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04-28-01, 03:41 PM
My NTSCC VCR which I bought in England and was assured would play any tapes did in fact play video tapes bought in the US perfectly. The Sony NTSCC VCR I bought in the US however, will not play video tapes bought in the UK. Why?
dkerr
04-28-01, 04:36 PM
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/WorldTV/broadcast.html
scroll that page .This gives you the broadcast standard for
many countries.
If you notice Canada and the US is NTSC, UK is using the PAL standard.
The vcr you bought in England must have been dual mode compatable. the machine you bought in the US had the NTSC standard only, and therefore will not play a tape recorded in the PAL standard.
scroll that page .This gives you the broadcast standard for
many countries.
If you notice Canada and the US is NTSC, UK is using the PAL standard.
The vcr you bought in England must have been dual mode compatable. the machine you bought in the US had the NTSC standard only, and therefore will not play a tape recorded in the PAL standard.
Smokey
04-29-01, 03:45 PM
Smokey says amen. Don is absolutely correct in his answer.
World-wide standards for video tape have never been established. The basic standards are NTSC (American broadcast standard), PAL (used in Europe mostly), and SECAM.
A VCR that plays other video tape standards is both rare and costly. In most cases, it is cost effective to take the tapes with the foreign standard to a translator site and have it dubbed on a new tape with the NTSC standard.
Electronics is not a perfect industry and television has many kinks in the system when you move among various countries. The system is slow to respond. It took nearly five years before they established a standard so that you could play your videotape on another manufacturer's machine. In the old days, a Panasonic recorded tape would not play on a SONY machine. Finally a standard called
EIA-J emerged.
The differences between NTSC, PAL, and SECAM are differences in picture frame rates, synchonization signals, and tape biasing for resolution. When people complain about the different formats, the industry just said, "Live with it!"
Smokey ;)
World-wide standards for video tape have never been established. The basic standards are NTSC (American broadcast standard), PAL (used in Europe mostly), and SECAM.
A VCR that plays other video tape standards is both rare and costly. In most cases, it is cost effective to take the tapes with the foreign standard to a translator site and have it dubbed on a new tape with the NTSC standard.
Electronics is not a perfect industry and television has many kinks in the system when you move among various countries. The system is slow to respond. It took nearly five years before they established a standard so that you could play your videotape on another manufacturer's machine. In the old days, a Panasonic recorded tape would not play on a SONY machine. Finally a standard called
EIA-J emerged.
The differences between NTSC, PAL, and SECAM are differences in picture frame rates, synchonization signals, and tape biasing for resolution. When people complain about the different formats, the industry just said, "Live with it!"
Smokey ;)
05-03-01, 02:01 PM
Although somewhat tortuously. We brought several hundred dollars worth of video tapes from England, confident that we could get a dual player here. I can get a VCR in the UK for $100.00 which will play PAL and NTSC tapes, a friend is sending it to me and all we need then is a simple power adapter! what a performance though. Thank you for your assistance