leeta

I am moving to Australia from the UK and have a Widescreen TV and DVD player. Will UK systems work in Australia or not as I do not want to ship them over if they are unlikely to work.

Cheers

Graham Wood

Tv will not work directly as the uk flavor of PAL is different from that used in
Australia..... But ship the TV and just buy a local video player and use that as the
tuner, and connect to your TV via composite.

leeta wrote:

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Jaj

Unless your DVD is multi region it may not play discs you buy in Australia - as the
UK is within Region 2 and Australia is in region 4.

Of course, if you buy a DVD in Australia and it's not multi-region then it won't play
any discs you bring from the UK. Multi-region DVD seems to be the only way to go.

Jeremy

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tasmanet

Sell them and get new ones here in Oz

Then you will have new warrenties and will not have
to worry about who can repair them

Udo Nesshoever

Hi leeta,

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DVDs bought down under won't work on your UK-DVD player unless you disable(d) the
region code. Besides that DVD and TV will work together as they did in the UK.

Cheers,
Udo
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Mandy Bale

tv won't work but dvd will if it is multiregion. We are having our dvd player
altered to multiregion so we can take it with us. Otherwise you will be stuck with
just being able to play region 2 (i think) where as Australia is region 1 (may be
the other way round).

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leeta

How did you get your DVD altered ?- I don't really want to have to fork out another £500 equiv for a new Aussie one. The altering idea sounds good. Is is expensive?

Udo Nesshoever

Hi leeta,

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Depends. Some players have to be altered at the hardware, some just need a firmware
upgrade or some - hehehe, as mine, hehehe - have sth. like a hidden menue where you
can just switch the region code or just bypass
it. A good source to find out whether and/or how your player can be modified, visit
http://www.vcdhelp.com/

HTH

Cheers,
Udo
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leeta

Udo

Thanks for your comments/help
You seem to know what you are talking about.
I have a Sony DAV-S300 Home Entertainment DVD System (UK.
Can this system be converted to multiregional do you know.
I tried looking on the web-site you suggested but did not really understand the detail below my system.

Cheers
Lee

Mark :-\)

Check out http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk

regards MD

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Udo Nesshoever

Hi leeta,

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Well, it looks like a "normal" player can not be "freed". Looks like there is some
kind of hardware kit that would make that possible but I read somewhere that this is
about 85 Pound ( So apparently there's no such easy way like using the remote to
patch your player.

Cheers,
Udo
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Paul A Dubar

Wow, I didn't realise this newsgroup had become a DVD tech forum.

Leeta - if you go for cable TV in Australia, your TV will work fine. Simply put, it
will not understand the signal from the standard TV Ariel from the wall. Graham Wood
gave good advice on buying an OZ video player to receive the Ariel signal and send it
to your TV providing you don't connect the video to the TV using the ariel (RF)
connection and use the yellow, red and white sockets (for those who don't know what
composite means).

I've got a multi region DVD player I bought in the UK and it works fine over here for
Oz DVD's and my UK ones (plus any from any other part of the world). In fact, I
bought Shrek here in OZ, and it was Region 4 (OZ) and Region 2 (UK) !

If you're TV is widescreen (and cost a bit too) I'm sure it's got more than one set
of composite inputs + svideo, so you should be able to connect in all your devices.

I've just bought a TV here, and from my research, they are cheaper in the UK, believe
it or not ! Widescreens in OZ cost from $2000, whereas similar models (Phillips) cost
350 quid and up in the UK (see www.kelkoo.com for comparisons - wish there was
something similar in Australia).

My advice, before simply taking any advice to 'just sell something and buy new in OZ'
do some research on prices - I strongly recommend even getting retailers phone
numbers in OZ and calling them up to verify price/specifications of products. Believe
me, it worth the time and effort.

Paul.

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leeta

Thanks everyone for your assistance here - looks like I may be able to keep them then (with modif to the DVD player)