Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Nick Ferguson Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Sony Trinitron (was Re: PAL -> NTSC? ) Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 18:59:26 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 18 Message-ID: <356319FE.7A86@saqnet.co.uk> References: <35609566.307AC@netmagic.net> <6js8ot$4p3@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <3561BAA0.215@livemedia.co.uk> <6jsh5g$4p11@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <3561D12A.4A6C@livemedia.co.uk> Reply-To: nickf@saqnet.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: atl4-041.publab.ed.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.03 (Win95; I) FYI, I have a 14 inch trinitron (the 2-in-one TV/VCR actually) and the only SCART lead I could get to work with it was the official Sony one. YOu're right - it IS a rip-off, but after trying several different leads it was the only one I could get to work. Yes, the other leads were ALL RGB Scart. I thought I was really clued up on the whole video systems thing, but I can't work out why this was. I could get NTSC in color with the other leads, but the picture sort of faded in and out randomly. Well annoying.... My paranoia theory is that Sony fixed some of their tellys to ONLY work with the official lead (but then, my brother's mini-widescreen worked fine). Why can't someone take the brave step of releasing native NTSC consoles in Europe - I mean, MOST people have a SCART telly now and if they don't, well why don't they just pay an extra 15-20 for an NTSC/PAL converter..? At least we wouldn't have to play games slowly and in "widescreen". Sorry, but PAL RE2 and Tekken 2 are sooo s-l-o-w :-/ Nick "video standards facist" F