I have a prospect that has moved from Australia back to the US after a couple years for job stuff. He is shipping back his things and one piece is a Samsung 55" curved TV.

I know they have PAL and we have NTSC. My question is will a PAL TV work here using an HDMI input for comcast/roku etc. Does the PAL and NTSC difference only apply to the tuner and over the air? Or is he SOL with the HDMI inputs as well?

I understand there would need to be some sort of power converter as well. I would take ideas or skus on that... if it can be used.

TIA,
Tom

all the european model samsung TVs we have installed on our yachts that were headed to europe have worked fine with all our typical hdmi sources.  and the samsung models we installed used 110/220vac and 50/60hz power supplies so they worked without a converter.  we just had to replace the weird power cable with a standard US version.

i would imagine that the australian version will work the same way.

you may not need anything special besides a power cord to make this work.

All of our tvs will do PAL and NTSC. I don't really think it's a factor when you're using HDMI video anyway.

But I don't think the PSUs in most TVs are universal voltage though. I would imagine you would need to convertor to bring the US 110/120v up to 230/240v.

Won't the picture be upside down?



Sorry, I had to....:-)

I believe the tv will say what power rating it will handle. So it could, and most likely, be able to handle just a simple power cord swap.

KOT

Most TV's down in this part of the world have universal tuners these days and as an example, many of Sony's TV's have external power supplies that are easy enough to swap out.
The apps on-board will often be geo-locked though, causing issues as you can't necessarily change the 'smart' elements of the TV's.

Also, it's Aussie, not Aussy.
Although, as a Kiwi, I have called Australian's much worse (convicts, thong enthusiasts, cheaters etc).

Last time this issue came up, it was an Aussie guy who was bringing a rather large system to the US. His matching transformer weighed about fifty pounds.

And was I confusing Aussie voltage with Japanese voltage? Somehow I remember his conversion as being from our 120V to 100 volts. I could be wrong.

Australia is 220-240v.

Isn’t Australia that small island off the coast of New Zealand??

Yeah, it's the tiny penal colony over 'the ditch' from NZ.
Poor buggers have to spend most of their time losing at sport, complaining about their government(s) and that their thongs are too tight...

Aussies - pfffft.

Just a FYI: PAL and NTSC are ANALOG tv formats. In the digital world, the PAL counterpart is 576i, and 480i is the NTSC counterpart. No country, that I know of, is still transmitting analog. There is no 720, 1080 or 2160 analog counterpart.

That said, there are TVs that won't play 576i/p videos (U.S. models) or 480i/p (other than U.S. models). You need to look at the specs for the particular model. But, when it comes to 720 and 1080 frame rates, I don't know of any that do not display them all. Still, need to check the specs and be safe, not sorry.

to add to Mr video

PAL NTSC are old analogue broadcasting standards. The digital equivalent would be DVB-T and ATSC (there is also ISDB-t in other parts of the world and updated standards like DVB-t2 and ATSC 3.0...)

when PAL/NTSC were created they were dwefined to match the clock speed of the electric current wehich is 50 HZ in some places and 60Hz in onthers. that is why we tend to talk about 1080p60 or 1080p50 (or what ever other resolution)

In my experience most (if not all) modern A/v equipment for the 50 Hz market will also work with a 60 Hz signal but it is not as easy the other way around.

so like Mr.video said, look at the specs, but the important thing is to check if it supports 60Hz (not the resolutions, once you go HD/4k those are the same.)