Posted by Niall Leonard on 12/06/05 12:05

On 6 Dec 2005 03:16:33 -0800, bingleyprestoncarlise@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

>Hello all
>
>First post so bear with me.
>
>Our trusty video recorder finally gave up on us a few months back.
>Rather than just get another VCR I was swayed by the salesman's
>argument to buy a DVD recorder instead.
>
>Back at home, all was going well until we began wondering how we were
>going to play the home movies we'd got on VHS cassette. Our son
>suggested that we borrow his VCR and we should be able to record
>straight onto DVD. Sounded simple enough. Several days later we were
>getting no-where. Each video cassette took an eternity to transfer and
>unless we hung around watching each and every minute of our recordings,
>we'd be transferring not only our precious footage but also the
>not-so-precious snow screens.
>
>Desperate to show a relatively recent home video to some friends, I
>used www.yourvideosondvd.co.uk to transfer the contents of one DVD for
>me. A couple of days later back came two DVDs, all neatly packaged. No
>problem at all and very professionally edited.
>
>The only query I have is would these DVDs play if I was to send them to
>friends in the United States? Don't they have a different type of
>television system over there?
>
>Regds,
>D Rodgers

They do, but many US customers use TVs sourced from outside the US,
and any of those made in the last ten years should be able to show PAL
as well as NTSC, the American system. Many DVD players can read PAL,
the European system, and output NTSC if properly set up.

It occurs to me you should have asked for the DVDs in NTSC format as
most modern UK setups can cope fine with both formats.

The bottom line is, check with the people you're sending it to. if
they have up-to-date setups they should be able to play the disks
fine. They might have to look in their TV manuals to confirm it. Ask
them to see if their sets and/or DVD players can cope with PAL.

Or you could get in touch with the video-transfer people to see if
they wil do you further copies of your DVDs in NTSC format.

nl

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