If it cant do NTSC-50 (ill check the manual) for £300 i can get a fairly nice tv to just watch broadcast. Cheap ones will most likely throw every sixth line or so away (don't quote me on this point though, it's mostly speculation) which could look a bit iffy, but shouldn't be noticeable all the time.Īnd will a dual system tv, bought here, (I'm looking at a panasonic set) play fine with my NTSC consoles? The converter should crunch down the number of lines for you. The sound is just plain old audio at this stage as it's already been through the tuner.
Just run the sound from the VCR to the TV using the usual RCA outputs and inputs. The cheap TV would get away with a lot by virtue of being small. The Wega, having a pretty decent tube, will tend to show up signal degradation from being shoved through the converter, along with any flaws in the process.
The native TV probably would look better. Ill get whatever cheap VCR with a tuner i can find and then use a composite converter. Nice TV, I can see why you prefer to keep it.Īnyway, i think the cheap VCR idea would be the best. Id probably just get a little flat scren sony 19"-21" or something like that if it ends up being like this. am i to expect 50 lines from the top and bottom to go over the screen? (meaning they will overflow) with my NTSC system?Īnd will a dual system tv, bought here, (im looking at a panasonic set) play fine with my NTSC consoles? Sound signal is the same in both NTSC and PAL i suppose?Īnother question. They sell it for around 60 dollars and it has composite in and out. I can just get my uncle to DHL it over to me from Miami.Īnyone know a reliable place where i can order this online and get it shipped to miami? All i can find is this australian places. Now, i do have access to buying stuff in America. I suppose for the same price i could get a really cheap tv (120-150 dollars) but would it look better than doing this conversion and getting it to play on my tv? Ill get whatever cheap VCR with a tuner i can find and then use a composite convertor. So i might go back afterwards.Īnyway, i think the cheap VCR idea would be the best. Even though im european (mediterranean) by blood. too much hassle+money.Īs of yet, im just here for school.
Also, all my consoles are NTSC and no way in hell am i switching everything to pal, because id rather have access to the Japanase and American catalog, (i can buy online and get friends to send it to me from the US, and my GF's family can do the same from Japan) and im not about to re-buy every single game. Ok, first, yes, i would rather keep the set to be NTSC since i might not stay here forever. They only come into their own when using tapes or syncing two signal together for editing.įirst of all, thanks everyone for your responses, Since you're just watching broadcast TV though, I'd expect the time base of the signal to be pretty much spot on anyway, so you don't really need them. The more expensive standards converters will have timebase correctors built in. The more expensive one should be pretty good though, and will serve your conversion needs both ways in most places. I've no idea what the quality is like but I'm sure it will be watchable, given that composite is somewhat less than perfect anyway. From the same site (I haven't been shopping around, these are just examples) there is this, which costs £300:īoth models accept composite input and output in composite too. If your TV can't do NTSC-50, then you have to pay to get the conversion from 50 fields per second to 60 too, and the price bumps up a fair bit. Your TV may be able to cope with this, maybe check in the manual. The CYP-100N converts from PAL to NTSC-50, which is NTSC colour at 50 fields per second. I don't know where the best place to get a converter from is in Spain, but this should give you something to aim for: This would mean you'd have to change channels on the VCR, but basically the NTSC tuner in your TV is useless anyway for the time being. You would then put a PAL-NTSC standards converter between the VCR composite output and TV composite input. A cheap PAL VCR would be ideal for this task. If you can get a PAL tuner on the RF cable and get that to output composite, then things should be easier. The tricky thing about what you want to do is that you can't just plug an RF cable into a standards converter - it needs to pass through a tuner first, because the RF cable is carrying all the TV stations and the converter can only deal with one discrete TV signal.
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