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[bubosquared]

Free to good home: tapes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. They're practically new, UK format, English version, and non-subtitled. Five tapes in total, of Season Three, volume 9 through 13. (Episodes: Visionary through The Adversary.)

Whoever wants them can have them at price of postage (PayPal, trading, whatever. I'm flexible, we cna work something out.) Leave a message if you want them; first come, first serve.

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[jackluminous.livejournal.com]

UK format...as in "not compatible with American format"? I know nothing about video formats, but I love Deep Space Nine. Do you know if it'd work?

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't think so, pet. I can play both, but as far as I know, there's no NSCT recorders that can play VHS (erm, or whatever the official name of European/UK format is), though you might want to have a look at your VCR's manual to check.

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[jackluminous.livejournal.com]

Meh...technically, I don't even have a VCR. I use my housemate's. Whose manual has been lost in the Closet of No Return. *sigh* T'was worth a try. I will have to get my DS9 fix elsewhere.

Ask the tv expert.

[wimmeke.livejournal.com]

Allthough all I do is compiling the software that goes in TV's around here... So no active expertise, but we all got basic boot camp training on how tv's work in general.

Anyway, Europe uses PAL, belgium uses PAL-B as a format (close enough Sofie).

In the US it's NTSC, they are not convertible because you people have 60Hz power lines and us europeans have 50Hz power lines, as a result, your movies have 30Frames/Second and our movies have 25Frames/Second.

Thats why it doesn't work. I was asked by my Brazilian Friend to send her a tape of local tv-shows and programs before she moved over here, to get the idea.

Well, the only idea we got was that it didn't work. It's not just the video frames even, the sound is recorded in an entirely different way, so even if you could catch a glimpse of what is on the tape trough the noise, there would still be no sound.

See if your equipment supports the PAL/European format to be sure. The more advanced types could have internal converters, like if your VCR has over 4 heads, there is a small chance it might be supported. It might require a manual setting, and some equipment can be 'fooled' by selecting the 'right' installation country on the set ;-)

I hope that was not too much inside information ;-)