Does a camcorder or Digital camera both in US work in UK or Ireland?

Question

Does a camcorder or Digital camera both in US work in UK or Ireland?

Answer 1

Digital camera no problem, the video will probably record in NTSC format rather than PAL, so replay direct to a TV won't work, but you can still copy it onto a computer. The chargers will be wrong input voltage, but you can always buy a charger in the UK for that model.

Answer 2

You can usually change between PAL and NTSC if that's what you're asking?

Answer 3

Voltage will be different for a start.

Answer 4

yeah they should.

Answer 5

Will they work?. Sure. Both will take pictures or capture video. The power may be different, but most power bricks are dual voltage - and if not, an inexpensive transformer will resolve that very easily...

If you want to connect an NTSC camcorder to a PAL TV, you will have viewing/playback problems. The frame rates are different... That's why the different markets (US, Asia, Europe) have different models - they are either PAL or NTSC based depending on where they are sold.