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Americans in NZ: am I right in thinking that all our video tapes recorded on SLP speed (i.e., 6-hr on 2-hr tape speed) will not play on NZ VCRs?

It seems that NZ VCRs have the same 2-speed system as UK, and I don't think US SLP tapes will work on playback if recorded in SLP mode.

Also, thanks to Rich Adams for all your help on this kind of matter in the past.
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[jonSE]

Matt

Pretty much guaranteed that your NTSC (US TV standard) tapes won't play on anything but US video players.

I guess you want to bring your history of family (or similar) tapes with you.

Best bet is to get them converted to MPEG so you can play them on your PC and they will then be forwards compatible as standards develop over the years.

Jon

[jonSE]

PS

NTSC is only 525 lines PAL (NZ standard) is 625 lines

PAL has colour info immediately after the sync pulse at the beginning of each line of the picture NTSC is different. Hence the acronym NTSC Never the same colour.

Jon

PS I am relaying this R is the TV Engineer

[mechidna]

But you can buy a multiple format VCR player right? I know you can for the TV and DVD players, but I didn't check on the VCR players.

[ErwinT]

There are quite a lot of multiple format (well... not really, "play back NTSC on PAL TV" is not fully converting NTSC to PAL, you can watch it, but not copy it for example) VCR's in NZ, but the speed issue is correct, they will play LP the European way.