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  • Edit for correction: The PAL/NTSC divide has nothing to do with licensing.
    Those are 2 different standards for producing colored TV video, which were developed independently and got implemented in different parts of the world. Before the switch to digital, the entire production chain for media had to match the standard of your TV set. So you couldn’t play US DVDs on European players simply because they were incompatible technically.

    Fun fact: The European standard played at 25 images per second, while American movie cameras recorded at 24. So every Hollywood movie you watched on a European TV was sped up very slightly. This wasn’t noticeable in the image or with voices, but the corresponding pitch change could be detected in music if you had a keen ear and knew the original songs.