Will a UK TV work in the US?

[dvs_dave]

I'm moving to the US and have a couple of Toshiba LCD TV's that I'd rather ship with me as it's cheaper than buying new once there.

I know the TV tuners probably won't work but I'm going to be running them off a TiVo via HDMI in the same way as I do now with my SkyHD. The TV's have multi-voltage power supplies so all good there, the question is, will UK sourced TV's work with US sourced HDMI input devices?

[cjs]

You should have no problems, except, as you say, the tuners might not work. US colour system is NTSC as opposed to PAL over here, however most modern TV's are multi-standard, might be worth checking yours first.

[Ynox]

HDMI is HDMI. Will work fine.

[Stu R]

Almost certainly. Inputs like HDMI are fine, and I've not seen a non-multistandard TV in years.

[RobDickinson]

Well can your TV cope with 110v/60hz as a power supply?

Almost all Uk tv's can cope with NTSC/60hz signals.

Digital signals (HDMI/DVI,component) are the same (ish).

I'd sell and buy one there.

[Deva Link]

Ynox said:

HDMI is HDMI. Will work fine.

I re-looked at this as the question came up the other way around (Brit coming home from the US).

It seems TVs sold in the UK are pretty well always multi-standard and TVs sold in the US are pretty well always NTSC only. The assertion is that a TV that isn't multi-standard won't work, even over HDMI. You can buy NTSC to PAL HDMI convertors, but they're not cheap.

So the OP should be OK as the TV is likely to be multi-standard. But HDMI isn't HDMI.

[RobDickinson]

Deva Link said:

But HDMI isn't HDMI.

Yes it is.

The TV may not support 720/1080p at 30/60 fps tho rather than 25/50.

[Deva Link]

RobDickinson said:

Deva Link said:

But HDMI isn't HDMI.

Yes it is.

The TV may not support 720/1080p at 30/60 fps tho rather than 25/50.

...so it won't work then? The physical connector might be the same so you can plug the cable in, but that's a bit irrelevant if the TV doesn't support the frame rate it's being sent.