Imposible to change ntsc to pal resolution

For an unknown reason, my mac mini has decided that my monitor is now ntsc, and everything is terribly ugly.
Fonts and colors are really bad.
Only things I have done is conecting through mini display port or hdmi. display port for monitor and hdmi for TV.
Anyone knows how can I force mac os to PAL refresh? Why has it decided to change?
Software is up to date.
Thanks

Try a PRAM reset.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.7/en/mh26871.html

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Posted: Oct 18, 2006 8:27 AM Reply Email
i got some footage of a wedding that was shot in ntsc format on vhs that was burnt do a dvd. i recorded the dvd onto my computer using final cutpro (dvd to cmaera to computer). I saved it as a quick time movie, now i want to burn into a pal format film so it can be shown in England. How can i do this with idvd.
I tried changing the prefernces to pal and i tried changing the video mode in the project info to pal but i get an message when i click burn that says TV standard conflict. i still go ahead to burn but it comes beack with an encoding error.
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Message was edited by: peterjohndean

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I have a sanyo xactia hd digital camera, so i want to change from 29 fps to 25 fps and i can't or i don't know how to do it. Can somebody help me?. Thanks a lot.

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