Camcorders - NTSC/PAL
Aug 22, 2006 | 11:23 pm
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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.
Aug 23, 2006 | 12:22 am
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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...
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...
Aug 23, 2006 | 8:39 pm
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Originally Posted by willyroo
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...
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...