Re: NTSC playback

[Doogie Brodie <ukhad@xxxxxxx>]

TAWN Jonathan wrote:

> After receiving the fireplace DVD (thanks rob!) ... I popped it into
> my sony
> DAV-S550 player, it started to play ... great I thought ...
however  
> it was
> in black & white.
>
> The thing is, I do not use a tv as such, its an old monitor - with
scart
> input / bnc input and phono in/out's ... no tuner. (hey .. it was 
> cheap and
> after my tosh tv died... ) I've been told that the reason I cannot
> view this
> disc in colour is because my TV (if that's what I can call it)
doesn't
> support NTSC ... so I either need a new tv (not viable at the moment
> due to
> a v.poor bank balance) or a ntsc / pal converter (seen in maplins for
> around
> 30quid)
>
> What I'm hoping one of you can tell me is either:
>
> This bit of kit from maplin's will sort it out so I can view import
dvd's
> fine, or
> I'm stuck with B&W viewing until I can afford to get a nice new
tv.
>
> Oh .. just thought, its currently connected using composite
outputs
> (although was going to change it at the weekend for SVHS (using svhs /
> scart
> cable)

As long as you have a _stable_ B&W picture, then a NTSC-> PAL colour
converter from Maplins/ anywhere else will do the trick. If the picture
was B&W but rolling then the set wouldn't support 60Hz, and you'd be
f'd 
without spending a lot more.

I use one of the Maplins 30 quid ones (composite only though) to convert
colour before passing it to my wireless video sender which only 
transmits PAL colours. If you're playing PAL material then you need to 
bypass the unit completely..... switching it off transmits nothing at 
all. I fixed this by using what I'm pretty sure was described as a 
speaker switch... basically something that took 2 composite inputs and 
one output, which I have to manually click the switch on when I want to
change between NTSC and PAL (but that only effects my bedroom and 
kitchen, so it's not that much hassle)

Not sure what price Svideo ones are, but what you could possibly do is 
have the NTSC converter connected via composite and have an SVideo lead
straight from DVD -> Monitor, so you'd choose composite input for NTSC
and SVideo for PAL.

HTH

-- 
Doogie




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