23 May
2010
23 May
'10
8 a.m.
PAL and SECAM are color encoding schemes, they are completely different. They will of
course display black and white if you use one on the other and vice versa. The same is
true if you also use an NTSC TV to display PAL (sync rates aside, usually that can be
tuned with a V-hold adjustment or automatically by the set).
On May 23, 2010, at 4:34 AM, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
On 23/05/2010 10:15, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Jason T wrote:
Though isn't SECAM essentially PAL but with the colour encoded slightly differently.
e.g. if you feed a SECAM signal to a PAL display you get a picture that is black and
white.
Cheers.
Phill.
(And to those with experience with Eastern Euro
machines, what is
needed to run them on US power? Just a 220v->110v converter, or does
the video have to be processed from PAL->NTSC as well?)
Bulgaria in those days wouldn't have been PAL. They would have been
using SECAM.