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.
If you must play an NTSC formatted DVD on a PAL DVD player, or vice versa, there are conversion kits available. These kits can convert NTSC to PAL or PAL to NTSC. The downside to these conversion kits is that they can be very time consuming and the quality of the movies may be reduced upon completion of the conversion. Electrical Differences. Most people will not be able to easily tell the difference between NTSC and PAL.