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  1. Can you connect a 110 volt NTSC Only VCR to a PAL TV trough RF??
    And watch movie in color with sound?
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    Don't think so. Virtually ANY PAL vcr will playback NTSC tapes in full colour on a PAL tv but a NTSC vcr will have all the wrong timings and colour signal.
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  3. Will use it with NTSC tapes not with PAL tapes.

    I had a NTSC CED player with only RF, a PAL disc give this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShqJmNWNw0U

    A NTSC disc give only noise.
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    Like I said, a NTSC vcr will send the wrong colour signal to a PAL tv. At best you get a B&W picture.

    One could, in the past, get standards converters which change the NTSC colour to PAL colour. Then you could use the PAL tv fully. (Still require a power adapter since I guess your voltage is not 110)


    A PAL vcr will, however, convert the NTSC colour signal and playback NTSC tapes in full colour. No standards converter required and no power adapter either - maybe a change of plug but that's all.
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  5. Can you tell/link what converters you mean?

    I only know that converters for composite, not RF.



    And in menu these says there is M system:
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    Originally Posted by anonymoustly View Post
    Can you connect a 110 volt NTSC Only VCR to a PAL TV trough RF??
    And watch movie in color with sound?
    You cannot connect NTSC RF-out on the VCR directly to the RF-in on a PAL TV and expect to get a picture of any kind. The RF-out on an NTSC VCR uses NTSC channel 3 or NTSC channel 4 to provide a signal that an NTSC TV can tune. PAL TVs have a PAL tuner that cannot tune an NTSC signal.

    You would need to connect the NTSC VCR's composite-out to the NTSC composite-in connection on an NTSC to PAL composite video converter. The PAL composite-out on the converter would need to be connected to the composite-in connection of a PAL RF modulator. The PAL RF modulator's RF-out would be connected to the TV's RF.
    Last edited by usually_quiet; 11th Feb 2022 at 21:55.
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  7. Hello, here i have a picture, direct NTSC RF on PAL TV.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShqJmNWNw0U
    Ofcourse it is not good and useless, but at least i have some identified picture.
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  8. PAL TV's usually accept NTSC video without problems (at least you should get B/W picture), audio on RF is different topic.
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    If you did not use RF (let's say Composite instead) it would work out of the box with any European TV made in the last 15 years*, and with many but not all before that (with the number decreasing until you hit about 1990 where it approaches zero percent).

    * well, minus the the HDMI-only ones (wouldn't ever buy such lol).

    Edit: Yes, I am talking about NTSC color, not PAL60.
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