Tsugumi(Tsugumi@Tsugumi.karoo.co.uk) added > >> Blimey! What they'd make of me paying £28 for Bubblegum Crisis > >> #8 doesn't bear thinking about... > > > > Come to think of it, what we paid for our anime back then > > doesn't bear thinking about by us! ^_^ > > > > Agreed! > We used to buy NTSC vids despite not having a NTSC player. Luckily > there was a shop around the corner that would convert the tapes to > PAL for £12 per hour. > That actually seemed to make sense at the time as well... I didn't quite go that far, actually I didn't know of anywhere that would do NTSC -> PAL conversion. I didn't start buying NTSC tapes until I'd brought a VCR that had an NTSC on PAL playback facility. == Peter == ----------------------------------------------------- "There's no such thing as a weapon that doesn't kill" (Chise: Saikano)
"Peter Boulter" wrote in message news:memo.20080106154813.2768A@starhunter.compulink.co.uk... > > I didn't quite go that far, actually I didn't know of anywhere that would > do > NTSC -> PAL conversion. > I didn't start buying NTSC tapes until I'd brought a VCR that had an NTSC > on > PAL playback facility. > I remember picking up a cheapo VCR and discovering when I got it home that played NTSC. It wasn't even mentioned in the manual, that was a happy day ^_^ Tsugumi -- Ah - Lord Haversham! I haven't seen you since 1869 - but then we were both cardboard...
