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I am going to the USA next month and I have enough money to buy a Playstation 3 ( and tax etc...). I would like to know when i bring it back to the United Kingdom, will it work and I be able to play it? Even though the USA use NTSC and Britain use PAL?

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1. I think it should do, i dont see why not ......
2. no
3. The main thing is that the Voltage in the US is 110 and in the UK it's 220 - 240 so you'll need a converter at least. I was also told that that games are different on either side of the Atlantic but you'll have to check that one.
4. Im not sure why but I definately no thats its impossible to bring them back to the UK!
5. No it won't work, the games sold here are PAL and won't run on an NTSC PS3, also the picture qualty won't be great on a PAL TV which we have over here unless you've got a TV with NTSC compatibility so i owuldn't do it.
6. Yeah, you'll have a problem not just with the NTSC/PAL deal, but there's also the voltage difference between USA and UK. Just wait until the European launch.
7. I beleive the PS3 is region free, So It should workjust fine.
8. Yes what southern dandy said, you cant bring them back into the Uk, my friend before the 360 was out went to US and bought one but they wouldnt let it through customs, so he had to get a refund.
9. it wont work
10. definatly not it's not just the pal and ntsc battle its regions they're a different region to us and dvd's won't work over here on your machine sorry but youll just have to wait until the europe launch :(
11. IT WILL WORK!! PS3 is region free, that's why people in the U.S can play japanese games. but why don't u just wait 3 more weeks when it comes out in europe. it comes with the new JAMES BOND blu-ray dvd movie for free
12. no, it wont work for many reasons, wait for the 23rd of march , id advise a xbox360 No one has come close to unlocking the potential of either console, On paper the PS3 is way more powerful (7 Proccessors!!!), i guess it would be alot more stable too. PS3: CPU: Cell Processor PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz 1 VMX vector unit per core 512KB L2 cache 7 x SPE @3.2GHz 7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs 7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE * 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy Total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS GPU: RSX @550MHz 1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines Sound: Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell-based processing) Memory: 256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700MHz System Bandwidth: Main RAM -- 25.6GB/s VRAM -- 22.4GB/s RSX -- 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read) SB -- 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read) System Floating Point Performance: 2 TFLOPS Storage: Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1 I/O USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0) Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1 SD standard/mini x 1 CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1 Communication: Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2) Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR) Controller: Bluetooth (up to 7) USB 2.0 (wired) Wi-Fi (PSP) Network (over IP) AV Output Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p HDMI: HDMI out x 2 Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1 Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1 XBOX360: Custom IBM PowerPC-based CPU 3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each 2 hardware threads per core; 6 hardware threads total 1 VMX-128 vector unit per core; 3 total 128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread 1 MB L2 cache CPU Game Math Performance 9 billion dot product operations per second Custom ATI Graphics Processor 500 MHz 10 MB embedded DRAM 48-way parallel floating-point dynamically-scheduled shader pipelines Unified shader architecture Polygon Performance 500 million triangles per second Pixel Fill Rate 16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X MSAA Shader Performance 48 billion shader operations per second Memory 512 MB GDDR3 RAM 700 MHz DDR Unified memory architecture Memory Bandwidth 22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth 256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM 21.6 GB/s front-side bus Overall System Floating-Point Performance 1 TFLOP Storage Detachable and upgradeable 20 GB hard drive 12X dual-layer DVD-ROM Memory unit support starting at 64 MB I/O Support for up to 4 wireless game controllers 3 USB 2.0 ports 2 memory unit slots Optimized for Online Instant, out-of-the-box access to Xbox Live features, including Xbox Live Marketplace for downloadable content, Gamer Profile for digital identity and voice chat to talk to friends while playing games, watching movies or listening to music Built in Ethernet Port Wi-Fi Ready: 802.11 A, B and G Video Camera Ready Digital Media Support Support for DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, WMA CD, MP3 CD, JPEG Photo CD Stream media from portable music devices, digital cameras, Windows XP PCs Rip music to Xbox 360 hard drive Custom playlists in every game Windows Media Center Extender built in Interactive, full screen 3D visualizers HD Game Support All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing Standard definition and high definition video output supported Audio Multichannel surround sound output Supports 48 KHz 16-bit audio 320 independent decompression channels 32-bit audio processing Over 256 audio channels System Orientation Stands vertically or horizontally Customizable Face Plates Interchangeable to personalize the console
13. You'll regret getting an american PS3. Wait and get a european one. It'll save you a whole lot of messing about.
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15. i should think that you will be able to use it over here but i think that you will have to have your games come from america. if i was you i would just wait a few more weeks and get one over here if you want one that bad. personally i would have the xbox360 as it is the better consol