[linux-audio-user] region coding sucks, but Linux rocks !

[rob fell]

> >     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.