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Hardware Forum - Help connecting sky hd to ntsc tv - Page 1
Elite
Right helping out a family member here.
He has brought back a tv from the states and wants to conect his sky hd box to it via hdmi and of course it does not support the 50hz or whatever so it doesnt work.
Now I don't have sky hd so is there anything else he can try before he needs to look at purchasing a scaler which by the looks for the prices on the net are £300+. Or does anyone know a chape scaler that will do the trick.
Thanks
Elite
What connections are on the back of his TV? Is it maybe the HDMI type of cable, has he tried another? It maybe the copy protection that is causing the trouble (I think there is a way round that, but not sure). My mate in the US can watch PAL stuff I send him so is there a way of changing the TV to PAL?
Elite
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Paull says...
What connections are on the back of his TV? Is it maybe the HDMI type of cable, has he tried another? It maybe the copy protection that is causing the trouble (I think there is a way round that, but not sure). My mate in the US can watch PAL stuff I send him so is there a way of changing the TV to PAL?I will see if another hdmi lead works, though fairly sure that is not it, the issue is that the TV odes not accept the HZ sent out by the PAL standard. European TV's mostly accept the 50 and 60Hz range, whereas the Americans only have their 60 standard not out 50 on most TV's they sell.
Elite
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rvshah says...
European TV's mostly accept the 50 and 60Hz range, whereas the Americans only have their 60 standard not out 50 on most TV's they sell.I thought in today's HD LCD/Plasma days that had pretty much gone away.??..
Ste
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Elite
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sj says...
I thought in today's HD LCD/Plasma days that had pretty much gone away.??..Not in Yankee TV's
Elite
European TVs have been multi-standard for years, but thanks to their insular nature Americans' TVs only support 60Hz.
Elite
Is there a hidden menu that you can change the standard to European?
Elite
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Chris Gould says...
European TVs have been multi-standard for years, but thanks to their insular nature Americans' TVs only support 60Hz.I know that - but I thought the NTSC/PAL thing was pretty much irrelevant now for LCD/Plasmas - surely it's just a screen and it's capable of displaying 50Hz - or the Sky box is capable of outputting 60hz?? 
Ste
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We will pay the price but we will not count the cost..
Elite
Can you tell us the make & model of both the TV & the Sky box.
Elite
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I know that - but I thought the NTSC/PAL thing was pretty much irrelevant now for LCD/Plasmas - surely it's just a screen and it's capable of displaying 50Hz - or the Sky box is capable of outputting 60hz??
Nope, most US screens don't support 50Hz. If Sky HD broadcasts in 1080/50i I'm not sure there's much that can be done as you'd have to re-encode the audio on the fly if you changed the frame rate.
