On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 10:33:11PM +0000, Fides <fides at kludgeco.com> wrote: > Matthew Hunter wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 02:25:02AM -0600, Gametech > ><voltronalpha at hotmail.com> wrote: > >>PAL is a slightly better resolution to my knowledge NTSC is like 240 x 320 > >>(I think) but I don't know exactly how using the better resolution system > >>would interact, I could assume it's either scale or get a little skewed. > >320x200 vs 320x256, IIRC. > >As far as I know, they won't play at all -- no scaling or > >skewing, just a non-functional tape. > Wow. Our tape player plays both. Most modern European ones do these > days. I'm told most US ones don't bother for some reason (I guess they > don't think you will ever need to do it). Your best bet is probably > checking if any of your friends have a player that does both. Then at > the least you can watch it but you might be able to take a copy or > digitize it so you can play it on your computer. The only piece of consumer-level hardware that did both PAL and NTSC in the US was the Amiga, as far as I know. All VCRs, TVs, etc did only NTSC unless you got into the professional gear. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp