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A sin off question - will a TV or related unit cope with the different transmission system in use in Canada?

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The Rogers man said " if the TV is powered up " , it will work.
The PVR box provided by the TV company receives the signal and the HDMI lead sends it to the TV --simple !
However ,I am not so sure aboutDVD's.

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UK DVDs are a different region to us ones so unlikely to play on a US DVD player. Either have 2 players or track down a multi region one. This is what we did.

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Normally not, so assume it won't work via aerial or cable connection
They use ATSM and we use DVB for over the air or cable
so you'll need a set top box to convert so its get to HDMI

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Frequency doesn't always affect motor performance. If the motor is DC then the power frequency has no effect on how fast the motor spins - it's only the voltage that matters. Obviously the motor in question here may be AC, just thought I'd mention it in case...

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we brought our tv etc with us when we moved 9 years ago and we got invertors(I think that is what they are called) from a shop called the source, our tv which we brought with us only clapped out a couple of years ago probably due to old age :)
we were told we couldn't bring any tools etc cos they wouldn't work so we sold a lot of stuff which we found out when we got here we could have brought them with us fuming, hubby has to build up his tools again.

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Not being picky.........BUT!!!..............................
if its a ~50hz motor.... its a frequency dependant motor............

and if its DC then we have some form of regulation in place :blink:

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I'm hoping you only plugged in stuff that says on it that it's ok for 110. Even some of the stuff I had that said it was ok for 110 stopped working after a while.

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Except that people sometimes incorrectly assume that if their device/equipment says 50Hz on it and it also has a motor in it, then it means the motor is a 50Hz motor....which is not always the case. I only pointed it out for those people...of which I was one a few months ago.

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A lot of devices without motors say 110-240V 50/60Hz. My mobile charger for one. all it means is that the power supply can handle that range of inputs.(Called a switching power supply). 50Hz motors generally run OK on same voltage 60Hz but about 8/10% faster - here we're 220v60Hz and all the items we brought from UK work fine. It's not the same going from 60Hz to 50Hz. Motors run slower but get hotter due to eddy currents.A few motors are 50/60Hz which just means they will work , albeit at slightly different speeds. Things like irons, kettles don't care what the frequency is as they are resistance heated where voltage is what matters.