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From: tohaapanen@watrose.UUCP (Tom Haapanen)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: PAL <--> NTSC videotape transfer
Message-ID: <7883@watrose.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 17:03:48 EST
Article-I.D.: watrose.7883
Posted: Fri Mar  7 17:03:48 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 8-Mar-86 05:33:38 EST
Reply-To: tohaapanen@watrose.UUCP (Tom Haapanen)
Organization: University of Waterloo, Ontario
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Here's a question for all you TV/video experts out there on the net:

I know that the PAL and NTSC colour television systems are 100.0%
incompatible.  Stemming from this, I understand that video tapes
recorded from an NTSC camera or television can not be viewed on a
VCR hooked up to a PAL television.

Well, I want to make tapes here in Canada (using the NTSC system) 
and send them to Europe.  In order to watch them over there, can
I use an NTSC television in Europe, hooked up to a VCR?  Naturally, 
you'd switch between PAL and NTSC TV's when you wanted to watch North
American tapes or tape European TV, but anyway...

Will this work?  I'm thinking of taking a VCR and a NTSC colour TV
to Europe from here, but both of these are made to work on 110V,
60 Hz current.  The voltage change to 220V is no problem, but can
I get them to run on 50 Hz?  Would there be any other problems?

Thanks for any help!


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