No, but TV standards are different in different countries, so any American VCR is likely to be useless in Europe.
I don't think that TV with analogue stereo was ever used in the UK. NICAM stereo is a digital stereo audio system on analogue TV.
I've got a portable CRT telly that I bought in France. I had to change the audio subcarrier filter to get it to work here in the UK, even though I had checked that it had a PAL option, when it used SECAM in France. I think that the PAL was set for Germany. So that's 3 different standards, in an area not much bigger than Texas. America uses NTSC which is different again.