1963 ad for wealthy people

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Originally Posted by Captain Video

In the 80's they were, because at the beginning of the VCR era there were no local made VCRs, they were all NTSC, all imported, so we had to rely on converters ( "transcoders" as they were called ) to use NTSC VCRs on our PAL-M TVs. I still have the one we used in the 80's at home. Think it still works.

OK, but that's the opposite direction of conversion from the original question (NTSC to PAL, not PAL to NTSC).