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Username: Celtic59

Post Number: 1
Registered: Jun-06
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Help! We live in the US and are packing up our stuff,should we take our TV sets as I am Scottish and am pretty sure I heard when last in UK that the TVs are different,something about lines and tubes,so I don't reckon it'll work.Anyone know anything about this???
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Username: Samijubal

Post Number: 2725
Registered: Jul-04
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UK is PAL, US is NTSC, also UK is 220 volts, US is 110. You could use a transformer to get the 110 volts and be able to use whatever equipment you have here with the TV, but as far as watching TV broadcasts there, it won't work.
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Username: Darkomega

Post Number: 2
Registered: Jun-06
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thats not in tirly coreect it depends on the tvi would say if u tv was made in the last seven years u should be able to the reason is pal which is what they use over is like 560 and our is 520 but all we see is 480 but back to the point the us hould be able because the decoder will recive them all
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