You'll probably find that the TV is both PAL and NTSC just not advertised that it is. I think now days every TV is produced in the far east and most are multi format. This is so they can sell to PAL territories and claim NTSC compatibility for people who use region1 DVD's etc. It was the manufactures way of telling Hollywood to get stuffed over region coding. That's why they grouped Japan (NTSC) with Europe (PAL) as region2 to get around it.
To save costs now days they will just build the same internal's and only re-badge the name/model for different area's but keep quite about it.
Over here in the UK even the small 14" portable tv's will display NTSC and most DVD players are multi format and will play all regions so it isn't really an issue here anymore.
As region 0 can be played on any DVD player your TV must be capable of displaying PAL images.
The converters you are talking about are now in built on the PCB inside the TV and why they just stick them in all TV's to save having to do a different build for North America.
You'll find that it will have been Hollywood who made the manufactures hide the PAL display facts from the descriptions.
Darren
To save costs now days they will just build the same internal's and only re-badge the name/model for different area's but keep quite about it.
Over here in the UK even the small 14" portable tv's will display NTSC and most DVD players are multi format and will play all regions so it isn't really an issue here anymore.
As region 0 can be played on any DVD player your TV must be capable of displaying PAL images.
The converters you are talking about are now in built on the PCB inside the TV and why they just stick them in all TV's to save having to do a different build for North America.
You'll find that it will have been Hollywood who made the manufactures hide the PAL display facts from the descriptions.
Darren