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From: giaccone@ur-tut (Tony Giaccone)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: VCR Tape From Greece
Message-ID: <1909@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 18:34:22 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Rochester, Computing Center
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Keywords: Conversion, standards


Hi folks,

I'm not sure that this is the right newsgroup to post this to, but I couldn't
find anyother that seemed more appropriate. A friend of mine recently took a
trip to Greece to visit family. While there an uncle took several hours of
Video tape of the family together for my friend to take home (to the US) with
her.

When she got back to this country, she tried to play the tape on her VCR, and
the picture was mostly snow. The voices were still audible, though they were
speaking at a higher pitch, and faster then they should have been. She tried
playing with the tracking, but that didn't solve the problem.

So the question is what's causing the problem (my guess is that it's because
Greece operates on 50 cycles rather than our 60)? Second does anyone know of
a service in this country that can copy/duplicate this tape so that it's
viewable on a US VCR??


				Thanks in advance

					Tony Giaccone
					giaccone@sarek.cc.rochester.edu
					rutgers!rochester!tut!giaccone