encoding formats?

Question

What format do we use in the UK. NTSC or PAL. Theres money riding on this. Thanks to you all

Answer 1

NTSC is the analog television system in use in Canada, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, the United States, and some other countries, mostly in the Americas (see map). It is named for the National Television System Committee[1], the U.S. standardization body that adopted it.

In the 1950s, when the Western European countries were planning to establish colour television, they were faced with the problem that the already existing American NTSC standard wouldn't fit the 50 Hz AC frequency of the European power grids. In addition to that NTSC demonstrated several weaknesses, including colour tone shifting under less-than-ideal transmission conditions, for these reasons the development of the SECAM and PAL standards began. The goal was to provide a colour TV standard with a picture frequency of 50 fields per second (50 Hertz), and sporting a better colour picture than NTSC.

PAL was developed by Walter Bruch at Telefunken in Germany. The format was first unveiled in 1963, with the first broadcasts beginning in the United Kingdom and Germany in 1967.[1]

Answer 2

PAL-I to be precise. The PAL format that Europe and Australia use is PAL-B/G, which is exactly the same video, but the sound is on a different frequency. So if you took a UK TV set to these places, you'd get a picture but no sound. USA, Japan and some other places use NTSC which is completely different, so a UK TV over there would get neither a picture or sound (or power really as their voltage is different). But for your bet, then yes, we use PAL over here.

Answer 3

Pal

Answer 4

PAL. The question was answered correctly, but I need the points, so thats my 2¢.

Answer 5

PAL

Answer 6

PAL

Answer 7

its pal.