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Buying a TV from Amazon UK and Digital TV

Duffman · 2009-05-09 21:50:25

Lots of TVs on Amazon claim to have Freeview digital. As DTV formats are not the same here, will this be totally useless? Will a UK TV pick up Irish terrestrial digital? Thanks.

09-05-2009 9:50pm

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Duffman

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Lots of TVs on Amazon claim to have Freeview digital. As DTV formats are not the same here, will this be totally useless?

Will a UK TV pick up Irish terrestrial digital?

Thanks.

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#2 09-05-2009 9:55pm

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UK DTT is uses MPEG-2. Ireland has gone for the more up to date MPEG-4 standard. There are some other differences too so UK digital TVs will not pick up Irish DTT with their built-in decoders. That doesn't stop you from getting a separate set-top box to pick up Irish DTT.

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