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| Thread ID: 123919 | 2012-03-25 21:54:00 | PAL versus NTSC for digital camera | gradebdan (2186) | PC World Chat |
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| 1266733 | 2012-03-25 21:54:00 | Hi, I have been trawling the net looking at a particular digital camera. The cheaper model has NTSC for the video side not PAL. Would this be a problem? I have been told that digital tv.s can accept either. |
gradebdan (2186) | ||
| 1266734 | 2012-03-25 22:25:00 | Yeah most modern TV's will take both. On an older TV you should find it'll display greyscale anyway. Don't modern digital cameras come with HDMI out or something these days anyway? | forrest44 (754) | ||
| 1266735 | 2012-03-26 00:52:00 | I would get PAL since that is the standard format in NZ, if you end up wanting to connect it to an older TV or other device, the NTSC one likely won't work. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1266736 | 2012-03-26 01:00:00 | Radio techs I've worked with called it "Never The Same Colour twice", apparently NTSC has lesser colour accuracy than PAL but is better in some other respects. For a modern digital camera I doubt you'd notice the difference though, really it just depends what you intend to do with the recordings and what they will be played on. Worst case scenario you could use a PC to convert from NTSC to PAL if you had to. |
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| 1266737 | 2012-03-26 02:20:00 | Thanks for all the above. It seems that price will be my main consideration. |
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