The digital standards (ATSC and DVB) basically provide a medium over which bits can be delivered - the over-the-air equivalent of an Ethernet cable. PAL, NTSC, ATSC and DVB are all broadcast standards, and as such they specify the radio frequencies to be used, the modulation techniques, error correction formats, etc. The European version of the HD broadcast standard (i.e., their version of North America's 'ATSC') is called DVB ('Digital Video Broadcasting').

So these terms are getting entrenched in the lexicon of the industry as a shortcut for frame rates.īut in a video editor, if you choose an output format that's labelled 'PAL' or 'NTSC', you're certainly not going to get HD video at 60p, which is what the OP was trying to do.īTW, what do they call the new PAL standard - is that EURO €? It's not a correct use of the term, but other than 'PAL' and 'NTSC', I don't know of any other easy generic term to refer to these frame rates (or the regions in which they apply).

What it's really doing is letting you choose between the two alternate sets of frame rates - the choice has nothing whatsoever to do with resolution, which controlled via a different setup option. For example I've just been looking at the instruction manual for the GoPro Hero 3 cameras, and they have a setup option which allows you to switch between 'NTSC' and 'PAL' modes. I think that a lot of the confusion comes from from the fact that many cameras still use PAL and NTSC as terms to refer to 25/50 vs. PAL and NTSC are completely irrelevant to HD and therefore to commercial blurays, which are HD

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