Taking a UK TV to France - will it work

cornerstone13

Not sure if this is the right place to post.

We are shortly off to France and we want to be able to watch French TV while we are there, but no TV is provided in the holiday home. We are considering purchasing a small flat screen TV to take with us but no one in Comet or Currys is able to tell us whether a TV purchased in the UK would work in France.

We are not expecting to be able to watch UK programmes; we are quite happy with French programmes, but does anyone have any experience to know whether a modern UK TV will work in France.

Thanks for any help

fwor

I ~think~ that an analogue TV won't work unless it supports SECAM as well as PAL (a UK domestic one probably won't).

I'm also fairly sure that a Freeview digital receiver will pick up the French equivalent Ok, because for a few days recently I could receive a few French digital channels on mine. I'm quite a few miles from the South coast, but my aerial points south, which probably explains why.

bonzer

I'll second that, analogue won't work unless your TV specifically supports the French SECAM standard.

Digital - good chance it will work as the DVB-T standard is relatively consistently used across Europe and France is on the UHF band like the UK and is using the same compression method for standard channels.

anuvidy

Echo what the others say. I have properties and English customers in France, and UK TVs - certainly of the SCART generation - seem to work ok. SECAM for analogue, but shouldn't be an issue for digital.