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From: rich@aoa.UUCP (Rich Snow)
Newsgroups: net.analog,net.misc,net.tv
Subject: Re: TV & VCR standards
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Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 09:41:07 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 09:41:07 1986
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Keywords: standards, SECAM, PAL
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In article <2875@randvax.UUCP> jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly) writes:
>In article <395@packard.UUCP> aat@packard.UUCP (AA Triolo) writes:
>>I too have a problem with US/European standards.
>>My question is: first, is all of Europe on the same standard?

No there are several standards, and several incompatable national versions
of those, the rumor is that the Swiss have multistandard TV's so they can
watch programs in German and French on the same set.  I'd just say TV
standards are all indo-european in root...
>
>I don't know about Beta format, but we recorded some tapes on our VHS
>machine (both from TV and with our camera), and they work fine on our
>friends' machines in the Netherlands.  So there's some compatibility
>between US and Netherlands in VHS, anyway.

Only because your friends happen to have NTSC (never twice the same color)
decks to play them on, or they have a multi-standard deck. If you ask them
to make tapes from local TV and send them back, you'll run into trouble.
Conversion is possible but costs upwards of $100...


TANSTAAFL!


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