Paul kersey (Comandante)
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 Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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| PeterB wrote: | | AkuTyger wrote: | | Either way, everything is still in black and white ... ....except my father brought one as a graduation gift for Fuzzy from the U.S. when he came. |
Aku, have I got it right -- you're connecting an American DVD player to a Brazilian TV set?
If that's the case, then everything will indeed be in black and white.
In terms of their transmission parameters (frequency etc) tv systems vary widely over the world. The US uses a system called NTSC. Brazil's is called PAL-M, which is a unique mix of some of NTSC's and some of the European PAL's features.
A Brazilian PAL-M tv set does work with NTSC transmissions, but only not for the colors. If you take a Brazilian tv to the US, you won't get any colors - and the same goes for American tv sets in Brazil.
Due to historical reasons, the videotapes and DVDs made in Brazil are actually recorded in NTSC, so Brazilian videos and DVDs can easily be taken to the US and watched in color there.
However, for them to be played in Brazilian tv sets, the VCRs and DVD players have a built-in device that converts the NTSC signals recorded into PAL-M ones that the Brazilian tv sets can understand.
And that's what your American DVD player lacks: it doesn't convert the NTSC signals into PAL-M; so your Brazilian tv set can only get the NTSC recording - therefore, in black and white.
There's nothing you can do by simply fiddling with the settings. You have the following alternatives:
1) there are devices that can be installed between the DVD player and the tv set to convert the NTSC into PAL-M; try to get one (image may lose a bit of quality; though)
2) a good technician maye be able to do install one inside your DVD player
3) get an US tv, just for the purpose of watching DVDs in your player
4) get a Brazilian DVD player.
There is another issue, of course, of the regions -- is your US DVD player multi-region, or just region 1? |
I don't know how many years you have been living outside of Brazil, but there's no PAL-M system for DVDs in Brazil, we use the exactly same color system as the U.S. While our OLD TV sets were all PAL-Ms, most recent ones all are multi-system and there's simply no DVD player that is not NTSC. |
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