Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Brian Baird Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: Sony Trinitron (was Re: PAL -> NTSC? ) Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:10:01 +0100 Organization: DMA Design Ltd Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3563E159.5E9@dma-design.com> 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> <356319FE.7A86@saqnet.co.uk> Reply-To: brian@dma-design.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.153.133.80 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Nick Ferguson wrote: > > 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 :-/ Sega released the Saturn without an RF lead in the box. They claimed that "most" console users now have SCART TVs. They were wrong - people had to spend an extra £25 on an 'official' RF unit & people got *very* annoyed - me included. NTSC vs PAL is also used to control releases & to allow companies to 'maximise' their money. If you could pay £30 for a US game instead of £50 for the UK version, what do you buy? -- Brian @ DMA [ All opinions & views are my own, not DMA's, yadda, yadda, yadda ]