Gareth Knight skrev:
>Shawn T. Rutledge
>> In Europe multi-standard VCRs may be more common because they are
>> much more necessary.
>Until recently multi-standard VCRs were located in the high-end of the
>market. I only began to notice it appearing in cheaper models about three
>years ago. It depends upon the manufacturer- the VCR i bought last year does
>not support NTSC but my parents' three year old model does. Perhaps I could
>flash the bios. ;)
I dare say that every VTR on the market now is dual-standard. Each and every
one. Even my bottom-range Luma mono video bought last year supports NTSC
playback. It won't play EP tapes, though, so I had to shell out for a stereo
JVC later on, too. =/
However, these won't help in any way when you've got an NTSC signal which is
not on a tape. OTOH, the more expensive TV sets now often have NTSC support.
If you may obtain an RGB signal, thpough, that is always the way to go, since
every TV made in the last decade and most TVs from the preceding one will
support RGB.
>> Do they automatically detect what kind of tape is being played
>> or is there a switch to select it? If they detect it, I wonder
>> how it's done.
>You can enable/disable the option on a menu screen.
My modern players do it automatically, whereas an 80s, once-expensive model
may be switched between automatic and user-defined modes, as well as
outputting pure signals as well as PAL converted ones. It is also my only VTR
to support SECAM (pure SECAM, as opposed to MESECAM).
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Received on Mon Nov 13 2000 - 17:38:35 GMT