Can television bought in Japan work in India? -

I recently bought a television from Japan, when I played it in India the picture keeps flickering. Even when I play movies using with the DVD player I bought from Japan same thing happens. I using an adapter to convert the current from 220v - 100v Can someone tell me what might be the problem?

I m surprised that it works at all, considering that Japan uses NTSC-M, and India uses PAL-B. Besides being different color encoding standards, the horizontal scan rates and vertical refresh rates are also different. Be that as it may, you say it s working but you re bothered by a flickering. Since Japan s vertical refresh rate is 60 fields per second, and India s electrical frequency is 50 cycles per second, you re probably seeing the difference frequency between your TV display and the lights in your room. While 60 times a second is pretty fast, and even the slower 50 times a second is still okay, you re seeing a difference frequency of 10 times a second, and THAT is noticeable. Like watching an old cowboy movie where the stagecoach spokes appear to be spinning backward. The spiinning spokes are one frequency, but the film frame rate are a different frequency, so a difference is created that looks out of sync. If you turn off ALL lights, you should see the flicker substantially reduced. Edit: THAT sounds more likely. The TV cannot lock up to the video because it s playing at a different rate than the TV If that s the case, it probably looks like jagged slanted lines, maybe with color flickering in and out. It has nothing to do with power or adapters, but the different TV standards used in the two countries. You have an NTSC TV, which doesn t work with local PAL broadcasters. Even with an NTSC DVD player, you re buying local PAL DVD s which are incompatible. If you can buy NTSC DVD s, you should be able to watch them, but then you ll see the flickering that I described previously, like the old-time movie flickering.