Baralier wrote: > From: "Fides" <fides at kludgeco.com> >> Matthew Hunter wrote: > > Re: NTC & PAL videos > >>> 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). > > Pretty much same down under. We can play both formats. I can't dub > tape to tape from an NTSC video but I can certainly play them on my > machine. > > For what it's worth it seems NTSC videos also play their *normal* > speed at a faster rate than PAL videos. The amount of tape for a 1 > hour recording is significantly more than for the same programme in > PAL. NTSC is 29.x frames a sec and PAL is 25. That'd explain the extra tape with NTSC