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CNET GLOSSARY: Terms for the techie
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PAL 
Phase Alternation Line 
The television broadcast standard used in the U.K. and in many European countries. This standard specifies broadcasts of 625 horizontal lines of resolution per second, nearly 20 percent more than the U.S. standard, NTSC, of 525 lines.


   
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