DigiTV question

Hi, if I bring a digital LCD TV that’s NTSC, PAL & SECAM compatible, but that has a TV tuner that only supports NTSC (i.e. the TV can only handle PAL signals if they are fed from e.g. a DVD player or so …) into a PAL environment, is there a conversion tool I could use to make it PAL compatible for normal TV reception?

What if the normal TV programming is broadcast digitally anyway, could I then use the TV as it is now without any additional equipment?

Thanks a lot! :slight_smile: Xpet.

AFAIK you cannot just convert the TV via some tool, usually changing of the tuner is required (easily done if it’s a module, otherwise probably not an option).
However you could of course use the TV with some external equipment that has a PAL tuner built-in, e.g. a VCR, SAT Receiver, DVD/HDD Recorder etc. by using the AV inputs.

[quote]What if the normal TV programming is broadcast digitally anyway, could I then use the TV as it is now without any additional equipment?

Thanks a lot! :slight_smile: Xpet.[/quote]
It depends on what digital broadcast you are referring to: DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-C, HDTV etc. and which of those the TV can (directly) support.

DVB-T: terrestrial
DVB-S: satellite
DVB-C: cable

Thanks Rascal, informative as ever, I’ll try and find about the details of the digital broadcasting over there …

Thanks, Xpet.