PAL & NTSC: Are they important anymore?

I'm in the market for a new video camera. The model I'm looking at is significantly cheaper in the US, whilst I live in a PAL country. I shoot and edit for the intra and inter webs. I understand that were I to shoot video for broadcasting on TV, PAL vs NTSC would be important but for the web is there any reason why I couldn't shoot NTSC here? 

Yeah I've seen that there are a few computer based options but haven't tried them. I've heard that the image quality suffers, but don't know from personal experience.
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