<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 16, 2006, at 7:57 AM, James Fowler wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">I have gone through the goldfish archive and searched the user list archive on Gossamer-Threads. I cannot find what I am looking for:<BR><BR>A tuner that will <BR> 1) work with Myth <BR> 2) that supports both NTSC and PAL signals. <BR><BR>I move around frequently to different parts of the world. My TV only does NTSC. I need a tuner that will let me handle whatever signal is available and watch it on my NTSC TV, along with the rest of my collection. <BR clear="all"><BR>I would love to pay the extra and have hardware MPEG encoding, I can live without it though.<BR><BR>Is there a single tuner I can buy? Is it possible to have a PAL and an NTSC turner working simultaneously under Myth? <BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Many tuners will handle both NTSC and PAL, as well as the various frequency assignments you will encounter around the world.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But that doesn't appear to be your problem.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You say your TV will only handle NTSC, so tuning a PAL signal and recording it would not be of any help to you.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You need to standards convert the PAL signal in order to watch it on an NTSC set, a very different matter from simply recording it, and it has nothing to do with the tuner card.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You can get TV sets that will display both standards, but the tend to be expensive, or you will have to process the PAL signal after recording it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If it were me I would probably get a PAL-only set instead of an NTSC one, as you will lose quality by transcoding a PAL signal to NTSC, and the latter looks like crap already (Never Twice the Same Color).</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>