 30 whole pictures every second. NTSC resolution is about one sixth less than that of PAL - about 89 lines less. This may not seem so bad, but divide a sheet of paper into six even parts and chop one off of the bottom and you will have a lot of detail lost. NTSC uses 525 horizontal lines of which only 487 make up the active picture.

PAL stands for Phase Alternating Line, it is the TV standard used for Europe, Hong Kong, and the Middle East. It was a new standard based on the old NTSC system, designed to correct the NTSC color problems produced by phase errors in the transmission path. PAL resolution is 625 horizontal lines, but only 576 of these are used for the picture. PAL is higher quality than NTSC and keeps a sharper picture and remains closer to the original format produced by motion picture cameras. Due to the European electric standards, it was decided to interlace PAL lines every other line at 50Hz producing 25 whole frames every second.

(http://www.divx.com/support/guides/guide.php?gid=10)

In other words, They are two standards of broadcast/TV display. They arent compatible. By Xbox terms, North American systems can only play NTCS games because of the way they display, and how the XBox is coded. And Vice Versa with Pal.

l Maximus l
05-22-2004, 02:09 AM
Good info, but, keep in mind that NTSC XBoxes can play with or against PAL XBoxes on XBL. Microsoft made sure of it :)

TOTTEN
05-23-2004, 11:38 AM
thanks man god another thing that sucks about the usa :cry: