F10-125: PAL I (uk) vs. PAL B/G (continent)

I'm considering buying a F10-125 in UK or Holland, since i spend time in both countries on a regular basis. I noticed that the F10-125 is sometimes indicated with PAL/SECAM spec and other times as just PAL. Since some vendors say the UK spec machine just can show TV at the PAL I standard (as used in UK) and not PAL B/G or Secam and others sa it can even do NTSC (which i'm sure it can't) i wonder if this is the correct machine for me.
In other words is the PAL machine suited for both UK and continental PAL? So can i buy it in Holland or UK and can i watch TV on it in my place in Holland as well as in London?
Hope somebody out there can shed some light on this...

Hi
As far as I know you can watch TV in both countries but you should at first set TV type in BIOS settings to PAL. In Windows media Center there is possible to change TV Signal for every region. I have noticed that there are 260 different regions from the entire world.
I didnt try to configure my WMC in another country but in my opinion there is no reason why this should not work in both countries that you have mentioned.

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