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Will Panasonic AG-1980 playback PAL?

Will a Panasonic AG1980 or 5710 playback PAL tapes or just NTSC?

See http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...html#post37136

The NV-FS200 and NV-HS-1000 are comparable to the 1980.
Those are PAL.
1980 is NTSC.

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Originally Posted by lordsmurf (Post 46003)

See http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...html#post37136

The NV-FS200 and NV-HS-1000 are comparable to the 1980.
Those are PAL.
1980 is NTSC.

This is inaccurate.
The NV-FS200 is a consumer machine comparable in design and appearance to the AG-1970 (the predecessor to the 1980).
The NV-HS1000, though it may have some similar features, is something completely different.

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Originally Posted by editman21 (Post 74192)

The NV-FS200 is a consumer machine

Ridiculous. This was advertised/marketed as a professional "editing" deck. There's nothing "consumer" about S-VHS, TBCs, nor the $1k+ MSRP at the time.

As I've written elsewhere, the NV-FS200NX is an AG-1980.

The FS200 does not perform like an AG-1970, even if sharing some parts. The 1970 is pretty craptastic, noisy, very weak NR. The FS200 is not that.

While the NV-FS200 and NV-HS1000 may not be truly "PAL versions" of the AG-1980P, both are comparable in performance.

Related: http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...html#post58278

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The Panasonic FS200 ( & JVC HR-S9600) is one of the most recommended SVHS Recorders on the german market. That's the reason why they are more expensive as other players like for example the HS1000. The HS1000 was the successor of the FS200. Both have noise reduction, edit mode & TBC. The TBC from the HS1000 isn't really good. The picture from the HS1000 is a little bit sharper (more noise) as the picture from the FS200.

Also: http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/vide...html#post71469

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If you look at the service manuals, the NV-FS200 shares almost all internals and mechanism with the 1970P. Based on the service manuals, I think the NV-FS950 is the PAL model with closest video decoding circuitry to the 1980P. Both feature fancy digital video decoders and digital noise reduction using some of the same ICs, though the construction of the 950 is a bit different like being mid-mount, and it's not quite as advanced as the 1980P. The 1980P is a bit special as as far as I can tell it has 3 sets of video heads instead of the normal 2, which may explain it's great SLP performance since there's one set for each speed. The NV-HS1000 sits somewhere in between the FS200 and NV-HS950 tech and age-wise, it shares the K-mechanism with the 1980 and 950 (FS200 and 1970 has G mech), but has more standard analog video circuitry + TBC like the FS200/1970P, though a bit newer and more compacted than those.

Back to the question: No, NTSC VHS VCRs don't play PAL tapes properly. Many PAL VCRs feature NTSC playback with some limitations, but the reverse was never much of a thing. You will need a PAL or multi-system VCR.

IME, with the TBC enabled, it will play back some PAL video signal... but not accurately enough to produce anything meaningful.

Hi. The AG-1980 is an NTSC-only machine. The European NV-FS200 can play back NTSC tapes but only as NTSC 4.43 and not the true NTSC (3.58).

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