Ntsc play back on a uk tv

tav · Posted: 12 Mar 2020, 14:17

Hi I'm very new to laserdisc player I have purchased a ntsc/ pal player..I'm in the uk.when I play ntsc format discs the picture is very distorted..can anyone help with this please.

deadlegion · Posted: 12 Mar 2020, 14:32

Your tv isn't NTSC compatible? Been many years since I've seen a PAL only tv here.

je280 · Posted: 12 Mar 2020, 14:48

How old is your TV?

Most (all?) TVs sold over quite a number of years now should play your NTSC LDs with no issues.

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takeshi666 · Posted: 12 Mar 2020, 18:21

And if you have a combi player, pretty sure those let you convert NTSC to PAL output internally too? Mine does and it's about as bog standard a model as it gets.

odotb3 · Posted: 13 Mar 2020, 15:20

takeshi666 wrote:

And if you have a combi player, pretty sure those let you convert NTSC to PAL output internally too? Mine does and it's about as bog standard a model as it gets.

Yep. The 925 has a button on it to switch between pal/ntsc mode. If your tv doesn't support ntsc than press the button.

You say you have distortion? What kind? As far as I know the picture would only be black and white if it cant display ntsc? I had an old trinitron like that. Press the button on the player and the colour would pop in. What player do you have?

admin · Posted: 15 Mar 2020, 08:55

odotb3 wrote:

The 925 has a button on it to switch between pal/ntsc mode. If your tv doesn't support ntsc than press the button.

I still kick myself for not finding this button before -- that was years ago.

I used to think the CLD-D925 was great in PAL but OK in NTSC... until I switched the button from NTSC-> PAL to pure NTSC and suddenly the picture quality jumped!

http://manuals.lddb.com/LD_Players/Pioneer/CLD/CLD-D925/CLD-D925-EN-FR-DE-IT.pdf (page 30)

Quote:

Tip: When you play an NTSC format LD, it is recommended to switch the player to NTSC if your TV set is switchable to NTSC fornat.

Very recommended!

Julien

saeba · Posted: 16 Mar 2020, 10:23

Me too, it took a while to notice the system button, even though the 925 is my main player, it's just that my first ntsc acquisition is still fairly recent and I still have less than 10 ntsc titles.
But I tinkered a bit with it and, to be honest, I found the picture of the 925 in ntsc mode is not great (tried it on a few tvs, old and new), there is a lot of aliasing on the edges of everything in the picture (because of ntsc's lower resolution ?) and I find the pal modulated mode to give a really cleaner picture, even though it comes at a loss of colors, it's still redeemable by turning up the color saturation on the tv's settings and it then gives a really nice and clean image for my ntsc discs.

As for the op's issue, we'll need to know what tv you're using to try and help you.

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