JDUB,
If you want the long answer follow these links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL.
The short versions is NTSC is the video format for American television (I'm assuming you're in America) and PAL is the video format for (primarily) European television. The two are incompatible.
PAL does not generally work on American video equipment and vice versa, though this is becoming much less the case. More than likely, if the video is indeed PAL, you are going to have to convert it to NTSC to get it to play right on your DVD player. It is very easy to do. Follow the link above and look at my suggestion. Or you could buy a DVD player that plays both PAL and NTSC video (I think that’s unnecessary personally).
Rob
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