Pal to NTSC advice?
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G'day all,
I thought I'd pick the brains of the AV savvy on here, regarding my situation... Forgive my incorrect lingo, but Im sure you will know what I'm after!
I've recently carried back our couple of year old Panasonic plasma tv from the US to my new home Hong Kong. Model number TC-P42S1. Being a yank device, it is NTSC, and not multi-region. It'd be going unused in the US, so I reckon it's worth a bash at getting it up and running here. Hong Kong is a Pal zone..
Ive collected a step down transformer the size of a car battery, so we shouldn't get a firework display, but now I need to tackle the formatting issue. My broadband tv is going to come from the wall, into the 'box' (Now Tv, if that helps anyone), and fed into the HDMI socket on the telly.
I've heard some folks in my position say it worked for them, others say they had to use the component wires instead, others had no joy, and needed either a Pal to NTSC converter, or a 'scaler' if using the HDMI cables. Some went thought the process of sending the tv signal through a DVD player or some such..
Is this a tv specific thing, and if so, can anyone guess whether I'll need to go and get any of these components? If so, would anyone be kind enough to share advice on them; are they all the same, or could anyone recommend anything? Unfortunately, this is pretty alien stuff to me, but I know there are some very knowledgable folks here. I posted the model number and tv provider, in case someone is able to glean information which I quite clearly can't.
Like I said, it's not getting used in the US, and I'm happy to spend a little to get it going here. I just don't want to follow the ETOPS well-trodden path of buying all manner of crap, to find out none of it helped..
Cheers all..
I thought I'd pick the brains of the AV savvy on here, regarding my situation... Forgive my incorrect lingo, but Im sure you will know what I'm after!
I've recently carried back our couple of year old Panasonic plasma tv from the US to my new home Hong Kong. Model number TC-P42S1. Being a yank device, it is NTSC, and not multi-region. It'd be going unused in the US, so I reckon it's worth a bash at getting it up and running here. Hong Kong is a Pal zone..
Ive collected a step down transformer the size of a car battery, so we shouldn't get a firework display, but now I need to tackle the formatting issue. My broadband tv is going to come from the wall, into the 'box' (Now Tv, if that helps anyone), and fed into the HDMI socket on the telly.
I've heard some folks in my position say it worked for them, others say they had to use the component wires instead, others had no joy, and needed either a Pal to NTSC converter, or a 'scaler' if using the HDMI cables. Some went thought the process of sending the tv signal through a DVD player or some such..
Is this a tv specific thing, and if so, can anyone guess whether I'll need to go and get any of these components? If so, would anyone be kind enough to share advice on them; are they all the same, or could anyone recommend anything? Unfortunately, this is pretty alien stuff to me, but I know there are some very knowledgable folks here. I posted the model number and tv provider, in case someone is able to glean information which I quite clearly can't.
Like I said, it's not getting used in the US, and I'm happy to spend a little to get it going here. I just don't want to follow the ETOPS well-trodden path of buying all manner of crap, to find out none of it helped..
Cheers all..
NTSC, PAL and SECAM are analogue systems. Your TV has an ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) tuner which will not work in HK.
The worse thing that can happen when connecting the TV to your STB using HDMI is no picture or sound with maybe an error message.
Putting things very crudely the American system uses 60 frames/minute and Europe (+HK) use 50 frames/minute. As most modern TVs have a "movie" mode of 24 frames/minute I am sure most could cope with 60 or 50 frame signals
The worse thing that can happen when connecting the TV to your STB using HDMI is no picture or sound with maybe an error message.
Putting things very crudely the American system uses 60 frames/minute and Europe (+HK) use 50 frames/minute. As most modern TVs have a "movie" mode of 24 frames/minute I am sure most could cope with 60 or 50 frame signals
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