Standard Pal or Secam?
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Hello,
I want to buy a Panasonic DVD recorder, either the dmr-xw380efk or the dmr-pwt500ec with a hard drive. The first one is compatible with SECAM, PAL, and NTSC, while the second one is only compatible with PAL and NTSC...
Is the second one still compatible for use in France? Note: I have a HD TNT 1080i/1080p Sony Bravia kdl-32ex402.
I want to buy a Panasonic DVD recorder, either the dmr-xw380efk or the dmr-pwt500ec with a hard drive. The first one is compatible with SECAM, PAL, and NTSC, while the second one is only compatible with PAL and NTSC...
Is the second one still compatible for use in France? Note: I have a HD TNT 1080i/1080p Sony Bravia kdl-32ex402.
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Hello friend
FORGET about SECAM! It's over with analog, which has been swept away with the advent of digital. Commercial DVDs are either in PAL or NTSC, it's written on them. I haven't seen a DVD in Secam, or very few, since the advent of DVD; they quickly disappeared as they were isolated in international standards.
To record TNT, you will have to go through analog and that's a shame
(Peritel or RCA connections with multiple cables) few TVs provide an analog signal on their rare Peritel sockets, and even on LG, you have to set the TV to analog mode, which prevents recording TNT as it is digital; A "Mac Gyver" solution might be to power your recorder with an external TNT box (sold to provide converted analog TNT for our old TVs) which is still suitable for a "recorder"; I repeat, it will not be HD quality since the digital signal is converted to analog; The Akira DHB-B36HR box sold at Auchan or online offers undeniable quality in terms of value for money and will also open up possibilities for USB recording/playback to an external and mobile hard drive, for example. Your nice DVD recorder has had its "arms cut off" by the restrictions on recording from certain channels and their "rights holders"; digital thus allows for very effective anti-copy locks.
Cheers and Happy Holidays!-
Thank you for your insightful advice... My Sony Bravia TV is HD TNT with 2 SCART sockets AV1 (21 pins, with audio/video input, RGB input, S-Video input, and analog TV audio/video output) and AV2 (same as AV1 except for the last feature which is only audio/video output), 1 AV3 (audio phono input and video input), 4 HDMI, 1 USB... I am also subscribed to Canal, so the modem acts as a TNT decoder if I'm not mistaken, but I'm not an expert... So, even with that, if I only connect via HDMI, I will only have the national channels: TF1, Antenne 2, la 3... Happy end-of-year celebrations too...
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