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Article #22123Re: NTSC <-> PAL
From: Tim Kehres
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 02:03
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1990 02:03
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In article <1679@milton.acs.washington.edu> pingpong@milton.acs.washington.edu (jimmy) writes:
> How difficult is it to build a NTSC <-> PAL device? (Any commercially
> available ones?)
> (I have a PAL VCR and a NTSC TV.)
> Or would it be cheaper to buy a PAL TV?
I'm not sure about building the NTSC <-> PAL converter, but I would not
think it woule be trivial. If someone knows of such a device, I would
also be interested, especially if it operates on 50/60 Hz.
When I was in Japan earlier in the year, I noticed many of the newer VCR's
that supported NTSC, PAL and SECAM. While in Germany a few months back,
I saw many televisions that supported all three formats, but not many
VCR's. I have not seen much of either in the United States.
In case you are interested, I had compiled a listing (from the '89 WRTH)
of many of the different broadcast formats:
Country Name Country Code Power Primary Language TV System
============ ============ ====== ================ =========
China (PRC) 86 220/50 Putonghua,Amoy D/PAL
China (Taiwan) 886 110/60 Chinese (Mandarin) M/NTSC
Hong Kong 852 200/50 Chinese,English I/PAL
Indonesia 62 127/50 Indonesian B/PAL
Japan 81 VAR/VAR Japanese M/NTSC
Korea (South) 82 100/60 Korean M/NTSC
Malaysia 60 240/50 Bahasa Malaysia B/PAL
Philippines 63 220/60 Philippine dialects M/NTSC
Singapore 65 230/50 Malay,Chinese,Tamil B/PAL
Sri Lanka 94 230/50 Sinhala,Tamil B/PAL
Thailand 66 220/50 Thai BM/PAL
Austria 43 220/50 German BG/PAL
Belgium 32 220/50 Dutch,French,German BH/PAL
Czechoslovakia 42 ???/50 Czech, Slovak DK/SECAM
Denmark 45 220/50 Danish B/PAL
France 33 220/50 French L/SECAM
Germany (West) 49 220/50 German BG/PAL
Germany (East) 37 ???/?? German BG/SECAM
Hungary 36 ???/50 Hungarian DK/SECAM
Italy 39 VAR/50 Italian BG/PAL
Luxembourg 352 110/50 Luxembourgian BLG/PAL&SECAM
Netherlands 31 220/50 Dutch BG/PAL
Spain 34 127/50 Spanish BG/PAL
Switzerland 41 220/?? German,French BG/PAL
United Kingdom 44 240/50 English I/PAL
USSR 7 127/50 Russian DK/SECAM
Canada 1 115/60 English,French M/NTSC
Mexico 52 110/60 Spanish M/NTSC
United States 1 110/60 English M/NTSC
Television System Codes
-----------------------
System #Lines Channel Vision Vision/ Vestigal Vision Sound
Width Bandwidth Sound side-band Modulation Modulation
MHz MHz separation MHz
Mhz
------ ------ ------- ------ ------- -------- ------ -----
A 405 5 3 -3.5 0.75 Pos AM
B 625 7 5 +5.5 0.75 Neg FM
C 625 7 5 +5.5 0.75 Pos AM
D 625 8 6 +6.5 0.75 Neg FM
G 625 8 5 +5.5 0.75 Neg FM
H 625 8 5 +5.5 1.25 Neg FM
I 625 8 5.5 +6 1.25 Neg FM
K 625 8 6 +6.5 0.75 Neg FM
K' 625 8 6 +6.5 1.25 Neg FM
L 625 8 6 +6.5 1.25 Pos AM
M 525 6 4.2 +4.5 0.75 Neg FM
N 625 6 4.2 +4.5 0.75 Neg FM
The sound carrier frequency for each channel can be determined by adding the
appropriate figure to the vision carrier frequency given above (5.5 MHz for
systems G, H; 6 MHz for system I and 6.5 MHz for systems K, L). In West
Germany ch38 is reserved for aero-navigation.
Regards,
Tim Kehres
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