Just a quick question - everyone says not to bother taking your TV unless you want to pay to have it modified, but no-one says how much this will cost. Prices on TVs nowadays surely a modification will still be cheaper than buying new?

From what i've been reading it seems that the general opinion is to take them!! If you can convert your tv it doesn't cost an arm and a leg, but some tv's wont convert (god knows which, probably mine!). BUT if your tv wont convert, buy an oz VCR and plug it in to your TV via a scart lead then it will receive the ozzy tv channels as normal.

hope this helps, if not do a quick search as there has been loads of info on this site about this very subject!

Dreamers
this comes up on this site a lot do a search and you will get a lot of useful info, however the best I have been given is take them and buy a cheap video recorder/player as you can take the feed from the wall socket into the video and then providing the TV has audio and video inputs then this will ensure it will work as the signal will already have been dealt with before it meets the TV....saves the problem with modification and videos are now very cheap but your TV needs to be a good one to have the two inputs
hope this helps
Gary and Terri

Thanks both, will definately take it then. (New last year) we have a video and the TV has the necessary sockets so shouldn't be a problem.

According to previous posts, the cost is roughtly $100 per television - which is a bit cheaper than buying a new TV !!!!!!

Also you will have the same problem with your UK video, of not being able to record Oz tv. You can use your UK video to play Oz or UK videos through an Oz tv so long as you don't connect them via the ariel socket.

We brought all of our TV's with us. The big widescreen Philips one worked fine on its own ( about 4 yrs old). The portables work with a video or DVD. We got the hacking codes for our DVD players and they are now all multi region which is brilliant.

The price to convert them is far more than buying a new video or DVD so dont bother! We have seen DVD players for $69 and we bought a 6 head video for $135. TVS are cheap as well, a pure flat 51cm was $285, a normal screen one can be as low as $199.

Try www.goodguys.com.au their prices are very low.

In retrospect I would have left the portables in the UK, we don't watch much TV now anyway and they are stacked in the garage.