Market for used BPC NTSC TV sets in 3rd world?

[wa2ise]

Looking at a TV standards map of the world it looks like Mexico, and Central America and most of the western portion of South America uses NTSC, and Phillipeans and Burma too.

Next issue is powerline voltage

That would knock out everywhere except northwest South America, Central America and Mexico. Unless some sets have a switching power supply capable of accepting 240VAC.

AFAIK, all NTSC broadcasts use an FM sound carrier at 4.5MHz. And most BPC sets are cable ready, which means that they should be able to receive most TV stations that might be broadcast on oddball frequencies.

Maps from http://www.algert.com/Panasonic/Technical/Broadcast.htm