Sheppard Cares. Sheppard AFB provides a wide variety of services to support Airmen and their families. To learn what's happening this month, check out the Sheppard Community Board. To quickly find and register for classes available on base, click the Leadership Pathways logo to the right.
NTSC stands for National Television Standards Committee. PAL stands for Phase Alternating Line. NTSC is the standard broadcast format in the United States, while PAL is the standard broadcast format in Europe, Australia, and parts of Asia.
In Europe the system is PAL. For playing NTSC DVDs in Europe - all PAL DVD players output NTSC, and MOST PAL TVs will display NTSC with no problems. DVDs. The encoded video (MPEG2) on a DVD is stored in digital format, but it's formatted NTSC or PAL. Some players play only NTSC discs, others play PAL and NTSC discs.