NTSC to PAL converter

bmccaig
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Joined: 12 May 2008
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 6:33 am

 

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I will be moving to Australia this summer. I understand that my television in Canada uses the NTSC encoding system, but Australia uses the PAL encoding system. Is it possible to buy a converter that will convert the PAL signal to NTSC format? If anyone has purchased one, did they do it in Canada or in Australia? And finally, approximately how much did the converter cost?

Thanks.

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Steven
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Joined: 28 Sep 2007
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Location: Calgary

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 11:12 am

 

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Your TV might already work with PAL, have a look at the instructions. Depends also on the input, as cable boxes have all kinds of outputs nowadays. Used to be PAL had an RF input and NTSC had those stupid wires but I've seen cable boxes with firewire, HDMI, etc. outputs. If your TV supports HDMI input and the cable/satellite box has got the output, most likely your TV works there anyway.

Probably a good idea to figure out which service you plan on using there and looking up the spec. of the box.

Been quite awhile frankly since I've seen a good quality TV that didn't support NTSC and PAL, only the crappy Chinese-made ones don't usually. The only real problem is if you plan on using an antenna.
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