As a former British colony and territory, technical standards in Hong Kong of today has been largely influenced by that of the United Kingdom, with some exceptions due to local and practical considerations.
Before the legislation of the Electrical Products Regulation (a few years prior to the handover in 1997), British standard extension cables, plugs and adaptors were seldom found in the market.
After the handover, the Hong Kong Government started gradually replacing the BS 6312 sockets with American RJ ones.
United Kingdom layout keyboards are rare in computer malls in Sham Shui Po and Mong Kok.
The default regional setting of Microsoft Windows sold in Hong Kong is "English (United States)".
[citation needed] Setting the browser to the encoding of "Western European" to view these Big5 Hong Kong webpages may cause some characters (for example, ',", £, € etc.)
Just as other Asian countries, VCDs are common for rental and sale in Hong Kong but these discs are not popular in the UK.
Similar with the US, Japan and Australia, S-Video is commonly used in colonial and post-handover Hong Kong equipment.
These ports are commonly found there on consumer TVs, DVD players, VCRs and game consoles sold there.