Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Displaying PAL on an NTSC TV set

Displaying PAL on an NTSC TV set Video Clips. Duration : 1.93 Mins.


Modern digital televisions are actually multi-system, even if they don't advertise it. This very cheap new Pyle 15-inch LCD TV is an American NTSC model, but also displays PAL signals perfectly, and even shows the correct signal information (720x576i 50 Hz) on its status display. Maybe even SECAM would work, but I don't have any SECAM video sources to test it with. The big downside of this TV, however, is the latency ("lag") caused by the analog to digital coversion and HDTV upscaling, which averages around 1/10th of a second -- enough to make video games sluggish, unresponsive, and difficult to play.

Keywords: pal, ntsc, secam, video, system, systems, multi, multisystem, standard, multistandard, tv, television, set, monitor, lcd, digital, analog, conversion, display, amiga, cd32, famicom, atari, sega, commodore, amstrad, pyle, ptc16ld

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