A slight clarification, in Australia we have the PAL Television system as used in much of Europe. In the U.S.A. they use the NTSC (never the same colour) Television system, the signals of the two are incompatible, however some modern machines, both TV's and Videos have the ability to be switched from one system to the other. Hence the situation of some people being able to watch the videos and some not. The VHS system refers to the method of storing the signal on the video tape and not the type of signal on the tape. Most videos are nowadays VHS however there are probably some who still have the old (and better) BETA sytem but they are few and far between. You can liken the beta and vhs argument to PC and Mac in computers every one knows that Mac is better but not many buy them cos you cant get the same amount of purpose made software etc. just as you don't see many beta videos in the video stores! Regards Tony from Bairnsdale ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beverly" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 7:47 AM Subject: Re: [A.G.R. ] Family reunion Video > Dear Denise, I met with that same problem. I live in Arizona and here in > the USA we have the VHS system. In Australia they have the PAL system. > If you can find a transcribing service that can put the VHS into its machine > and a blank in the PAL machine and get the two machines to "talk to each > other", you should have a tape that you can view. > > On the other hand, if you have the same cam corder that they used at the > reunion, you can view it on the cam corder and look at a 2inch x 2 inch > screen to see what the reunion was all about. > hope this helps, > cheers, Beverly Markham. > Life on Earth is Expensive, but at least > you get a free trip around the sun....... > So wear a hat and enjoy the ride! > > > > ==== AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH Mailing List ==== > Have you visited AUSSIE-GEN-RESEARCH Web site yet? > Please do? And do sign our visitors book? > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ausgenres/ > ************************************************************************ > SAVE OUR CENSUS! ON 7 AUG 2001 TICK "YES" > Want to know more? > See: http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/~affho/affho-07.htm > ==================================================== > Virus warnings are not to be sent to the List! > ==================================================== > Searchable Archives at > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=AUS-GEN-RESEARCH -L > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > >