PAL-M (television)

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PAL-M is the TV system used in Brazil.

[edit] Technical specification

In Brazil, PAL is used in conjunction with the 525 line, 29.97 frame/s system M, using (very nearly) the NTSC colour subcarrier frequency. Almost all other countries using system M use NTSC.

The PAL colour system (either baseband or with any RF system, with the normal 4.43 MHz subcarrier unlike PAL-M) can also be applied to an NTSC-like 525-line (480i) picture to form what is often known as "PAL-60" (sometimes "PAL-60/525" or "Pseudo PAL").

[edit] PAL-M interoperability

PAL-M (in baseband mode) is often used in applications such as playing NTSC video tapes on compatible PAL VCRs, playing NTSC DVD-Video, and video games, as most modern PAL television sets can handle this kind of signal without too many issues — standard NTSC-3.58 support is less common (though more recent sets support it) and often results in a black-and-white picture when viewed on a PAL TV set.

  • The issues of lack of colour, or having to convert the video to PAL-60 can be easily solved by using RGB connections through SCART cables, which are very common in Europe.
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