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What is norm translating?
Norm translating is converting between different national formats. (NTSC, SECAM and PAL).
For instance, the NTSC format is used in America, the Dutch antilles, Aruba and Suriname; while PAL is used in the Netherlands. Because of the different formats, videos and tapes are not playable everywhere. The used format of the hardware should correspond. A (video)tape from America (filmed in NTSC) will have to be converted to the Dutch PAL format before you can play it with Dutch hardware.
Pricing
Norm translation is an option when digitizing video tapes. For digitizing tapes in the NTSC / SECAM format we have the following surcharge:
| Norm translation | Price |
|---|---|
| Surcharge NTSC/SECAM tapes (per tape) | € 8,50 |
Convertability overview
| Type | PAL | NTSC | SECAM |
|---|---|---|---|
| VHS / VHS-C | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| video8 | ✔ | ✔ | |
| hi8 | ✔ | ✔ | |
| minidv | ✔ | ✔ | |
| HDV | ✔ | ✔ | |
| DV | ✔ | ✔ | |
| DVCAM | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Lasterdisc | ✔ | ✔ | |
| U-matic | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Betamax | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
Formats per country
| PAL | NTSC | SECAM |
|---|---|---|
| Abu Duabi | Antigua | Albania |
| Afghanistan | Antilles | Bulgaria |
| Algeria | Aruba | Djibouti |
| Argentina | Bahamas | Egypt |
| Australia | Barbados | France |
| Azores | Bermuda | French Guiana |
| Bahrein | Bolivia | Gabon |
| Bangladesh | Bonaire | Greece |
| Belgium | Brazil | Guadeloupe |
| Bosnia Herzegovina | Burma | Hungary |
| Canary Islands | Canada | Iran |
| China | Chile | Iraq |
| Cyprus | Colombia | Ivory Coast |
| Denmark | Costa Rica | Cameroon |
| Dubai | Cuba | Congo |
| Germany | Curaçao | Lebanon |
| Finland | Dominican Republic | Libya |
| Ghana | El Salvador | Madagascar |
| Gibraltar | Equador | Martinique |
| Greenland | Philippines | Mauritius |
| Great Britain | Guam | Mongolia |
| Hong Kong | Guatemala | Morocco |
| Iceland | Haiti | Polynesia |
| India | Honduras | Romania |
| Indonesia | Jamaica | Réunion |
| Ireland | Japan | Russia |
| Israel | Cayman Islands | Saudi Arabia |
| Italy | South Korea | Senegal |
| Jordan | Mexico | Slovakia |
| Channel Islands | Nicaragua | Zaire |
| Kenya | Panama | |
| North Korea | Peru | |
| Kuwait | Puerto Rico | |
| Croatia | Saipan | |
| Laos | Suriname | |
| Liberia | Taiwan | |
| Luxembourg | Trinidad | |
| Madeira | USA | |
| Malaysia | Venezuela | |
| Malta | ||
| Monaco | ||
| Mozambique | ||
| Namibia | ||
| Netherlands | ||
| New Zealand | ||
| Nigeria | ||
| Norway | ||
| Uganda | ||
| Oman | ||
| Austria | ||
| Pakistan | ||
| Paraguay | ||
| Poland | ||
| Portugal | ||
| Qatar | ||
| Saban | ||
| Sarawak | ||
| Sierre Leone | ||
| Singapore | ||
| Slovenia | ||
| Spain | ||
| Sri Lanka | ||
| Sudan | ||
| Swaziland | ||
| Tanzania | ||
| Thailand | ||
| Tibet | ||
| Czechia | ||
| Turkey | ||
| United Arab Emirates | ||
| Uruguay | ||
| Yemen | ||
| Zambia | ||
| Zanzibar | ||
| Zimbabwe | ||
| South Africa | ||
| Sweden | ||
| Switzerland |
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