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Title: Australian Power and Video Encoding System
Post by: Daniele on May 24, 2007, 10:45:49 PM

Hello Guys,

since I always dreamed about an Amiga 4000 and I see that in Australian thay are not so expensive like in Europe I was wondering if they had the same 220V Power and PAL like in Europe or they have the same standards used in USA.

Any idea?

Title: Re: Australian Power and Video Encoding System
Post by: persia on May 24, 2007, 11:23:11 PM

We use standard 220V 50Hz current and PAL is the video standard, but really video standards only meant something when there were tubes in TVs.  Modern TVs, no matter where they are sold, have multisystem RGB, it was the picture tube that caused the incompatibility, when that was gone everything works.  All TVs now are the same except for the tuner.

Title: Re: Australian Power and Video Encoding System
Post by: Homer on May 24, 2007, 11:25:07 PM

Are you asking if an Oz A4000 would be PAL or NTSC, 110 or 230V ?

I guess they match the country !  :-?

Title: Re: Australian Power and Video Encoding System
Post by: Daniele on May 24, 2007, 11:35:52 PM

yes,

I am italian and would like to buy an A4K on ebay AU!

Title: Re: Australian Power and Video Encoding System
Post by: shillard on May 25, 2007, 12:32:19 AM

Cool - buy one of mine!    :-D


The PSU requires no modification and they will display on a PAL TV.

Title: Re: Australian Power and Video Encoding System
Post by: mikrucio on May 25, 2007, 02:04:15 AM

www.lojamiga.com

has brand new A1200 magic packs in portugal.
They are PAL. it's prob the best bet for you man..

(he might have an A4000 too)

Title: Re: Australian Power and Video Encoding System
Post by: Iggy_Drougge on May 25, 2007, 08:41:24 PM

Quote

persia wrote:
Modern TVs, no matter where they are sold, have multisystem RGB, it was the picture tube that caused the incompatibility, when that was gone everything works.  All TVs now are the same except for the tuner.

It's not the tube, it's the tuner.

Title: Re: Australian Power and Video Encoding System
Post by: Tomas on May 25, 2007, 09:07:23 PM

Most 10 year old or newer crt tv sets also support ntsc input..