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sigried · May 09, 2006, 10:58 PM // 22:58

I have been having problems with my video card so i went to a local retailer and found a video card but the box says PAL and i live in America and i thought Pal does not work on our systems.

Can someone plz check

Lurid · May 09, 2006, 11:11 PM // 23:11

I don't believe it affects anything, as I have friends who buy regularly from asia when they leave the country on business trips. They don't seem to be having any problems with their components being from other regions. I believe thats only for games and movies.

sigried · May 09, 2006, 11:17 PM // 23:17

OK i see but i heard that Pal runs on 50hz frequency and in america we run on 60hz

Kaguya · May 10, 2006, 07:24 AM // 07:24

If it's a display adapter, then it doesn't matter. Actually they don't even use PAL/NTSC/SECAM anyways. Computer monitors and video adapters are standard all over the world

If you mean a real video card, for watching television on the computer then it might have some problems, although some PC software probably can do the conversion between the formats on-the-fly without problems. Dunno, I don't have a tuner card at all.

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NTSC is based on a 525-line, 60 fields/30 frames-per-second at 60Hz system for transmission and display of video images. This is an interlaced system in which each frame is scanned in two fields of 262 lines, which is then combined to display a frame of video with 525 scan lines.

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PAL is based on a 625 line, 50 field/25 frames a second, 50HZ system. The signal is interlaced, like NTSC into two fields, composed of 312 lines each.