Video8 PAL/NTSC

Not typically. There may be a dual standard machine around somewhere, but I've never seen one.

Peter

Hi tony, No the best bet is buy a NTSC camcorder from USA , but to record your tapes, you will also need a Video converter to change NTSC to PAL. Could start getting very expensive Allan

Thanks for the replies. You see, what I want to do is digitising my old Video8 tapes. I haven't got a working camcorder to output them to a PC video card. The Sony DCR TRV480 camcorder does digital and analog. It can read Video8/High8 tapes and firewire them to a PC. Unfortunately PAL ones are hard to get but NTSC ones are plenty around. I could imagine that Sony doesn't use chip sets that are specialised on one standard. Ideally There could be a way to switch (code bridges/dip switch/ROM change) an NTSC camcorder to PAL, and bingo I could digitise my tapes. :-) Someone working in the field would possibly know how.

Thanks

Tony

hi, theres a sony vcr that will play ntsc in pal mode or was it other way round ?