> Speaking of PAL... a couple weeks ago I got a VHS movie (Barber of
> Siberia... I'm trying to learn Russian and thought it might help) on ebay,
> played it on my NTSC VCR, and noticed that the picture looked funny;
> people's faces looked like melting plastic, and high-contrast edges were
> somewhat haloed, etc. Then I noticed the box was labeled PAL. So I'm
> wondering if it was dubbed to NTSC (with poor quality), was the wrong box
> for the tape and was actually NTSC despite the labeling, or if my VCR
> actually managed to play a PAL tape, with the quality being the result
> of the higher-bandwidth video signal going through lower-bandwidth NTSC
> electronics, and probably also speeding up the movie by 20% or so?
> I didn't think NTSC VCRs could play PAL tapes at all.
Well, if it is a Japanese VCR, chances are good that it can
play both. They have only a few designs, and they are made to
cover all relevant Standards with only minor modifications
(additional software, different modulators/filtering) The same
is true for most TV sets. At least over here in Europe vitualy
every TV and most VCRs found are able to play both, often all
three standards (PAL, SECAM and NTSC). Just for the lower price
units these features are sometimes disabled.
Your description looks like a pure colour problem.
Gruss
H.
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Received on Fri Nov 10 2000 - 11:34:41 GMT