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MattZani

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Ps3 Ntsc Vs Pal
« on: April 03, 2007, 07:47:00 AM »
there is no PAL or NTSC, the region would be wrong for DVD's and Blu-Ray. there's no way to change the coding, and the PS3 is only £425, trust me, i bought one! its easier to just accept the price, or wait a couple months.

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SuRgEx360

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Ps3 Ntsc Vs Pal
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2007, 07:00:00 AM »
is there any speed issues with pal vs ntsc PS3's like there used to be with the SNES,megadrive and N64,~PS1 etc.

imported consoles would allways run faster than PAL versions.

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wezlyons

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Ps3 Ntsc Vs Pal
« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2007, 05:26:00 AM »
QUOTE(SuRgEx360 @ Aug 2 2007, 02:36 PM) View Post

is there any speed issues with pal vs ntsc PS3's like there used to be with the SNES,megadrive and N64,~PS1 etc.

imported consoles would allways run faster than PAL versions.

No, PAL and NTSC refers more to region type than tv standard these days, it wasn't the consoles that ran slower it was the fact that PAL tvs ran at 50hz instead of 60hz like NTSC which meant that developers had to recode the games to run at 50hz resulting in slower games and black borders, the borders being a result of PAL operating at 720 x 486 whereas NTSC was only 648 x 486.
Unless you are planning on running your PS3 on a tv made more than 15 years ago you shouldn't have a problem.
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