HDTV from US - capable of viewing cable channels overseas?

It will work with other DVD players and cable boxes.
The HDMI is an extra cost option on industrial plasma sets. John

Yes it should as long as you don't use the coaxial & then you by-bais the built in-tuner used & use a exteral box as a tuner.
Over the air channels you would have to hook a antenna up to the external cable/satellite box, but not 100% sure that will work.

for the power you got to make sure that you have the 'Frequency' right, too.

Thank you. I presume you mean by-pass the built-in tuner for the cable box signal to work. That's my thinking as well - using the cable box as the tuner. Will the tuner standard in the TV (ATSC in this case) conflict against the signal coming out of the cable box (DVB)? As I mentioned earlier, with a simple monitor, this was a non-issue as there was no built-in tuner. The TV has one! and I never plan on using it unfortunately...

PAL, NTSC & SECAM could endup being a problem. If your tv is 60mhz it should work since PAL is 50mhz, ? what SECAM is.

The internal tuner inside the tv Only kicks in, at lease on my tv, when something is hookup to the tv via coaxial, no tuner opptions on hdmi, s-line & composite. If in the tv setup menu you can not select Auto Program, Label Channels, Scan etc... in the channel/station menu area, the tuner is not used for that input.

Thanks again. I like this process of elimination to get to the answer. It makes total sense, however, when I say this to the vendors (Samsung and Sharp), they claim it will not work as the TV needs to be capable of interpreting the digital signal it receives! ATSC in the US versus DVB overseas for the digital world just like NTSC vs PAL in the analog world. As a comparative test (not entirely equivalent to a cable box connection though), I tried to connect a PC at 1080p resolution using a HDMI cable, but the TV did not pick up the signal. On trying it on a set with PC compatibility built-in, the connection from the PC worked...only adds to the complexity, I guess..any thoughts?

PC to TV via hdmi can give one a headache. It is the tv? Is it the videocard? Is it the drivers? Is it the PC settings? & soo on
VGA is the most reliable & it always works.

Any more updates on this topic? I am also looking for solution to the same issue. My plasma TV has built-in ATSC, NTSC tuner. My question is does the ATSC/DVB (NTSC/PAL) matters for HDMT output?

I have a similar but opposite issue. I have a US Sony LCD HDTV which does NOT provide a picture from a European Sony HD camcorder or a Toshiba multi-jurisdictional DVD player.

I too thought I could bypass the inbuilt tuner on the TV and use it like a monitor. No luck yet though I have only tried for 30 mins. Also hoping Sony can help when I ask the right person! Or someone on my separate thread on this forum!

Hi,

I am residing in US, I have always wanted to take a tv to overseas, but my main concern that holds me back is the frequency which is 50hz in Europe and 60Hz in the US. You can change the voltage from 110 to 220 volts or vice versa by a transformer, however, this does not change the frequency, which has an impact on the electric power applied to the devices, also provides the triggering for electronic clock devices. That is why if you hook up a digital electric alarm clock in the US and hook it up to the grid in Europe, even with a transformer, after a while, the time will stray( I believe it lags in that case).

So, if someone asks me why other devices such as, computers work overseas, is that they have internal converters(power adapters) that change alternate current(which is grid current) to direct current -DC. That is why they work all over the world. and Yet, those devices, such as laptops, pocket pcs, phones etc., are type of devices that are by nature needs to travel by user. that is why their adapters has a voltage range to sense and convert to specific power output. However, TVs are not working with direct current as far as I know. Also, they are not really intended to be carried from one geographic region to another.

Hope this helps.

I forgot to mention in the previous post that, If you hook up an electronic device like a TV that is bought in the US, that works with alternate current,( not with a direct current like phones, computers etc uses), to a grid with a voltage converter in Europe, the device may work for some time, but in short period of time it is likely to broke.

Bottom line, you will need an AC power converter, like 220V 50 Hertz, to 110V 60Hertz, and that also provides enough power output to power your TV. Lets say if your TV works with 500Watts, your power converters output must be greater than 500watts. I haven't searched for such a device for long time, but I remember few years ago, I couldn't find one, that's intended for consumers.

You can find regular TV's that are dual power. (e.g. Sony KDL46WL135) so that isn't to big a problem. Did anybody figure out the answer to the original qustion on the tuner?

Computer monitors are typicall multi-scan, so they can display the various frequencies involved between NTSC and PAL. But TVs typically don't do this, unless as some other posters mentioned, you buy an industrial monitor (like the Panasonic) which are multi-sync (multi-display) and will display anything you throw at them.