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post #1 of 7
4/10/03 at 3:03pm
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Can someone help me out? I'm moving to japan and I'd like to know a configuration that I can get a 8887 so that the tv tuner can work. will it also work in the us too? what other considerations would I have to decide on before purchasing the notebook? thank you.
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post #2 of 7
4/10/03 at 4:24pm
Japan and the US are both on NTSC. You'll be fine.

Heck, where do you think all our TV's and VCR's come from? (well, used to... now even Japan imports from China).

A lot of Asia is on NTSC.

-myrkat
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post #3 of 7
4/10/03 at 5:17pm
I believe that there is actually a special option for the t.v. tuner for japan. It says NTSC-j or something like that (the important thing is the j) and on the help page, it says thats the one you want for watching it in Japan (if I remember correctly)
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post #4 of 7
4/10/03 at 6:11pm
That whole "-j" thing may just mean the LANGUAGE it is localized in.

According to this site Japan and the USA both use NTSC-M (there is only one NTSC standard) - the only difference being the US has only 60Hz cycles and Japan has both 50/60 - which I am willing to bet the 60 is more prevalent.

-myrkat
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post #5 of 7
4/10/03 at 7:30pm
Sager states as having the following different types of TV tuners:

(1) NTSC: Taiwan, USA, Canada, Mexico
(2) PAL-I: England, S. Africa, and Hong Kong.
(3) PAL-BG+DK: Germany, Finland, Spain, Australia, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, E Europe, Northern part of China
(4) SECAM-D/K: Russia, NIS
(5) NTSC-J: Japan

Both the US and Japan are using NTSC system. So it is quite possible that the only difference between NTSC and NTSC-J is in the language.

Regards

Gintas
"Telsakoma"
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post #6 of 7
4/10/03 at 8:15pm
Japanese and USA use difference NTSC. I bought my first PlayStation 2 from Japan since there were no PS2 in USA at that time. I couldn't play the NTSC-M-J (Japanese) PS2 on NTSC-M (USA) television without the special adapter.
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post #7 of 7
4/10/03 at 8:52pm
I find that odd. I bought a Japanese PS2 in Thailand it and it wored perfectly fine on a USA TV, no adaptors required.
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