Samsung SV-5000W manual Background to the Worldwide VCR, Worldwide TV Color System, Secam Mesecam

Background to the Worldwide VCR

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“Worldwide Communication through VCR”

Today the Video Recorder is a major media and communication tool, used for both business and home entertainment. Furthermore, the emergence of the camcorder has extended the versatility of the video with home video making.

Video communication is increasingly becoming a global medium, but the different TV broadcasting systems around the world hinder the worldwide exchange of video tapes.

The Samsung SV-5000W overcomes the incompatibility of different TV broadcasting systems through sophisticated digital technology, allowing any standard VHS tapes to be played on any TV, any where in the world (with free voltage).

Worldwide TV Color System

Many countries have different TV signal formats, with no exchangeability between them. This makes it impossible to play back or record tapes with different signal formats. This worldwide common VCR overcomes this problem by converting the signal format of any tape into the format you desire.

Comparison of TV color systems

			NTSC	NTSC4.43	PAL-M	PAL	PAL-N	SECAM MESECAM
	Number of			525				625
	scanning lines
	Field			60Hz			50Hz
	frequency
	Line frequency			15.734KHz			15.625KHz
	Color signal		Sub carrier suppression quadrature modulation					FM modulation
	modulation
	system
	Color signal		3.579545	4.433619	3.575611	4.433619	3.582056	DB 4.25MHz
	frequency		MHz	MHz	MHz	MHz	MHz	DR 4.40625MHz
	Burst signal		Fixed phase			Inverted by 1 H		DR.DB alternation
☛		Classification of TV color systems by country
➢		◆	NTSC	: Korea, U.S., Canada, Japan, Taiwan, and Philippines
		◆	PAL	: United Kingdom, Germany, Western Europe, China, and Singapore
		◆	SECAM	: France, Eastern Europe, and CIS
		◆	PAL-M	: Brazil

◆PAL-N : Argentina (The tape is the same as that of PAL)

◆NTSC4.43 : Pseudo NTSC signal which is made to use the NTSC tape in the Middle East (The tape is the same as that of NTSC3.58)

◆MESECAM : The name of a tape which uses the method of recording the SECAM signal. The output signal during playback is SECAM signal.

➢Worldwide Broadcasting system is B/G, I, D/K, M, N, L.

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Multi-System VCR vs Worldwide VCR

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The Worldwide VCR is similar to the Multi-System VCR in that it will play back tapes recorded in any TV Broadcasting System. However, there are a few key differences:

Multi-System VCR

NTSC		SECAM
	PAL
NTSC	PAL	SECAM

With a Multi-System VCR:

The TV must correspond to the system of the tape being played, otherwise, a Multi-System TV is also required;

Tape duplication with system conversion (eg NTSC to PAL) is not possible.

SV-5000W Worldwide VCR

	ANY TV
NTSC	PAL	SECAM

With the Worldwide VCR:

Tapes can be played on any TV monitor;

Recordings can be made in any TV Broadcasting System, even if the tape is of a different system;

Tape duplication with system conversion is possible.

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