Originally posted by: SunnyD
Originally posted by: RyanPaulShaffer
Originally posted by: techwanabe
My fiancee is from England and her son has two Xbox360's and a boat load of games. I expect that the xbox won't work with American TV's due to PAL type display signal. No way to convert that?
Console aside, if I bought an Xbox in America, would British sold 360 games work on the American xbox?
I doubt you could even get the UK XBOX 360 to turn on. Europe has different electricity standards than the US.
As far as the game go, no. Games and movies are region-locked. Some consoles and games are region-free, but most are not.
Err, it's not that difficult to get an adapter for electrical systems.
Okay, since it's so easy, it would only take you a second to provide links for an item/items that:
1. Convert the US 60 Hz power to 50 Hz power so his PAL XBOX 360 can use US electricity.
2. Convert the 50 Hz video signal that the PAL XBOX 360 is outputting to the NTSC compatible 60 Hz.
You'd think since it is "not that difficult", that there would be tons of stores online that sell this stuff, they'd be all over Amazon, etc. That doesn't seem to be the case...at least for ones that actually work as advertised.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but it seems to be more difficult than "buy this $5 doodad from Wal Mart and plug it in", which is how easy you're trying to make it sound.
In fact, all of my (limited) Google searches on the matter have only talked about converting video files (software) from PAL to NTSC, or in reference to PAL games on NTSC systems or vice versa. I've seen nothing addressing converting the video signal the PAL XBOX 360 outputs or about getting the PAL XBOX 360 to work on US electricity.