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Browse All TopicsWill an Australian PS3 console work in USA?
He has so far received differing advice from gamers, from JB-Hifi and DickSmith shops who told him that it will not work.
Anyone knows?
Thanks.
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by: MASQUERAIDPosted on 2009-09-20 at 23:28:39ID: 25380587
It will work but ideally you'll need HDMI.
If you are using HDMI to connect then the fact it is PAL in an NTSC country will make no difference to the display. If you're connecting to the TV's cable input the TV needs to be capable of displaying both NTSC (US) (480i) and PAL (Euro/Aus/Jap) (576i) otherwise you'll get anything from no display at all to a monochrome flashing display as the TV tries to make sense of the extra lines of data from the PAL output. You're more likely to get an issue if you tried to put a PAL game in a US PS3 so this way 'round is easier to get to work.
An HDMI cable should allow 480, 720 & 1080 resolutions but if the TV/Monitor has HDMI you'll want to play 720 minmum & let the PS3 upscale anything less.
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om line is you are more likely to find a TV outside the US that can cope with PAL than inside so assume any TV you connect to will be NTSC and have no idea how to cope with a PAL signal so if the screen won't display at least 720p via HDMI chances are it won't work.
Power supply - the PS3 has a built in 110-240v transformer so you won't need to get anything other that a simple US/Aus socket adaptor - US AC is at 60Hz which makes no difference
Region-locked games/Blu-Ray - take your region 4 games - there are very few games on PS3 that are truly region specific region 4 or 2 DVDs will play but US Region 1's probably won't but don't worry about Blu-Ray disks. For Blu-Ray Aus is Region B and US Region A but most disks are coded for either All Regions or ABC so you should be able to put a US Region A disk in an play as long as it is also coded for region B (more detail here: http://www.blurayregioncod
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As a tip - set it to 720p before you leave Aus - if you forget then you can always reset it by holding in the power button while connected to HDMI and it will default to the native resolution of the screen it is attached to (or you could post another Q ;))