There is one limitation to be aware of though. Many machines will play NTSC tapes at SP speed only. At 03:19 10/01/2002 -0800, you wrote: >When you say that you know that you cannot use NTSC tapes, is that because >you've asked the institute where you are giving the talk or because you >assume that British machines are incompatible with the NTSC format??? > >A lot of British VCRs actually play NTSC tapes even if they don't look as if >they are meant to (it's usually the older machines that don't). There can be >loss of quality, the degree of which depends on the machine. But I've got >what is possibly the cheapest VCR on the UK market and it plays NTSC tapes >more or less perfectly. Expensive machines may even have a PAL/NTSC switch >on them. _________________________ C. Paul Sellors Dept. of Cinema Studies, NYU [log in to unmask] ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html