In Car TV System, UK/ROI/France

mikeecho

Hi, friend of a friend has a BMW imported from Japan.

The Car has a TV tuner, which doesn't work in ireland, they asked me, if they get the system flashed to UK/Ireland specs, will it also work if travelling on the continent, ie france etc. i dont know, said i would try and find out.

So basically my question is.. Is the French / German / Dutch , terrestrial TV the same standard as UK /ROI ? is it all the same DVB T / T2

The Cush

Japan uses a completely different TV standard to Europe.

I would've thought this would be hardware based and not software upgradeable?

As regards Europe, all countries basically use the same broadcast standard DVB-T/T2. They will be differences with EPG etc. but basically the picture should still be viewable and audio ok.

Regarding Holland/Belgium, do they still have terrestrial TV?

TAFKAlawhec

The German DTT network is DVB-T2 with HEVC (h.265) video encoding - if you have a receiver with that benchmark then it'll do everything else in Europe too. AFAIK all European DTT EPGs are based on the DVB-EPG standard so it should be okay too.

Terrestrial TV still exists in the Netherlands, but is mostly a pay-TV platform (Digitenne) with only some of the NPO & local PSB stations available free-to-air. Similar in the Flanders part of Belgium 'xcept there's no FTA broadcasting though a RTBF FTA multiplex still exists in Wallonia for the French-speaking community.

PixelCrafter

Japan uses ISDB for digital TV. It's a Japanese system used in a few countries, but totally incompatible with DVB standards.

It's very unlikely that it's flashable or modifiable by software.

It's used in 20 countries, but none are anywhere near here.

https://www.dibeg.org/world/

winston_1

Indeed. And the ISDB-T used in Japan is different from the other 19 countries. Brazil looked at the Japanese system and improved it then that was adopted in the 19.