Does anyone know if 'other countries' can still use analog TV? I have a portable TV that I think would be good for...lets say....deployed military. Maybe even an in the field thing....it takes 4 AA batteries and has a rechargable battery pack too. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas...If someone in our Armed Services could benefit from it...it would be great.....

CJK,

Most countries around the world have a different broadcast standard than the USA. Our old one was called NTSC (new digital is ATSC). PAL, SECAM, MAC1, etc are standards from around the world.

So short answer... even before this digital transition, US television sets wouldn't work most places in the world. The transistion did nothing to affect that either way.

That being said... there are a few countries (mostly North/Central America) that adopted the really awful NTSC standard the US used. Not many; most were smart enough to choose the other standards which came later and hence were better than ours. So check with the country you are travelling to and you might get lucky.

FYI - Pretty darn sure Iraq is PAL unless the army has set up an armed forces channel there like they have in Germany.

Hope this helps,

No, the USA is basically the last of the countries to swap over. You'll find spots here and there, but it's all going digital.

2011 in Canada.
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca02336.html