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From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: RHPS, Magenta, and UK video tapes
Message-ID: <4504@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Jun-85 05:56:09 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 20 05:56:09 1985
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["Share and enjoy"]

> [From: callaghan%pseudo.DEC@decwrl.ARPA  (Gaylene Callaghan DTN:523-4523)]

> BTW, I was under the impression that the UK videos
> cannot be played on US machines. That means you 
> would need to buy a UK machine to copy the UK video
> to US tape. If someone in UK has a US machine, I 
> would be glad to send them a tape to get a copy.

You are right that UK videos cannot be played on US machines.  But you
are wrong to think that you can copy a UK video tape to a US tape even
with both a US machine and a UK machine.  They both use different kinds
of video signals and require different kinds of TV sets.  The US video
signal standard is called NTSC and the UK video signal standard is
called PAL.  The only ways to copy tapes from UK format to US format, are
to buy a special digital device that costs more than $10,000, or to play
the UK tape on a UK TV and then copy the picture off of the TV with a
camera onto a US tape.  This second methods entails serious loss of
fidelity.

Why do I know this cruft?  I collect Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel
videos....

		"I hold a cup of wisdom, but there is nothing within"

		 Doug Alan
		  nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (or ARPA)