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Posted by Edward on 10/15/06 05:20
Jukka Aho wrote:
> Edward wrote:
>
> >> Since you said you're from an NTSC country but would be using the
> >> player while travelling in Europe, it probably doesn't really
> >> matter, though. Reasonably modern [1] European tv sets will
> >> typically accept and display both PAL and NTSC signals. [...]
> >> If you're visiting little old ladies that have steam-powered tv
> >> sets from the 80s, those could be a problem. But sets manufactured
> >> after about 1995 (or so) are usually NTSC-compatible.
>
> > No little old ladies.
> > Mostally hotels and realitives.
>
> Hotels often set up their TV sets in a special "hotel mode" where some
> adjustments, such as retuning the channels, are locked down. They may
> also equip the sets with a restricted, dumbed-down "hotel remote" that
> does not have all of the buttons that could be found on the standard
> remote. In the worst case, the tv sets themselves may be special models
> that do not have AV connectors at all (besides the RF input), or the
> remote may not allow switching the signal source to the AV connector.
>
> That's not _usually_ the case - I've been to hotel rooms in Sweden,
> Latvia, Germany, and France and managed to connect my camcorder to the
> house tv set in all of them - but be prepared for surpises.
I might be in a hotel that is somewhat old, I'm not going to be in
touristy areas all the time, hence looking for a portable DVD player
with an LCD that supports input and output in both formats.
>
> Another thing you should be prepared for is that the primary AV
> connector on European tv sets is the ubiquitous SCART socket:
>
> <http://www.racenight.me.uk/img/scart%20connection.jpg>
> <http://content.answers.com/main/content/img/CDE/SCART.GIF>
> <http://x6.no/images/articles/scart-tv.jpg>
> <http://www.mediawrite.ie/scart.jpg>
<snip>
>
> You can read more about the SCART connector on these pages:
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scart>
> <http://pinouts.ru/Home/Scart_pinout.shtml>
> <http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/eprebel/SoundAnd
> Vision/Engineering/SCART.html>
>
> --
> znark
thanks, I'm actually familiar with SCART but I assumed every TV has
both on it.
However... like Steven Segal says - assumption is the mother of all...
something something.
Anyway, I'll hit ebay and get a SCART adapter. I don't want to start
shopping around in europe when I should be sightseeing.
Apparently there are portable DVD players with LCDS that do indeed have
PAL or NTSC output. However most sellers on ebay don't know the hole
in the DVD from the hole in their ass.
I was in europe about 13 years ago and I used composite to hook up my
video camera to a TV and it was B&W. Thats what I expected. However
every idiot on the trip with me (20+ people) insisted on staying in my
rom and watching themselvs act like goofs on my poor 8mm camera.
Fun times.
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