PAL/NTSC Issues

[Berty]

Hi,

I recently bought i jap saturn, i was unable to use it on my old 50Hz PAL TV because when i used the composite video leads, the picture just rolled. However managed to get it to work in Black and White when i used a RF box from my PAL saturn into the same TV.

Can someone else please verify this so i know that it just isnt a fluke.

I used an official PAL RF box with the slider set to "1" not "0" pluged into a 50Hz only TV from a white NTSC Saturn.

If this does work, i would like to figure a way to pallete shift a PAL RF box so it could be in colour.

Thanks again.

 

[Curtis]

It's nothing to do with your RF unit, it's just what happens when you run NTSC on a PAL television. What you need to buy is a NTSC-to-PAL converter. Many online video game shops sell these.

 

[Berty]

You dont understand what im trying to point out. I tried using the composite video inout into the tv, but it rolled continously in B+W. When i used my PAL RF box it stopped the roling ie trhe 60Hz Frequency was re-transmitted as a 50Hz one. My pal TV only supports 50Hz so that is why i was curious. Could someone else please verify this so i know that it isnt just my tv

 

[Curtis]

You don't understand what I'm trying to explain (or I'm not explaining it very well). For what ever reason, the RF modulator fixed the issue of the 50/60Htz incompatabilities - causing the rolling image - however this is only half of the problem. Beside operating at a different frequency, an NTSC signal also encodes color information in a different way to a PAL signal. The two formats are not compatible, so the picture displays in B&W.

To fix this, you need the NTSC-to-PAL converter mentioned above.

 

[daffy duck]

its your tv it wont accept 60 hz frequency without rolling no cure for that dude other than buy a new tv

or maybe adjust the horizontal / vertical inside your tv

ull find them all tvs have them.

but i doubt that will help its really down to your tv not able to accept 60 hz so it must be a rather old tv in which case it dont have a scart socket on it.if this is the case then get a new tv .save yourself messing about .