Each frame is made up of 625 individual scan lines. Most video tapes from the UK, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia use PAL, in which 25 frames are transmitted each second. PAL (which stands for Phase Altering Line) is the viewing standard used overseas. While we talk a lot around her about different video formats that need to be converted to DVD and digital (VHS, VHS-C, Hi8, Video8, Digital8, MiniDV, MicroMV Betamax, U-matic), PAL is not a video tape format, but a standardized viewing format decided on before the tape is ever made. Tom Cruise and his underwear were held at bay by two different international formatting standards that just don’t see eye-to-eye. The tape LOOKED normal! The DVD was the same size as always! Why didn’t it work? What does it take for Tom Cruise to slide across my TV screen in his underwear? GAH! It turns out your tape and your player both work fine. Putting a PAL tape in your American VCR or DVD player can produce the same teeth-grinding hair-pulling frustration. You know those arguments where it feels like neither of you are speaking the same language? Three slammed doors, one stubbed toe and a flying vase later, you realize you wanted essentially the same thing when your neighbor finally says it through the wall?
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