Will a US PS3 play PAL formatted videos?

May be...

I have a 60GB PS3 and I want to buy the movie [REC] it is not our here and is only available in PAL. Reading the specs it says the movie is anamorphic 16x9 but I'm not sure if the PAL formatting will prevent me from watching on the NTSC PS3.

Thanks

It won't because the console is from the US, while the DVD is from the Europe. Region restrictions would stop it.



An additional problem would be the movie actually displaying properly as PAL uses a different encoding for videos compared to NTSC so the video would be scrambled unless the television is compatible.

Movies are are region locked, so, unfortunately, you can't. :-(

Nope, sure won't.

you cant:(