Umm after all that - I was right with my spelling!!! Is the Wiki wrong? or is it a Canadian way of spelling it?

Why not, England uses coax cable, Canada uses coax cable, it is just the manner of fixing that are different is is not.

One could trying fixing a Canadian thingy to the end of a UK coax (or vice versa) and see it if works.

Now some smart so and so will tell me that the cables are different. Having taken these apart in both countries, they appear the same to me, but I appreciate they may not.

North American thingies can be purchased for a dollar or two at Home Depot etc.

I know you were right, but the Wiki is spelt wrong which was what I meant. Sorry, didn't mean to imply it was your spelling, it was obviously whoever set the Wiki page up originally.

I can't figure out how to correct the title of it, although I don't think it's a very searchable word anyway, not sure most people would think of that when wondering if their tv would work in Canada or not!

But as he says this is for cable. North American Cable is QAM, which requires a special tuner in the TV. UK TVs don't have this, so you can't just plug it in. It's doubtful that over-the-air NTSC will work either, and analog NTSC is being swtiched off at the end of this month so you'll need an ATSC tuner box. They aren't too expensive though, you can get them for $50 at Walmart. They're not HD though (and ATSC is HD), the HD boxes are around double the price.

lol funny - I have had cable/satellite so long that I did not even then about coax aerial cable

Still one is just boosting a signal and one is delivering the data down the cable so totally different kettle of fish. I guess if the cable box is decoding and then sending that stream to the endpoints then maybe you can just change the connector like said but surely even then you could only watch one channel at a time and how would you change channels.

For the price of a flat screen in Canada there is no point bringing a telly with u, you will have to get the transformer as previously said and new ones start from $350 up to $650 for a 50 inch!

Yeah, $650 for a 50" flat screen. It's sure to be a quality TV.

Costco, and i didnt know Samsung was crap!

It will be decent, just not cutting edge - hence the price.

All the TV makers make low quality budget TV's. People look at the size and think great - but things like contrast ratio etc will all be poor. Sure it will look ok if you are just watching cable, but put it against a TV that's $1500+ and you'll see a huge difference.

When in Future Shop I can see the difference, but watching Letterman? Does it really matter?

Not really. One of my hobbies is video games - I notice it.

I think my point was that the advice to ditch your TV and buy a cheap one here is not good. If you've got a fancy TV, bring it with you.

It will still be good for English DVD's and games. I really can't understand - if you have the space - why you wouldn't bring something that you will very likely still be able to use. We don't watch mainstream TV on our UK telly but the kids use it in the playroom all the time.