Ekco 267/I restoration

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Originally Posted by jhalphen

Hi to all,

Hi Bandersen,
I replied to your enquiry about your Ekco TV on the ARF forum, but maybe you haven't had time to read the thread since you posted :

https://antiqueradios.com/forums/vie...p?f=3&t=416233

The Aurora SCRF "economical" series of standards converters do not change the frame rate between 25 FPS and 30FPS (or vice-versa), in your case, the British model converts 625/25 to 405/25. There is no model aside from the World Converter which will accept 525/30 and convert to 405/25.

In my opinion, you could use the UK model (with built-in RF System A modulator) feeding it from a cheap Euro DVD player with 625/25 baseband output & a Zone 2 (Europe) DVD disk.
There are also relatively cheap true PAL/SECAM/NTSC Standards Converters (consumer grade) which really change lineage and frame rate. See brands such as Atlona on E-Bay in video accessories section.
I've run a bunch of them in my personal systems and they do an astonishing job vs what used to be 50K-100K$ +Broadcast converters.

or

Attempt to run the Ekco with 405/30, just with a slight adjustment to the V-Hold frequency. However, i do not know if the UK SCRF model will sync with a 30 Hz frame rate.

Maybe Darryl H. (Aurora designer) will read this thread...

Best Regards
jhalphen
Paris/France

If you want a versitile 625i 50Hz video source to convert to 405@50Hz a better option than an imported DVD player would be a cheap HDMI to composite video converter....All the ones I've bought off Amazon here in the USA have a switch or button to select PAL or NTSC, and I have used mine in PAL mode to drive an Italian market CCIR/PAL 625i 50Hz Philips that is my only foreign market TV. The advantage of those HDMI converters is practically every signal source today is HDMI (and there's AV to HDMI converters for those that aren't) so rather than being chained to DVDs as your only media, with an HDMI converter you can play anything.