robkat Posted October 15, 2004 Share Posted October 15, 2004 We have just installed a French TV set in our holiday home in 17. Do any of you wise people know if an English VCR (& or DVD) player will work with the french set? We are thinking of buying a VCR from Asda for the princely sum of £39.97 to take down with us when we go in November & I want to record my fav progs (eg Corrie etc) to watch while I am there! Sorry if this has been a topic before but I have just plucked up the courage to join the forum, having been a keen reader for some time!Thanks Kathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David584 Posted October 15, 2004 Share Posted October 15, 2004 Good afternoon KathyI am making the assumption that your French TV is a new one. If so then your DVD and VCR should work just fine connected to the TV via Scart leads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robkat Posted October 15, 2004 Author Share Posted October 15, 2004 Thanks for your reply David - yes it is a new TV (a cheapie from E Leclerq)! Kathy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexis Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 I have seen DVD thingies for sale here for 39€ and 59€. Seems very cheap. Guaranteed too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted October 16, 2004 Share Posted October 16, 2004 Our hardware had always behaved fine with each other, the most irritating thing was that french tapes had no colour ( or were orange & black) and, par contre, our UK tapes won't work in french vcrs. All to do with PAL and SECAM and different vcr standards.So we bought a Samsung from Conforama and were assured it would read all types of tapes. And it does! You bung a tape in and the clever machine figures out whether its UK, US, French or Mongolian and plays the blessed thing.Cool, so now our kids can swap vids with their friends, we get to watch Lilo & Stitch etc in French and they get to watch Bob the Builder in English.Stew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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