Will a USA TV recieve a signal in the UK

[z_chromozone]

Hello all,

I was wondering if you could help answer a question on behalf of my Father.

He lives in the USA at the moment, but will retire and move back to the UK this year. He has a Vizio 42” TV which found out from tech support would run on UK power, but they could not guarantee it would receive the signal from UK set top boxes ok.

Does anyone know if it will work, or should he not bother bringing it back?

Kind regards,

Z

[dudleybloke]

my freeview box and dvd player (both phillips) both have options to output to either PAL or NTSC.
i'v not tried it out on an NTSC telly but i'm assuming it would work.

[SplatSpeed]

hd works as it is universal!

[cjs]

It will work with an external source, Sky, Freeview, DVD etc. All depends what connections it has, US TVs don't always have Scarts.

The TV itself is unlikely to be able to receive UK terrestrial TV as it will probably have the wrong tuner.

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z_chromozone said:

He lives in the USA at the moment, but will retire and move back to the UK this year. He has a Vizio 42”

I must admit I get confused by all this stuff, but US TV's tend to be NTSC only. They also tend not to use SCART, but it will almost certainly have HDMI.

However I still think there could be a PAL/NTSC issue unless the box feeding it here has NTSC output. I know you can buy PAL to NTSC HDMI converters so that makes me think it must be an issue, and they're not cheap.

[z_chromozone]

Hi,

Not as simple as I though.

I will pass on you comments to my Dad and he can speak to Vizio tech support about it again.

Thanks,

Z

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z_chromozone said:

I will pass on you comments to my Dad and he can speak to Vizio tech support about it again.

If he gives you the model number then you can probably look up the spec on online. I did look at a random Vizio unit and that did appear to be NTSC only.

[z_chromozone]

http://vizio.com/documents/downloads/hdtv/GV47LFHD...

Z

Edited by z_chromozone on Friday 4th February 16:08

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z_chromozone said:

http://vizio.com/documents/downloads/hdtv/GV47LFHD...

pdf search brought up no hits for pal.

[z_chromozone]

Deva Link said:

pdf search brought up no hits for pal.

He will be using Sky services, so I checked out their boxes and the HD+ box seemed to have the right output.

Our normal TV signal is too weak to do very much with, so the dish is a must.

Thanks,

Z

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z_chromozone said:

He will be using Sky services, so I checked out their boxes and the HD+ box seemed to have the right output.

Our normal TV signal is too weak to do very much with, so the dish is a must.

Thanks,

Z

The screen refresh rate won't match - SkyHD is 50Hz, the US TV only supports 60Hz.

[Ynox]

It'll work fine over HDMI. And yes, scart is a european only format, yank tvs tend to only have HDMI/component/composite/S-Video.

In work I use the same set top boxes in the US as I do in the UK, connected via HDMI.

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Ynox said:

It'll work fine over HDMI. And yes, scart is a european only format, yank tvs tend to only have HDMI/component/composite/S-Video.

In work I use the same set top boxes in the US as I do in the UK, connected via HDMI.

I don't think you can have such certainty. Read this: http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/sky-sky-tv/40792-sk...

[Ynox]

Learn something new each day - thanks for posting that.

<goes off to read about 50/60Hz HDMI standards....fun afternoon>