You are looking for an electronic product and finally you found it, you buy it and you are waiting for it because you are crazy to use it. Finally it arrives you open the package and try to assemble it, then you turn it on and "what?" It don't work, why? A lot of people thing that for example one Nintendo Wii, a TV, one DVD Recorder or other electronic devices that we use frequently in our houses all of them are compatible, but they are not. Why?
One of the things that you should know when you buy electronics if it is NSTC or PAL. But what is it? NTSC are electronic products that works with 60 Hetrz, we use this frequency on United States and America, usually 120 volts. PAL means electronic products that works in 50 Hertz, usually used in Europ. If bring one product from Europ to United States it is possible that it can not work because this. Some of them works because they have the option to swith the frequency from 50Hz (Pal) to 60Hz (NTSC) then you can use it, but exist another problem, usually the products that works in 50Hz have another king of plug to connect it to the electricity outlet, usually you have to buy an converter so you can change the plug from 240V style to 120V some people call it "traveler converter".
Here is another thing that you have to considerate and it is in what language are the features and menu of the product that you are going to buy. For example, imagine that you bought an DVD recorder, it came from China and it do not have the option to change the language, a lot of them have that option. It happens a lot with the Nintendo Wii that the people buy from China, some of them can be changed and some of them comes with the menu in english, but there is another thing that they call it "region", some items like the Nintendo Wii are "region free" but some are not, if it is not "region free" that means that you can not play games from United States and if you can do it, you can not do an update on his firmware because after the upgrade you are not going to be able to play games from United States anymore.
The same things apply to some items like Nintendo DS, mobile watch phones, cell phones and more. Sometimes we think because these items use chargers, they are not going to have this problem but the chargers works in one of those frequencies too. I remember that I bought a long time ago an Mp3 player from China, it came with the option to change the language, but guess what, the item came with the language setting in Chinese and I had to guess where was the setting for the language to change it to english because I did not understand nothing, it took me 1 hour to change it.
I recommend to read all the description of the item or contact the seller before you buy it and ask him anything about it. Make a search on the internet about the product that you are looking for and know about the features it have and things like I told you here then call them, learn anything about it, remember they want to sell and they asume that the client do not know anything about things like Pal, NTSC, region, menus or another important things, remember they can tell you anything just to convince you to buy the product.
If you got questions about it or another products, you can leave your questions here or add a comment to help the people about it.
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