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nirvanix
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« on: February 10, 2003, 06:36:08 AM »
Hi,

My apologies in advance if this is a silly question. I'm thinking of buying an SN41G and I noticed that it has TV support for the graphics display. Currently I'm working in a country that uses PAL for TVs, but I may be transferred to an NSTC country in a few months. My question is, will the SN41G produce the display on either type of TV system, or only for the country that I buy it in because it has been preset by the manufacturer? Or is this all determined by the media (DVD or VCD disc, video cassette) itself? These varying standards are annoying - the voltage thing is bad enough!

thanks,
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nirvanix
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« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2003, 06:36:08 AM »
display compatibility with PAL/NSTC
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dock
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« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2003, 07:11:07 AM »
You can select which frequency you want to output with your graphics card.  I usually set mine to 60hz (NTSC) even though I live in a PAL region (50hz is PAL standard).  This gives a higher refresh rate and generally I think it looks better this way.  Don't worry about TV-output.  Your shuttle doesn't really know (or care) which country it lives in.  
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« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2003, 07:17:32 AM »
I thought that PAL had a higher resolution than NTSC? The advice I seem to get is that PAL is usually the superiour given the choice between NTSC and PAL. Sorry not an expert but just interested in finding out some more...

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Tommy2Tall
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« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2003, 07:32:52 AM »
Yup, you can choose if you want NTSC or PAL (a bunch of different versions of each standard) in BIOS and/or in the displaydrivers in Windows, however when I choose PAL-B(DGHI) in BIOS the resolution seems to get too high for my TV (which is Swedish=PAL-B) and the 2-3 bottom rows of BIOS goes off-screen, this might have to do with me using S-video only, no CRT-monitor at all.. and when I come to think of it I reset it to NTSC-M after that discovery and haven't changed it since I got Windows2K installed so that might be an effect in BIOS-mode only since the displaydrivers seems to work fine.
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nirvanix
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« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2003, 10:16:17 PM »
Hey, thanks very much for all your answers. I am now going to proceed with an XPC purchase - yipee!
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