Switch PAL to NTSC?

I've got the latest ipad with up-to-date OS & recently purchased the Digital AV adapter so I could connect to tv via HDMI.
I've just attempted to watch a video via my ipad onto a tv & it comes out all distorted with the wrong colour picture coming and going as well no sound at all. I know this is a simple case of switching it from PAL to NTSC as I am in America but the settings that I'm used to where I could change the tv signal output has disappeared.
How am I meant to change it now? The Digital AV adapter is useless if I can't change the settings for the tv signal output!

Just out of curiosity, is the video in question encoded as PAL or NTSC? Seems to me the adapter would have to use whatever aspect ratio, lines, etc. the video is coded for.

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