Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[PINJOHN]

Marnie if you haven't already arranged something with Chris then i will send you some i dont have the ability to send cd's but if you have got a v.c player ,then i'm your man, recorded at half speed you will get twice as many episodes ...............bloody strange women

[chris-uk]

Marnie if you haven't already arranged something with Chris then i will send you some i dont have the ability to send cd's but if you have got a v.c player ,then i'm your man, recorded at half speed you will get twice as many episodes ...............bloody strange women

I'll have a go at an internet-age solution over the weekend, if I can't get something working we may have to resort to your steam-powered VCR John.

[EasternGirl]

Thanks you guys! You're the best!! Thank you for putting up with my strange preoccupation with Eastenders! I do have a VCR! My son has one so that he can watch his old Power Ranger videos...lol...we are all strange in this house...Of course, right now his obsession is WWE wrestling...don't even get me started with that.

[infernalis]

You are aware that UK VHS tapes will not play in an American VCR aren't you??

Europe uses 24 frames per second, and The USA uses 30 frames a second.

America uses NTSC (A National Television Standard) and Europe uses PAL (Phase Alteration by Line) meaning each line is reverse phase from the previous line.

These standards are irrelevant with DVD, Since DVD uses region coding to lock out players from other countries.

France uses it's very own standard too, as does Brasil. for a total of 4 completely incompatible video standards.

Not sure about right now, but Germany used to have one standard for each side of the Berlin wall.

World television standards and conversions

[EasternGirl]

Oh for the love of all that is holy! The powers that be do not want me to watch Eastenders do they?

[infernalis]

I just looked, and no luck with DVD & Not enough interest for any torrent files.

[EasternGirl]

Thanks for trying...I know they don't have it on DVD...they never released it on DVD. Maybe Chris can get it onto a digital file for me.

[infernalis]

If you were not so far away, I have a Euro VCR, and a Euro TV.

My obsession with European TV goes all the way back to 1988. Heck, I have wore out 3 PAL video machines over the years.

I still have a 3 tape set of "Live Aid" as broadcast on RAI (Italian TV) that was sent to me in the mail.

[EasternGirl]

Well darn...where can I get a Euro VCR? Do you think you can get one anywhere or do you think they're just impossible to find? I mean...you can still get American VCRs...for really cheap too.

[chris-uk]

My old VCR could switch between PAL and NTSC playback/recording. I'm going to see if I can capture video from iPlayer and encode as an MPEG or WMV.