Camcorders - NTSC/PAL
 

I was about to purchase a camcorder, when I stumbled across it having a PAL version equivalent. Got me worried. IN 18 months we plan to move back to Australia. Does that mean if I purchased a camcorder now in the US, we could not watch the recording from it on our TVs in Australia? The PAL version is considerably more expensive.

Many - in fact most - TVs here in the land of Oz (and welcome back!!) have NTSC capability. Most DVD recorders also can handle an NTSC feed, although if you do so through IEEE1394 I could only guess that would work as well.

The short answer is that if you're buying the NTSC camcorder with mini-DV, you should have very few issues with playback or capture back in the land of PAL, 240 volts, sunshine, good beer etc etc... :)

thanks willyroo - you've reassured me. we're not bringing much back with us because of the electricity issue, but at least computers and electronics we hoped to hang on to.