fordy said:
That depends. You either need to get a new power supply unit inside the TV, or at least tested that the capacitors can maintain enough charge for a sufficient bridge across 50HZ. Sometimes it can be as simple as replacing the cord (plug), transformer and capacitors. However, you still have to make sure the TV can handle SECAM. There are a lot of TVs that cam handle NTSC and PAL (mainly in PAL countries in order to take advantage of 60Hz games)., but I'm not too sure about SECAM. I think it uses a different system to PAL's Luminance/chrominance levels. You'd need to research the model a little. Check the instructions. As for the capacitor work, you'd need to take it in to a qualified TV repairman, or electronics tech. Any flat screen SHOULD theoretically be working on DC only, so tweaking the AC conversion portion according to country should allow it to work. Another thought that occured to me is that there's also the matter of the digital broadcast standards for TV, which can differ for DVB-C (Cable), DVB-S (Satellite) and DVB-T (Terrestrial) television signals. EDIT: America uses the ATSC method of encoding for HDTV, whereas France would most likely use DVB-T like the rest of Europe. Unless you get a set top box, you'll find that your TV wont be able to pick up channels. |
hmm don't care about broadcasting format in France as a matter of fact don't care either about it in the US.... i don't watch TV.... and the rest of my set up is US and works fine together.... so i just have to make sure all the 110V @ 60Hz only component can take the step down transformer....
i think i'll take the risk if it doesn't work... well i'll get my hands dirty and research a little more how to modify the circuitery internaly.... reminds me old times when geeking hard meant hard soldering component on your mother boards or video cards to improve performance....