Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cstvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cstvax!gdmr 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 Article-I.D.: cstvax.301 Posted: Sat Jun 29 00:59:26 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 02:56:00 EDT References: <2320@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: gdmr@cstvax.UUCP (George D M Ross) Organization: Comp. Sc., Edinburgh Univ., Scotland Lines: 12 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 UUCP:!ukc!{hwcs,kcl-cs,ucl-cs,edcaad}!cstvax!gdmr JANET: gdmr@UK.AC.ed.cstvax or gdmr@UK.AC.ed.ecsvax