Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Conversion of TV Transmission Standards Message-ID: Date: 1 Apr 91 14:10:26 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Reply-To: Scott Dorsey Organization: NASA Langley Research Center Lines: 30 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 263, Message 15 of 16 In article kddlab!lkbreth.foretune. co.jp!trebor@uunet.uu.net (Robert J Woodhead) writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 251, Message 1 of 11 > steff@cernvax.cern.ch (morten steffensen) writes: >> My question: Does there exist a commercial "plug-in-and-play" >> converter box between these different signals. What would be the best >> for her to do? Re-export the TV and the video? > There are international VCR's that do what you want. The Akihabara in > Tokyo is lousy with them, as they are a big hit with tourists. These > VCRs can play PAL, SECAM and NTSC VHS tapes, and also have tuners that > can pick up all the formats. They have an internal converter and, I > THINK, can drive a PAL, SECAM or NTSC tv or monitor. Most of these units are VCR's that produce a PAL signal from PAL tapes and an NTSC signal from NTSC tapes. Changing from one scan rate to another is very, very difficult (anyone remember the Eidekoscope with the three storage CRTs?), but building equipment designed to use either one isn't all that hard. International VCR's will probably work only with international TV sets. You might be able to get your NTSC TV to synch up on a european TV signal, although you probably won't get the sound carrier and the color won't be there. Oh, there are shops in NYC that do sell multistandard TVs and VCRs. Scott