Sony KV 5000/5100 Differences?

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by etype2

I believe Japan is NTSC, but previous experience with Japanese market sets: won't accept a digital converter box signal.

Yes, Japan uses (used?) NTSC, but they do not have the low-VHF channels as we do. They have/had channels 1-3 in the frequency range of our FM radio band (88-108 MHz), while their FM band is 76-88 MHz.

If you do need to get an RF signal into a Japanese set, you could try modifying the output circuit of the ATSC tuner/converter so it works in that higher range. Another option is to use an RF modulator in the high-VHF range. If I remember right, the Japanese channel numbers in that range are one number off from ours (their channel 12 is our channel 13, or the other way).