Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 ggr 02/21/84; site edsel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!edsel!rib From: rib@edsel.UUCP (RI Block) Newsgroups: net.video Subject: Modifying an NTSC VCR Message-ID: <282@edsel.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 08:32:50 EST Article-I.D.: edsel.282 Posted: Wed Jan 2 08:32:50 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 3-Jan-85 03:42:33 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway Lines: 36 I recently moved to Israel as a new immigrant (Oleh). I brought with me a Panasonic PV-5500 portable VHS VCR with camera. I also brought a Philips "9-way TV set which handles both NTSC American standard and local PAL broadcasts. I am able to record with the camera and to play back stuff which I brought with me. I cannot record off the air. I don't know what I would get if I put a locally-purchased pre-recorded tape into the machine. My main intent is to take pictures of the family and mail them back to doting grandparents in the States who miss us. After all, the equipment was a present from my father. For this, I'm doing just fine. However, I have the tuner sitting here rendered useless by the different broadcast system. I'm wondering if anything can be done so that I could record off-the-air here and/or play local pre-recorded material while at the same time retaining compatibility with the camera and the folk's NTSC-only TV sets back in New York. Tax laws and customs duties here make it prohibitively expensive for me to bring in more equipment (legally) so buying a second set for local use is out. I might be able to get permission to send the set elsewhere for modifications and then bring it back. Panasonic is notably unhelpful about these matters. I wrote to their American service headquarters in Secaucus, N.J. before leaving and never even got a reply. (They never responded to letters about other things either so it's not that my request is outrageous). Failing any success in modifying the set, I shall offer the tuner for sale. Sam Gamoran Weizmann Institute of Science Computer Center Rehovot, Israel Please respond either: to the net (net.video) to VSSAM@WEIZMANN.bitnet to wisdom!sam (I'm not sure of the path).