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US LCD TV's
This might be a stupid question, but will a US model Samsung TV work in this country?
I've found this 40" LCD 1080P TV (including 3 year parts & labour warranty) for an amazing price, for sale from a Spanish based website flogging US models in GBP, who ship to the UK. http://emioni.com/product_info.php?c...oducts_id=6581 |
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No; it won't work properly. Buying a transformer won't solve the main problem: frame rate incompatibility.
The US TV market is very insular: TVs don't support the 50Hz frame rate of European SD/HDTV broadcasts and DVD (despite being largely identical under the chassis as the European models which support both 50Hz and 60Hz rates). You'd be able to watch Blu-ray movies on it or hook up a PS3 or PC to it, but you couldn't watch broadcast TV or DVDs on it. It doesn't help that there is no SCART socket (a European standard). |
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This might be a stupid question, but will a US model Samsung TV work in this country?
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I'd also question the 3 year guarantee... who exactly will be providing the in home service I wonder?!? it almost certainly won't be from the manufacturer.
that's in addition to all the above reasons for why it's a bad idea.... plus why is a spanish company selling US model TVs? - they won't work in Spain (or Europe) all seems a bit fishy to me. |
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I agree, don't buy a USA TV - they live in their own little world, and USA TV's are generally crippled to work only in the USA.
Also, don't forget, no NICAM, no Teletext, and no Freeview. |
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