PAL to NTSE Converter

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    PAL to NTSE Converter

    Hi
    Does anybody know wehre I could get a PAL to NTSE converter?

    We have a Tv from Canada - and were told that we would be able to operate it in Asia with this converter gadget - but do not knwo where to start looking.

    Help
    Gin


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    I'm not sure you can change from PAL to NTSC, unless the tv has the option already in it's menu options. I don't think you can buy a plug to do that, as far as i know?


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    A magazine (but suspect it was What Hi-Fi?) used to have adverts in the back pages for PAL to NTSC converters. I would be surprised if Ap Lui Street did NOT have them.


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    I haven't looked lately but I bought one from SSP a while ago.
    Inline box, Pal in NTSC out.


    Golden Computer Centre, downstairs.


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    where exactly, please?

    thank you for the refs.

    now we dont know Hk well at all - so where is ap lui street?
    and where is the golden computer centre?

    thanks,
    Gin


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    http://www.geoexpat.com/about-hong-k.../apliu-street/

    BUT -- you might find something closer to where you live, if you ask the nearest AV shop.

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    I still do not think it will work. If you have a Candian TV (which I assume is the same as one from the US), it probably would not receive the HK TV channels (UHF channels 21 - 69). Furthermore the converter (with video in/out connectors) only converts video signal (those from a VHS tape recorder, DVD player etc.) and not the radio frequency (RF) signal off the antenna.

    A TV receives signal from the air (RF) [in different frequencies/channels] and decode it in colour [using a PAL or a NTSC decoder] so dealing with the PAL/NTSC issue alone may not help.

    Chances are that you have to buy a HK VHS tape recorder or a TV reception box and then put the PAL to NTSC box in between the video signal of the recorder/reception box and your TV, and then use your recorder/reception box as the tuner.

    Would be interested to see how it would be sorted.


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    thanks all

    thanks for the location.
    hope this works.