On Sunday 19 March 2006 10:19, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 19 March 2006 16:16, Carlos E. R. wrote:
We were talking about HD TV, or digital TV, that doesn't have a global standard (DVD does, for the moment). The idea proposed was that it was to stop us (european) from buying tv sets and such from the us, which being a bigger market might be cheaper - even if our equipment is also made somewhere else.
So you mean the tech companies would voluntarily make their production process more complex and expensive by having to have multiple production lines for different markets, just so they can charge $20 extra from European customers?
Doesn't seem very likely
Besides which, I was under the impression that HDTV would be a true global standard
TVs seem to be pretty close to a global standard now. I've spent some time looking at this awhile back. Without much effort I was able to find FTA satellite receivers that outputted either PAL or NSTC. Nothing really stopping a person from bringing a TV set over from North America and getting a FTA receiver that will work just fine. Ignoring the need to deal with the TVs voltage issues. No you can't just put up an OTA antenna and be done with it or get something like a sky box. But if you're looking at satellite that runs on the various FTA boxes it should work. Also various European market TVs seem to take NSTC on their RCA connectors. People just have to pay attention to what they buy. Plus remember things like Scart versus North American cables. I also get the impression that equal quality stuff costs about the same in both market. Nick