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From: squishy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Shishin Yamada)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Converting to NTSC from PAL
Keywords: NTSC to PAL, NTSC, PAL
Message-ID: <3127@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: 1 Feb 91 21:56:53 GMT
References: <4180@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> <17660148@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
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	A few years ago while in Japan, there was a new VCR from Hitachi
which could do format transfers.

	I believe it was menat for semi-professional work and work
send/receive and record in NTSC-J,M (Japan & US), SECAM, and PAL. It also
had a built in autoranging voltage power supply (independent of line
frequency too). It sounded amazing to me at the time (I was just looking
for a converter for American NTSC-M to Japanese NTSC-J. Just their channel
frequencies are off. Japan makes their channel 6 and 7 contiguous and moves
their FM band elsewhere. The US has it's FM radio band inbetween TV channel
6 and 7 frequencies for some odd reason. Evectually, I just ran direct
audio/video into a new NTSC-J RF modulator to make life easy).

	Anyways, I think this VCR sold for the $900 price range for VHS
videotapes. I remember seeing two similar models (one may have been a rack
mount version, or there may have been a separate PAL/SECAM version. They
both would support NTSC). I would contact a Hitachi Sales Repesentative for
more details. Sorry, but I don't remember the model numbers.

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Shishin "Squish" Yamada		Northwestern Unviersity
squishy@casbah.acns.nwu.edu	Electrical Engineering Class of 1991!!!!
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