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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
French TV and Mediaguard
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<blockquote data-quote="easysat" data-source="post: 25545" data-attributes="member: 175305"><p>Just to add to this, many modern TV's have multistandard tuners (PAL I for the UK and Eire, PAL B/G for the Continent and SECAM for France); it's not just French brands. Just check the specification in your TV's instruction manual. Even TV's with only a PAL I tuner will often decode a SECAM video signal that is fed into the SCART socket.</p><p></p><p>Incidentally, if you want to record a French analog satellite program and your transcoder won't work, then you will need a SECAM VHS video recorder. These are hard to come by in the UK, other than on the Tottenham Court Road, but you could buy one easily and cheaply in France. Most (all?) video recorders sold in France are multistandard (SECAM/PAL B/G) but the problem is that many don't come with a PAL I tuner for receiving UK TV. You'll have to check the video's manual to be sure.</p><p></p><p>A true story about French TV buyers: many French people won't buy Thompson TV's because they think it's a foreign brand because of its 'Anglo-saxon' name. Instead they buy Philips TVs because 'Phillippe' has a reassuringly French ring to it, even though virtually everyone outside of France must know its a Dutch company!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="easysat, post: 25545, member: 175305"] Just to add to this, many modern TV's have multistandard tuners (PAL I for the UK and Eire, PAL B/G for the Continent and SECAM for France); it's not just French brands. Just check the specification in your TV's instruction manual. Even TV's with only a PAL I tuner will often decode a SECAM video signal that is fed into the SCART socket. Incidentally, if you want to record a French analog satellite program and your transcoder won't work, then you will need a SECAM VHS video recorder. These are hard to come by in the UK, other than on the Tottenham Court Road, but you could buy one easily and cheaply in France. Most (all?) video recorders sold in France are multistandard (SECAM/PAL B/G) but the problem is that many don't come with a PAL I tuner for receiving UK TV. You'll have to check the video's manual to be sure. A true story about French TV buyers: many French people won't buy Thompson TV's because they think it's a foreign brand because of its 'Anglo-saxon' name. Instead they buy Philips TVs because 'Phillippe' has a reassuringly French ring to it, even though virtually everyone outside of France must know its a Dutch company! [/QUOTE]
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