American (NTSC) VCR's that will play British (PAL) video tapes.

[Christopher W. Davies]

My girlfriend lives in the United States and wants to buy a VCR that will play
British (PAL) video tapes.

I would be very grateful if someone in the US who has such a machine, or anyone
that knows of such a machine could tell me the make, model and approximate
price.

Either post a reply on the newsgroup, or E-mail me directly at
Davi...@aol.com.

Thanks very much,

Christopher W. Davies.

[Steve Roberts]

Christopher W. Davies <davi...@aol.comdimspam> wrote in article
<20000920174221...@ng-fr1.aol.com>...

> My girlfriend lives in the United States and wants to buy a VCR that will
play
> British (PAL) video tapes.

She'll also need a TV that can handle 625 line PAL as well... not very
common at all in the US, I'm afraid!

However,she could buy a standards converting VCR which allows true
conversion between the two video formats, in which case she could play PAL
tapes and they would be converted (fairly roughly!) to NTSC for display on
a standard US TV. I'd suggest the Samsung SV-5000 - that's what I use at
work for that sort of job. Also the Panasonic NV-W1, although I think it
may be out of production now.

Steve

[Douglas B. Killings]

"Christopher W. Davies" wrote:

> My girlfriend lives in the United States and wants to buy a VCR that will play
> British (PAL) video tapes.
>

> I would be very grateful if someone in the US who has such a machine, or anyone
> that knows of such a machine could tell me the make, model and approximate
> price.

You can get multi-standard VCR's pretty much anywhere now. I've even seen them at
Best Buy.

Here's one from off of Amazon, to give you an idea:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TEUK/qid%3D969486693/002-2736395-6890460

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[Jefferson Eng]

In article <20000920174221...@ng-fr1.aol.com>,

davi...@aol.comdimspam (Christopher W. Davies) wrote:

>My girlfriend lives in the United States and wants to buy a VCR that will
play
>British (PAL) video tapes.
>
>I would be very grateful if someone in the US who has such a machine, or
anyone
>that knows of such a machine could tell me the make, model and approximate
>price.

Multi-standard VCRs that do the conversion themselves are very hard to come
by. I've seen models made by Aiwa and Samsung that seem to be only available
either on the internet or in stores that sell top of the line models, but they
are quite pricey....I believe the cheapest I've found is $500 for the Samsung
model of which the sepcific model number escapes me right now...

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