Shawn T. Rutledge skrev:
>On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:38:35AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
>> 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. =/
>Yeah but do US VCRs do PAL...
To the best of my knowledge, they certainly don't.
>> 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.
>If you're talking about the SCART connector, I've not seen any TVs or
>VCRs here that have them. (Not that I've been going around the stores
>looking for it though...) That's also a European thing. If I had a VCR
>with RGB out, that'd be a lot better because I could hook it up to my
>projector. (And I've been trying to get an NTSC decoder board for my RGB
>switcher on ebay for months now; keep getting "sniped" at the last minute,
>and forgetting to be there at the right time to do that myself.)
I've never heard of a VTR with RGB. After all, video cassettes store their
image in a much more compressed format than RGB.
>I did get a DVD player with RGB out (that's a very rare feature here;
>usually they have YCbCr instead.) It's a lousy player in most other
>ways but at least I get the full resolution on my projector. It doesn't
>have a SCART connector either; separate RCA plugs for the three signals.
That's quaint.
Of course, seeing as Japan is much like North America WRT TV standards, a lot
of DVD players here don't have RGB either. Of course, it is doubtful whether
the DVD image would look any good without the blurring of composite.
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