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Formats & Qualities
When you burn video to disc, you must take into consideration not only
the quality you want to use, but also the TV format of the country or
region in which you want to watch the movie disc you burn. The section
below offers information on both of these topics, allowing you to burn
video discs that suit your playback capabilities.
Video Formats
The two video formats (NTSC and PAL) have been adopted as standards
by television broadcasters around the world. The main difference
between the two formats is the number of frames per second they
offer: 30 in NTSC, and 25 in PAL. This difference means that a movie
recorded in NTSC format is unplayable by a PAL player and vice versa.
Fortunately, the question of whether to use PAL or NTSC television
format for your disc can be reduced to the following simple question:
• In which country or region do you plan to play this disc?
Since all countries use either the NTSC or PAL format, knowing the
location in which the disc will be played pretty much resolves this issue
for you. By selecting the desired country or region in CyberLink
PowerProducer, the television format is automatically set.
Note: Generally speaking, the United States, Japan, Canada and Mexico use
NTSC, while Germany, Great Britain, South America, Australia and most of
Western European and Asian countries use PAL.
