The movie tape that you bought in a foreign land, most likely will not play in your VCR and also, you will not be able to watch it on your TV. It is also true the other way round. Video standards differ from country to country. There are three types of video standards that are being used in the world and these are, PAL, NTSC and SECAM. PAL standard is used in Western Europe, South America, Australia, New Zealand, India, and China. South America uses the derivatives of the PAL system, PAL-M, PAL-N, PAL with the Unites States using National Television Standards Committee (NTSC). SECAM is being the standard in France and some other neighbouring countries of France, which were once under the French colonial rule. Every part of the world uses a mixture of these standards and as a result, video tapes from one part of the country are found to be incompatible with the standard prevalent in the other.
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