Black and White when playing PAL to NTSC

[Ivxample]

Hi there,

I have a PAL JVC Camcorder and am hooking it up to an NTSC TV. Whenever I playback, it comes out in black and white. Any ideas of how to get around this?

Thanks
Ivxample

[Gazorgan]

No problem. You have to open up you TV and move the Color sub carrier frequency. Do you have the schematics of your TV? You going to have to order a part probably, but you might be able to re-program the PIC. On a side note, if you are going to deal with RF, most PAL channels have a 6 Mhz audio subcarrier instead of the 4.5 Mhz in the US.


You can't do it, that's why there are dual PAL/NTSC TV's avaialble.

[Tommyknocker]

Trade the TV in for a multisystem, or the camera in for an NTSC model. You may also put the video into a computer, convert it to NTSC, put it into an (S)VCD or DVD disk and play it on a compatible DVD player. Other than that, there is no way I know of to make a PAL camcorder video play on an NTSC TV.