Using UK equipment in US

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Mon Feb 19 15:08:46 2001

> It should be possible to tap off composite video at the input to the
> modulator can. It'll still be UK standard (50Hz vertical) but many
> composite mono monitors will display that if you tweak the verical hold
> knob. Am I correct in assuming that this is a monochrome output machine
> anyway, so the colour encoding differences (NTSC .vs. PAL) are irrelevant?

He said a TC2048. I wonder if he meant 2068, which *is* colour, unfortunately.
It seems that most American TVs are not PAL friendly. I wonder why it's so
much easier to get an NTSC/PAL set in the rest of the world than it is here.

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