Will Xbox One convert PAL to NTSC

BreezyRock504 · May 6, 2014

Hi All,

I have a complex question here, i hope that i can get some help...

i am relocating to Israel soon and plan to take my xbox one and my US TV.

the TV uses NTSC (and i will use a power converter for the voltage).

since i am taking my both TV and my xbox one i am sure that the games will work. but i am not sure regarding watching TV.

Now here is my problem:

Israel broadcasting system is PAL.

so the HDMI input will be getting PAL.

but the TV will be using NTSC.

So my question is, will the Xbox One know to convert PAL to NTSC?

will appreciate any help i can get on this.

:)

Major Keebler · May 6, 2014

xbox one with cable in but no cable box

And for our PAL friends overseas:
www.amazon.com/.../ref=sr_1_1

DaFakk · May 6, 2014

S...., Got NTSC game, but have PAL Xbox.

Hey!

I just got new game for christmas, but, oh no, it's NTSC only, but I have PAL console.

Is it somehow possible to convert it to PAL version?

yutuyutu · Nov 4, 2014

Hi, I have a similar problem that I want to convert my xbox one NTSC to PAL

Sinderan · Nov 4, 2014

Extension to this, would the OTA adapter work with a US xbox one or would the software not allow it?

EvilBoris GX · Nov 1, 2018

It should be ok, with Modern TV's it's not so much of an issue.

The Xbox can accept a 50hz PAL signal and will display it on a 60hz NSTC TV if you are using HDMI.

If your TV can handle a 50hz signal, then this will get rid of the stutter and the Xbox will automatically switch between 50hz and 60hz as needed if you enable it in the video settings.

yutuyutu

Hi, I have a similar problem that I want to convert my xbox one NTSC to PAL

EvilBoris GX

It should be ok, with Modern TV's it's not so much of an issue.

The Xbox can accept a 50hz PAL signal and will display it on a 60hz NSTC TV if you are using HDMI.

If your TV can handle a 50hz signal, then this will get rid of the stutter and the Xbox will automatically switch between 50hz and 60hz as needed if you enable it in the video settings.

Sinderan

Extension to this, would the OTA adapter work with a US xbox one or would the software not allow it?

Zacabeb

If you can set the input mode manually on the projector, set it to PAL-60 so it matches the output from the Xbox 360. Otherwise it might expect the signal to be NTSC with strange consequences.

I don't think the converter will help much - picture quality over composite video leaves a lot to be desired, but the Xbox 360 already outputs a fairly high quality composite signal. The one benefit I could see with the converter is the ability to output
NTSC, which works better than the sad monstrosity that is PAL-60. But unless the converter does a good job, that difference might be moot.

Dirty Loco

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[quote user="Pinbot Fembot"]

But it's not the TV that is the problem with PAL and NTSC, it's the Xbox. I have a PAL Xbox and it will NOT play most NTSC US games. Some are region free, but definitely not most. Believe me, I've tried. Check play-asia.com to see if your particular NTSC
game is PAL compatible.

[/quote]That is not strictly true.

A 360 is capable of playing PAL and NTSC games and DVDs providing they are region free.

The issue comes to whether the TV can handle the signals and any decent one of say the last 15 years will be able to.

PAL and NTSC (no-one seems to remember Secam) might be used to describe regions but they are a separate issue to region locking.

This is why they have to list NTSC/U and NTSC/J separately on Play-Asia and other sites.

[/quote]PAL and NTSC are redundant standard definition formats (PAL=625i @ 25FPS / NTSC=525i @ 30FPS). These formats are no longer the standards, but the names of them are still used for the companies to region lock their product
if they chose.

Will Xbox One convert PAL to NTSC