Hi everyone, I'm sure this has probably been asked a million times but can you use a t.v bought in the u.k in Oz without any problems.

we e-mailed the comany (Philips) and gave them model type, voltage etc and asked them if we could use it in Australia. They e-mailed us back the next day and told us we could.
GL,
Freya

Thank's Freya, I'll give that a go.

When we were out there we got told that even if the TV wouldn't pick up the signal in Aus you can buy a set top box and it should be ok.

Hi Mike and Tracy

We brought all our Tv's, from a 6ry old Toshiba to 2 new flat screens and the kids portables etc. The only one we had a problem with was the older big tosh but we just bought a didgi box and it's perfect.

See you soon

Sam

:sign69: I'm confused. I'm sure I read a post a few weeks back saying that TVs from the Uk can either pick up a picture OR give out sound, but not both?????????????? We're leaving ours behind because of that post......have we misinterpreted the comments?????

Hi Katie
It's all correct! Depending on your TV and whether it has international settings you will either find that it can receive TV properly here, or that you can choose between picture and sound but not get both at once.

If you find yours doesn't work properly, you can use one of the workarounds suggested, either a digi-box or running the signal through an Oz video to your tv.

And of course it'll still work for Playstation etc whatever the TV reception is like.

will any digi box work and how many channels do they give you?

Most of this is in the faq section, read it there in depth with all the small print but here’s the bottom line:

Maybe, maybe not…

There are lots of factors

1. Broadcast standard. Aus uses a different version of PAL (‘B/G’ rather than the UK ‘I’ standard) if you have a multistandard TV or, if in the specs it has BG in the list of letters after PAL you’ll be fine.
2. Broadcast band. UK TV’s are UHF, Aus is ‘mostly’ UHF now but some areas (particularly rural ones) still rely on VHF for some channels (I think my SBS is on VHF).
3. If you have a stereo tv that uses Nicam you’ll only get mono sound, Aus uses a different stereo encoding type.

But…. All this is only relevant to the RF signal (That’s stuff that comes in through the aerial wire). Any signal through composite, s-vid or scart type connections will work perfectly.

Where does this leave you? If the TV is a good one you may as well bring it – if it doesn’t work when you plug an aerial in, no worries set-top digiboxes are cheap and so are VHS videos – both will give you free to air channels that you can watch through your TV using the video rather than aerial connection.

Perry

Yes - (any aus digi-box that is) provided the TV has video inputs (all except the cheapest modern sets do)

Channels:

7,9 and 10
SBS 1&2
ABC 1&2

additional radio channels and some info channels.

High def versions also appearing for if you buy HD equipment.

Perry