Recommendations for NTSC Capable TV for UK Gamer?

24 Apr 2005 10:52 PM

Andrew McCall

Hi Folks,

I have recently bought a few Japanese consoles, and their output is
NTSC.

My main TV allows me to play the Japanese games, but in back and white
as its a PAL TV and isn't fully compatible with NTSC signals - because
of this I have decided to get a dedicated TV for playing games on.

I thought that most new TV's, even PAL ones, would allow NTSC playback
with no issues, but after trying my consoles on a number of friends
TV's I haven't found one that will work in colour yet!

Can anyone recommend a decent 14" or 21" TV thats available in the UK.
I am on a tight budget, so the cheaper the better :)

Thanks in advance,

Andrew McCall

26 Apr 2005 11:51 PM

Jukka Aho

Andrew McCall wrote:

> I have recently bought a few Japanese consoles, and their output
> is NTSC.
>
> My main TV allows me to play the Japanese games, but in back and
> white as its a PAL TV and isn't fully compatible with NTSC signals
> - because of this I have decided to get a dedicated TV for playing
> games on.

If the console can output its video signal in the RGB format (and if you
can find or build a suitable video cable for connecting the RGB output
of the console to the Scart socket of your telly), you will probably be
able to view the games in colour, even on your old tv set. Using RGB as
the signal format will completely bypass any NTSC/PAL colour
encoding/decoding and you will usually get a better picture that way,
too.

Then again, some of the older game consoles may not support RGB at all.
It's worth checking, anyway. Google for the make and model of your
console and "RGB".

--
znark

27 Apr 2005 5:47 PM

Larry Oravetz

Video trans coders are available to correct the differences between pal or
any other format and ntsc.. Some are expensive(broadcast quality) others are
more reasonable.
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"Andrew McCall" <andrew.mcc***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Folks,
>
> I have recently bought a few Japanese consoles, and their output is
> NTSC.
>
> My main TV allows me to play the Japanese games, but in back and white
> as its a PAL TV and isn't fully compatible with NTSC signals - because
> of this I have decided to get a dedicated TV for playing games on.
>
> I thought that most new TV's, even PAL ones, would allow NTSC playback
> with no issues, but after trying my consoles on a number of friends
> TV's I haven't found one that will work in colour yet!
>
> Can anyone recommend a decent 14" or 21" TV thats available in the UK.
> I am on a tight budget, so the cheaper the better :)
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Andrew McCall
>