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From: gdmr@cstvax.UUCP (George D M Ross)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: RHPS, Magenta, and UK video tapes
Message-ID: <301@cstvax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 00:59:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun 29 00:59:26 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 02:56:00 EDT
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Reply-To: gdmr@cstvax.UUCP (George D M Ross)
Organization: Comp. Sc., Edinburgh Univ., Scotland
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Keywords: Never Twice the Same Colour

It's much worse than that, as I'm sure lots of others will have pointed out.
The UK uses 625-line PAL, while the US uses something like 525-line NTSC.
So the line frequency is different, as is the field frequency, not to mention
the colour encoding (though it's easier to get round that -- just convert it
to RGB).  Looks like you'll have to buy a UK TV as well as a UK VTR (and a
120V -> 240V transformer, but that's another story).  Or ask your friendly
neighbourhood TV station if they would lend you their standards converter....
-- 
George D M Ross, Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Edinburgh
Phone: +44 31-667 1081 x2730
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