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    Originally Posted by silverlage View Post
    I need the PAL tape to play. That's all. And no there is no upconverter for the power adapter. You just slide the sucker on.
    An NTSC tape should play and might show B&W picture on the TV. You don't seem to think anything is wrong, even though the VCR won't play an NTSC tape. Cool, then lets just pretend that there is no possibility that anything wrong with the VCR, or the way it is set up and get down to business.

    You can't watch a PAL tape using that VCR and an NTSC TV without connecting a scan converter between the two. Get the scan converter or get a multi-system LCD TV. B&H sells those too, but of course they cost much more than the scan converter.
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  2. I haven't read the whole thread, but my Philips PAL VCR has a "colour mode" button. Normally you'd leave it on "auto" and I think PAL stays as PAL and NTSC stays as NTSC, but you can force an output mode and it'll convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL. Nothing similar for your PAL player? My CRT TV would accept either a PAL or NTSC input so I don't recall ever changing the colour mode setting.

    I suspect you'd only find the feature on what would at the time have been a higher priced model. I doubt budget VCRs would convert and chances are they'd only play PAL.

    This one appears to play PAL and NTSC (Edit: after looking a second time there's no indication it converts).
    http://www.manualslib.com/manual/179831/Philips-Vr1100-02x.html?page=20

    This one appears to output the selected format and record in either format too.
    http://www.manualslib.com/manual/542832/Philips-Vr220-75.html?page=10#manual

    How easy a player like that would be to find I don't know (I live in Australia ie PAL-land).......

    No option to capture the tapes using a PC, convert them to NTSC DVD format and burn them to disc? Capture cards aren't expensive and it'd allow you to forget about PAL playback hassles.

    If your player does have the ability to convert you'd probably need to ensure it isn't set to so when playing NTSC tapes as chances are the TV won't like the PAL input.
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    Face it. You fell into the "multisystem VCR" trap like so many other Americans have done in the past.
    A multisystem VCR is nothing but a (modern)PAL VCR......period. If your TV has anything to do with the letters N, T, S or C.....forget about watching that tape.
    Trust me.....I was born and raised in the US and was a fan of several Australian recording artists. It wasn't a fun time for me.....or an inexpensive time.
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    Originally Posted by hello_hello View Post
    I haven't read the whole thread, but my Philips PAL VCR has a "colour mode" button. Normally you'd leave it on "auto" and I think PAL stays as PAL and NTSC stays as NTSC, but you can force an output mode and it'll convert PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL. Nothing similar for your PAL player? My CRT TV would accept either a PAL or NTSC input so I don't recall ever changing the colour mode setting.
    There is section in the manual (on pages 28 and 29) about the "Color System" button on the front panel of the OP's VCR. The right Color System setting would allow playing an NTSC tape as NTSC 3.58 for an NTSC TV. The VCR can also convert an NTSC signal to NTSC 4.43 to be compatible with many PAL TVs. It does not appear that the VCR can convert from PAL to NTSC 3.58.

    http://www.manualslib.com/manual/84145/Jvc-Hr-J461ms.html?page=28#manual
    http://www.manualslib.com/manual/84145/Jvc-Hr-J461ms.html?page=29#manual
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    So. Now, a manual exists, the first thing you do is get that NTSC tape to work. That may be a simple case of chosing the correct Color System from the front panel.

    Got that done and you can then concentrate on the raison-etre of your topic. Yes. We are back to a standards converter.
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