different systems

French TV have a different reception system to british tvs.

if you've got some other sort of device which can receive french signals (a french vcr, for example), you can get colour signals from that through a scart cable ('peritel' in french)

Posted By: Dave in France on September 7th 2007 at 14:50:43

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Why can't my tv work properly with French reception ? (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 7, 14:39:59
- Move to France. (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Sep 7, 15:49:22
  - Who wants to tell him > (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 7, 16:15:39
    - Graham (n/m) (General Chat) - blindasabat, Sep 7, 16:26:18
- It won't work. Buy a cheap DVD recorder / digital receiver and watch it through that (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Sep 7, 15:39:37
- try adjusting the colour setting (n/m) (General Chat) - Fuel_rox, Sep 7, 14:57:27
  - or stroke a grapefruit (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Sep 7, 14:59:22
    - or fuck a grape (n/m) (General Chat) - Fuel_rox, Sep 7, 15:01:21
- You're watching a charlie chaplin film (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Sep 7, 14:52:02
  - Harris! (n/m) (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 7, 14:53:50
- different systems (General Chat) - Dave in France, Sep 7, 14:50:43
  - Hmm prob going to have to be. (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 7, 14:57:03
- It's the aerial. (General Chat) - Small, Sep 7, 14:47:10
  - Those were the last words (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 7, 14:48:25
    - the last words he ever said (General Chat) - Dave in France, Sep 7, 14:51:13
      - no the last word he ever said was (General Chat) - Fuel_rox, Sep 7, 14:54:14
- TV needs to be SECAM compatible (n/m) (General Chat) - Yellalee, Sep 7, 14:46:15
  - It is - hence the perfect picture quality. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 7, 14:49:56
    - You 100%. Playing NTSC DVDs through a PAL ps2 makes it black and white (n/m) (General Chat) - scruffy, Sep 7, 14:57:25
      - ^^ exactly what I was thinking. (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Sep 7, 15:08:50
- it's knackered (General Chat) - blindasabat, Sep 7, 14:45:51
- Black and white silent TV? Get Berlin and Otto round! (General Chat) - Old Git, Sep 7, 14:45:24
  - HAHA (n/m) (General Chat) - Brandonio, Sep 7, 14:48:19
- maybe the colour signal is on strike (General Chat) - Fuel_rox, Sep 7, 14:42:24
- Turn your house round a bit. (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Sep 7, 14:42:07
  - easily the best answer so far. (n/m) (General Chat) - Tricky Hawes, Sep 7, 14:46:51
- French TV sound frequency (General Chat) - Army Boy, Sep 7, 14:41:43
  - Already changed it - it's on L' which it should be... (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Sep 7, 14:43:07

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