US vs. UK vcr or dvd ?

[happylady]

Hi everyone!

I'm usually over on the Creative Community, but suddenly thought, "Hey, I bet someone on the UK Community Board can help me!"

My DS16 and his high school marching band will be in London, December 27 to January 3. His marching band was invited to perform in the New Year's Day parade. They are so excited!! My DH and I are hoping to attend next year, if they are invited back.

Our group, the band booster parents, have asked the local TV stations to pick up the BBC signal and broadcast the parade....but, they won't give us a yes or no answer. We don't care if it's broadcast at 3AM, we just want to see our kids (it won't matter if it's only for a split second). Unfortunately, the BBC signal we receive on our satellite receiver is not the signal that the parade will be shown on.

A good friend is British and his DB lives just north of London. He said he would be more than willing to record the parade, but his UK VCR is not compatible with my US VCR.

Does anyone have any ideas? If someone was able to record the event on a US compatible machine in VCR or DVD, I'll pay you!! We would be very, very, very thankful!!!

Any thoughts or ideas are needed!!!
Thanks,

 

[AlanUK]

You could always get the PAL tape that your friend sends over converted to NTSC. I believe there are places in both the UK and the US that can do this.

If you look at this site then you should get some more information

http://www.transfervideo.co.uk/

HTH

 

[happylady]

I knew I came to the right place!! I didn't even know there was this type of service available....then again, I never looked for it!!

Thanks

 

[mikki.young]

Also if someone can record to a DVD these are usually region zero and compatible anywhere.

 

[Tron[ADS]]

Also if someone can record to a DVD these are usually region zero and compatible anywhere.

Except that it will be PAL and likely to be incompatible with their TV.

Best bet probably is for someone to capture it on a TV card and send the avi file or whatever it captures to on a dvd, then the OP can find someone localy to convert it, which is pretty easy to do once in some kind of AVI/MPEG format.
I'd offer myself, only I dont have a TV card.

 

[mikki.young]

I'm just looking at Digiguide to see when this parade is on as I have a TV card in my PC and may be able to record it that way. I can't see it listed at all on 1st or 2nd January. Do you know when it actually is being transmitted? I'm coming over to the US mid January and could easily bring a DVD done that way with me and post it to you.