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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,rec.video,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: converting PAL to NTSC and back
Message-ID: <2990@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 88 05:13:05 GMT
References: <10034@e.ms.uky.edu> <1310@number1.step.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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In article <1310@number1.step.UUCP> perl@step.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) writes:
<I don't know about NTSC->PAL, but there is a machine that does
<PAL->NTSC.  It's made by a company called Instant Replay and the
<machine is called the Image Translator.  It looks like a regular VHS
<VCR, but it plays tapes of almost every world VHS format and converts
<the signal to NTSC on the way out.  I don't know what it's recording
<capabilities are.

Well, not exactly.  It doesn't convert everything to NTSC.  The color is
converted, but the frame/timing rates are still PAL, ie, 625 line 50 Hz.
Most American TVs will lock onto that just fine.

You will NOT be able to record the output of one of these machines onto
a NTSC VCR.
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