PAL gives you 256 or 512 lines, NTSC gives you 200 or 400 lines (without overscan). Quite a difference in resolution.
And PAL also displays at a painfully slow 50Hz refresh (25Hz in Interlace!), as opposed to NTSC's higher 60Hz. In other words, flickery as he$# on a 1084 monitor. I don't know how those guys in PAL countries stand it, LOL.
Back in the day I used to always put my PAL A1200 into NTSC mode through early startup before booting. These days I don't pay any attention to those settings, just use ScreenMode prefs to set a NTSC screenmode, the only time I might ever change anything to PAL is in the tooltypes for some stubborn game when running through WHDLoad. Really it seems to be a non-issue with "modern" hardware.
