PAL

Phase Active Line, the standard for the UK, Europe and Australasia, using 625 video lines.

Although PAL has a higher vertical resolution than NTSC, it has fewer frames displayed per second (25fps) and a lower refresh rate (50Hz). The higher resolution makes PAL transfers appear much sharper than the respective NTSC version.

The conversion from the theatrical 24fps to the PAL 25fps involves the speeding up the film by 4%, making all PAL DVD's run a number of minutes shorter than their NTSC counterparts.