ChezTinns Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Hello everyoneWhen we bought our place in France back in March, we were lucky enough to buy it furnished. However, the previous owners must have been telly-mad. There are three tvs, two DVD recorders and 2 video recorders - all rather over-kill for a holiday home! Would the DVD recorder work back in the UK? The reason I ask is that there was a CD player left, which was from the UK and plugged in using an adapter, but for some reason it didn't work very well in France, but fine back in the UK - just wondering whether the same would apply to the DVD recorder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 Our UK DVD player worked here and the Philips DVD recorder that we have bought to replace it has instructions in French and English among others.Bit extravegant to leave two DVD recorders - are you sure they are not just players, which are cheap as chips? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezTinns Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 Nope, DEFINITELY DVD recorders!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 That was lucky! If you still have the manuals as well, it should show whether they are 'international' standard. I don't know the ins and outs, I just have a hazy recollection that there are a number of standards but the 'international' one does what it says on the tin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezTinns Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 Thanks,We'll bring it home and give it a try then - keep you posted! JT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Trollope Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 To actually answer your question;Yes, the recorder will certainly work (provided you change the mains plug!), but the tuner may not, but most likely will.I'm sure you don't want the in-depth technical reasoning behind that statement, do you?Or summat like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eslier Posted October 24, 2006 Share Posted October 24, 2006 All commercial DVDs are either PAL or NTSC, I don't think there is such a thing as a SECAM dvd. I wouldn't mind betting that French dvd recorders play back in PAL anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezTinns Posted October 25, 2006 Author Share Posted October 25, 2006 Sorry Eslier, you just got waaaaayyy too technical for me then!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyn_Paul Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 [quote user="ChezTinns"]Sorry Eslier, you just got waaaaayyy too technical for me then!![/quote]Don’t let your eyesglaze over… it really isn’t hard…… There are 3 differentsystems of colour TV, NTSC in America (andother US-influenced territories)SECAM in France (andother french-influenced territories)And PAL – everywhere elseincluding the UK. As far as I’m aware thereis no such thing as a SECAM DVD, so a French machine will certainly play DVDsthrough a scart lead into a UK TV. As Nick said, thetuner is probably multi-standard, currently set to record French TV off-air. Whenyou get it back to the UK and try to get it to record, you’ll need to go into amenu called something like ‘set-up’ or ‘install’ where – in addition tochanging the language to one you can understand – you’ll probably be offered something like ‘country’. Choosethe UK,obviously. Now it will be set to tune into UK TV signals rather than Frenchones. There. Not toodifficult was it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezTinns Posted October 25, 2006 Author Share Posted October 25, 2006 Thankyou Glyn Paul That was a very gentle techie lesson, and I am not one bit stressed! It is definitely coming home with me next week JT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Trollope Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 [quote user="Eslier"]All commercial DVDs are either PAL or NTSC, I don't think there is such a thing as a SECAM dvd. I wouldn't mind betting that French dvd recorders play back in PAL anyway. [/quote]Don't wish to be too pedantic (ha!!) but NO DVD's (disks) are encoded with NTSC, PAL, SECAM or whatever - they are digital. Unless one is referring to the players (few of which have any encoding, as few have RF outputs). Only recorders (which record off-air) have decoders (almost, as everyone has confirmed, all are "international"), but none of the DVD recorders I have come across actually output an RF "playback" signal, so no encoding necessary....Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Thanks Nick for being pedantic, quite. Only difference to beware of with DVD players and recorders is in fact REGIONAL ENCODING which will not affect anybody in Europe as we are all in region 2. The only time this is important is if you buy discs on the net from the US, Oz etc when you need a multi-region player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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