Nintendo DS TV Tuner

gurner · 6th August 2008, 12:07 AM

Anyone know if the DS TV tuner will work in Australia?

Im in Japan at the moment and have seen these around, but don't really want to buy something that isn't going to work. I figure that my chances are pretty slim.

dc0079 · 6th August 2008, 8:53 PM

No it's not gonna work, completely different digital broadcast system afaik

sasuke_kun12 · 15th August 2008, 12:13 PM

We do PAL, japan does NTSC/J

arasta · 15th August 2008, 10:32 PM

actually we are talking digital format here, we do DVB-T (US uses ATSC). not sure the digital format in japan normally but from memory that ds tuner is using DVB-H (handheld) format which is a bit of a rarity broadcast format. your chances of using it here are indeed buckleys id say. would love to be proven wrong but as i understand it it is not a compatible format.

Daviesh · 22nd August 2008, 3:04 AM

It uses a system called 1seg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1seg

This is ISDB-T, not DVB-T like we have here. It's mainly used in Japan, whereas DVB-T is more widespread.

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dc0079 Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Sydney Posts: 113	No it's not gonna work, completely different digital broadcast system afaik

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sasuke_kun12 Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 44	We do PAL, japan does NTSC/J

22nd August 2008, 3:04 AM	#5
Daviesh Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Darwin Posts: 91	It uses a system called 1seg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1seg This is ISDB-T, not DVB-T like we have here. It's mainly used in Japan, whereas DVB-T is more widespread.