Not sure this is the right section so will risk general opprobrium by posting the prob. 'cos you guys should make short work of it! I have an ageing NEI (Romanian?) CRT TV set. I lve in London so it receives using UK Pal standard. Without changing it, (I'm stingy!) I want to connect to a Sky Now TV box (£10.00!) so I can get Internet telly and catch up TV. The problem is that the Sky box only outputs NTSC video on its analog AV output. Does anybody know (or guess!) whether the set will be able to display it? Its a fairly recent (1990 - 1995) CRT set and some of them can handle dual standards. Anybody got any ideas? Sorry to post such a simple query but I'm a mere Linux engineer and this megahertz stuff is Greek to me! Ta Martin
It's a 50/50 chance, look up the model number and find the manual or specs.. otherwise se you can get a cheap NTSC to pal converters on eBay, these don't change the refresh rate however but that shouldn't be a problem.
Moved to off topic. Uhh, Romania uses PAL D or G, UK uses PAL I. Why do you ask about NTSC? Sky is British, it doesn't output NTSC at all. The video bandwidth and sound carriers between Pal I and D/G are different, so you shouldn't get anything UK on it (analogue television included) if it isn't PAL I, unless perhaps you're using RGB SCART. Or it's been modified. Or your equipment has a switch on it. Sky Now TV uses either HDMI, which your television certainly won't have, or AV out. You have to buy the AV cable for £5, though. And again, it will only give you a PAL I signal, so your television will have to have composite in (the red, white and yellow phono sockets) that accepts PAL I. Oh, and Sky mostly broadcasts in widescreen, of course. Get a cheap widescreen smart television - around the £200 mark. It'll do catch up TV out of the box. Or use your computer - even cheaper!
