Is U.S. iPad HDMI "international" format for output?

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This may be (ok is) a dumb question; but does HDMI output suffer from the old international standard problems as TV did with regional encoding and incompatible international video formats?

Will a U.S. iPad be able to send output to a British, French, etc. television via HDMI and work?

Just had a sudden “fear” when thinking about traveling w/ my iPad – Thought I could let a group use it as a device to draw on, while plugged into a TV, and show some cool presentations, live-mark-up, etc.
THEN I thought, "Wait, what if the iPad output suffers from the “Great ‘NTSC/SECAM/PAL Divide’?!?” … “And, heck, what about frequency refresh?!?”

I know many of our MPU leaders and listeners travel a lot and no one has mentioned this on the podcast to my recollection.

Does that mean that particular concern has been banished by HDMI and/or the digital broadcasting ‘revolution’?

Thanks!

–Tim

P.S. Tried to answer this question via Google and got a lot of ads for adapters…

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It should be no issue.

Living in a PAL country, I do not have experienced any problem since I got my first digital LCD TV many, many years ago. NTSC works as does PAL.

Still, for instance Lifewire points out that there still are differences:

The thing is that I do not see issues. TVs work both with PAL and with NTSC and I would guess that SECAM does not make any difference.

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Super! Thank you!! [Did you know that our posts need to be at least 20 characters, or we can’t send them? — Jence my adding this :wink: … ].

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I’ve used my US ipad and iphone via HDMI in South Africa and Australia with no issues.

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Great article by Lifewire. Just to add one piece of info I could not find there: the design decision to go with 25 or 30 frames a second is based on the country’s electrical grid freqency of 50Hz or 60Hz. Frame timing is right there in the power supply.

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