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Okay, novice alert!
just wondering what NTSC means and is it the same as region 1??

any help would be appriciated

basically NTSC is the screen format. Here in the UK we have PAL, in the states you have NTSC (which if I remember correctly has less lines per screen than PAL)

You may have problems playing a NTSC format disc on older TV`s. Most new ones can cope with NTSC

I was always told it stood for
Never
The
Same
Colour twice...... but i think it refers to the standard used in the states - the opposite of our PAL colour system here... but the gurus here will put you straight.....

thanx very much

National Television Standards Committee, the 525-line American/Japanese video standard. US NTSC works at 60 fields per second and has the colour subcarrier at 3.58Mhz. Some UK PAL TVs only replay NTSC with a colour subcarrier at 4.43Mhz, this will not replay American Pictures.
PAL: From Phase Active Line, the 625-line technical video standard for the UK, most of europe, Australia and New Zealand.
PAL 60: PAL colour information, running at 60 fields per second ( regular PAL is 50 ) sometimes used when replaying American DVDs or VHS video tapes. Almost all TVs made in here in the last ten years or so should have no problem replaying PAL 60. The quality of a PAL 60 image from DVD should be about the same as a raw NTSC one.
All this information was taken from the `DVD Glossary` section of one of my fave magazines. Total DVD
Gav

The only other thing worth adding is that NTSC is *not* the same thing as Region 1. Whether a disc is PAL or NTSC has absolutely nothing to do with the region coding - Japanese DVDs, for example, are NTSC and Region 2.


Mike