> > The VHS tape is still a problem. Our player doesn't seem to like it, > > no picture appears but we can hear the audio moving along at something > > like twice normal speed. Can anyone tell me what's up with that and if > > there's some way to fix it ? > > Your tape is likely in the PAL format, the European standard for TV > broadcasting. It has a different number of lines scanned per second > than the NTSC format used in the US. I think your only option here > is to find someone with a PAL VCR and get them to dub a copy onto an > NTSC VCR. IIRC Italy uses *two* formats, both flavours of PAL. I don't know about interoperability between the two formats.
