Amiga 1200 PAL <--> NTSC

[leirbag28]

@Akira

Philips TV's (and probably Magnavo's)  Support PAL mode............when I connect any of my NTSC amigas to them and then switch them to PAL mode, the PHILIPS TV shrinks the screen to a more appropriate size (to compensate for the more lines in PAL) and keeps the image in color.

 Remember, PHILIPS were the ones who Made the Commodore 1084s monitors and the CMK88II or whatever you call that monitor, and other commodore monitors including the chips on the FMV card for the CD32, so they know alot about PAL Mode.

Not all PHILIPS TV's support it, so I suggest lugging your A1200 or better yet your A600 to the shop to test them like I do :-)...take an RF modulator, a composite cable and maybe a Genlock with S-Video OUT (some TV's only give you PAL through the S-Video port)

[leirbag28]

@Hyperspeed

American TV's do not have SCART, they have S-Video, Composite and RF and Component wich is those 3 Red Green and Blue cables in the Back og HDTV's and DVD players.

Mosst people use S-Video.and composite.why?  because you want to record to Video?  or your TV simply has no other option...............dont know what S-Video looks like in Europe.........but here in USe it looks almost exactly like RGB. extremely crisp, as for composite?  Sony TV's sem to have this down paccked as their TV's make composite look like S-Video.........kinda like the way the SuperGen SX genlock for the Amiga, makes the Composite signal clearer............maybe Sony TV's with Trinitron have a Genlock or transcoder inside? dunno.

But anyway.......I recommend a PHILIPS TV.I think it will display all PAL modes in color.............because I have a Projector that says it supports all types of PAL modes, but when I connect it...........its in Black and white.arrrggg!!!

Remember PHILPS made the Commodore 1084s  so its quite a big chance that their tv' support more than one kind of PAL...............you'll never know till ya try.  I know I have and PAL looks good on it..............just a little bit aquished in my opinion though.........but they do that o you get the entire image.