The PAL region is a television publication territory that covers most of Europe and Africa, alongside parts of Asia, South America and Oceania. It is named PAL because of the PAL (Phase Alternating Line) television standard traditionally used in some of those regions, as opposed to the NTSC standard traditionally used in Japan and most of North America. More recently, as most countries have stopped using the PAL standard entirely in favor of newer digital standards such as DVB, the term "PAL region" in video gaming means the list of regions it had covered in the past. List Below are countries and territories that used or once used the PAL system. Many of these have converted or are converting PAL to DVB-T (most countries), DVB-T2 (most countries), DTMB (China, Hong Kong and Macau) or ISDB (Sri Lanka, Maldives, Botswana and part of South America). PAL B, D, G, H, K or I (used SECAM) (DVB-T introduction in assessment) (Digital broadcast using DTMB) (see New Zealand) (migrated from SECAM 1990–1992) (UHF only) (Analogue shutoff scheduled to 2 November 2022; simulcasted in DVB-T since 2008 until 2012, been changed to DVB-T2 2012 forward, and the government scheduled to give-away free 7 million STB DVB-T2 in April 2014) (DVB-T introduction in assessment) (DVB-T introduction in assessment) (DVB-T introduction in assessment) (Once experimented in PAL-M) (Using PAL for Lebanese channels. Channels from Europe or even from USA are not broadcast analogue) (PAL-I, DTMB introduced since 15 July 2008) (DVB-T2 digital launched. Analogue switch-off was completed by end-October 2019) (see Australia) (used SECAM until 1990s) (DVB-T introduction in assessment) (DVB-T introduction in assessment) (Two PAL-I analogue TV services operated by BFBS) (along with SECAM) (PAL broadcast to be abandoned. Analog shutoff scheduled for 15 June 2015. Simulcast in DVB-T) (DVB-T introduction) PAL-M (H264 video over ISDB-T, at 480i@60 Hz (SD) or 1080i@60 Hz (HD), simulcast with digital format in ISDB-Tb, also called SBTVD), an update to ISDB-T, started in December 2007. PAL broadcasting in its final stages of abandonment, the complete shut-down is scheduled to 2023. PAL-N (H264 video over ISDB-T, at 480i/576i@50/60 Hz (SD) or 1080i@50/60 Hz (HD), simulcast with digital format in ISDB-Tb, also called SBTVD), an update to ISDB-T, started in August 28, 2008. PAL broadcasting in its final stages of abandonment, the complete shut-down is scheduled to 2023. (Simulcast in ISDB-T) (Simulcast in ISDB-T) Countries and territories that have ceased using