For motion picture production, it is not going against the grain to be shooting in PAL anywhere in the world including in the NTSC part of it. The application is the determining factor - not where you live. A rapidly growing part of the independent film production world are making movies with PAL DV cameras. Why? Because their frame rate of 25 fps is much closer to film's 24 fps speed and they are a higher 625 progressive lines of resolution. kunga10 (AIM) kunga47 (Yahoo Messenger with Cross-Platform dial-up Video sans audio) On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 07:34 PM, Steven Rogers wrote: >> Which is a better DV format NTSC or PAL? > On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 08:33 PM, Paul Williams wrote: > It doesn't matter which one is better - you go with the one that's the > standard for your region because going against the grain is absurdly > difficult.