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Posted by Jukka Aho on 10/13/06 15:25
timepixdc wrote:
> In article <452f451a.4863813@news.reith.bbc.co.uk>,
> steveroberts@compuserve.com (Steve Roberts) wrote:
>
>> It's worth pointing out that most European sets are *fully*
>> multi-standard these days and have been for almost a decade.
> Really? Most European TV sets are PAL and NTSC?
Yes. All reasonably modern European tv sets will typically accept a
genuine baseband 3.58 MHz NTSC signal through their s-video and
composite video sockets, and a corresponding 525-line 59.94 Hz RGB
signal through their SCART sockets. (RGB via the SCART connector is
usually the signal format of choice for connecting DVD players, digital
set-top-boxes, and modern video game consoles here, much in the same way
as the YPbPr component signal is used in the NTSC countries. In
practice, when viewing signals from "NTSC" devices, such as imported
game consoles or imported DVDs, you may end up using RGB signal at NTSC
refresh rates more than an actual NTSC color signal. The decoding
capability for genuine NTSC colors is there, nonetheless. An American
tourist, for instance, can usually connect his NTSC camcorder to an
European tv set and review what he has shot during the day with no
problems.)
European tv sets are not usually multistandard for their tuner part,
though, so they may not be capable of receiving over-the-air System M
broadcasts. (Not that there would be much need for that in countries
where NTSC is not a broadcast standard, of course. But if required in
some special case - for example, if you move into an NTSC country and
bring your European tv set with you - receiving and viewing NTSC
broadcasts can be arranged with an external System M RF tuner. The
simplest way of acquiring one would be buying a regular NTSC VCR which
receives over-the-air NTSC-M broadcasts and demodulates them into a
baseband composite video signal which you can feed to your tv set, this
way bypassing the internal System B, G, or I tuner.)
--
znark
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