US Mattel Aquarius on a european PAL TV?

[drhoemmal]

So an hour ago my (almost) new Aquarius Computer & Game System arrived from the USA here in austria.

For the powerplug, I'll need a voltage converters, thats clear, but what do I need to get this TV-Antenna-Thing into a PAL coaxial antenna plug on the tv.... and, is a converter (if existing) enough, or do I i need something more to get the ntsc signal in a european tv?

thanks for your help

 

 

[Intymike]

Many flat screen tv's are able to show the NTSC signals (if they still have the analog antenna connection).

Otherwise a A/V mod will do the thing.

 

Or getting a PAL Aquarius.

[CrazyBoss]

I could not get the signal from an USA NTSC INTELLIVISION, to work at any of the LCD tvs i had access to. I ended up make a composite mod for my Intellivision, maybe the Aquarius is a diffirent story. I remember i could get a color fuzzy picture, but no sound using the analog tv tuner, but the main problem is the TV tune on different frequencies in EU than in USA.

[carlsson]

Physically you need an adapter like this to plug it into your TV:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/132027230219

 

(Please check genders and connection type, but I think that is the right adapter - I've got a bag of identical ones)

 

However I've been using a PAL Aquarius that has very bad RF output even on old CRT monitors that normally produce the best results, so perhaps you should not have too high hopes. I don't know if A/V modding is easy or difficult on this one, but it might be an option.

[CatPix]

Only a few LCD TVs in Europea display RF NTSC, and given how pathetic LCD TV's here behave with RF, I doubt you'll have any chance to display anything on a LCD TV.

 

I got a Japanese Nintendo Pong to display a stunningly good picture on a cheap Radiola (Philips ) 36cm CRT TV, but that was really a crapshoot as I tuned for "Europe" it just happened that the TV apparently recognized NTSC and displayed it correctly - but sound would probably be off as the sound carrier for NTSC is not at the same frequency than any PAL/SECAM sound frequency.

Unless your TV offers, by extreme luck, to tune on PAL M or N standard, which both use the same sound frequency. But you probably won't get color. So it's color or sound, unless you have a very accomodating TV.