PAL video in the states

Tony Duell ard.p850ug1 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 12:05:28 CST 2017


On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 4:18 PM, Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> Just yesterday I was looking at roughly the opposite question: how to make a DVD (in the USA)
> that my sister in Holland would be able to use.  The impression I got is that PAL DVD players wil
> l usually accept NTSC DVDs, and modern PAL TVs will accept a *digital* data stream of NTSC
> video from such a player.  But that doesn't necessarily mean they will accept NTSC analog (for
> VCR output for example).  Your report fits that story.

No, this TV will accept analogue NTSC video (such as from a VCR, or I
assume an Apple ][, not
that I have tried it).

But what one earth is a 'digital data stream of NTSC video'?

-tony


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