Electircal Equip
Mar 20th 2003, 11:41 am
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Electircal Equip
Help,
What can and can't you use in New Zealand. I'm looking at bringing all leky equip eccept tv/video cause there nacked. Also can i use my current BT phone????
Cheers.
What can and can't you use in New Zealand. I'm looking at bringing all leky equip eccept tv/video cause there nacked. Also can i use my current BT phone????
Cheers.
Mar 20th 2003, 11:46 pm
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UK phones will work fine in NZ, they even use the same connection at the wall socket to connect to the phone line. In OZ they use different sockets and so you have to get convertors to get the phones to work.
Forget TV and Videos as they use VHF and UHF in NZ and sound reciever is different. I brought an expensive Video from the UK and it didn't recieve on the VHF range and so I couldn't pick up one of the main channels. It did recieve on the UHF range ok but you couldn't hear it cos the sound was screwed.
I binned if eventually and bought a new one.
DVD players could cause a problem if they are UK region only as we are different region down here.
All other electrical goods should be fine once you change the power plug to the NZ standard
Forget TV and Videos as they use VHF and UHF in NZ and sound reciever is different. I brought an expensive Video from the UK and it didn't recieve on the VHF range and so I couldn't pick up one of the main channels. It did recieve on the UHF range ok but you couldn't hear it cos the sound was screwed.
I binned if eventually and bought a new one.
DVD players could cause a problem if they are UK region only as we are different region down here.
All other electrical goods should be fine once you change the power plug to the NZ standard
Mar 21st 2003, 7:06 am
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Originally posted by Kiwipaul
UK phones will work fine in NZ, they even use the same connection at the wall socket to connect to the phone line. In OZ they use different sockets and so you have to get convertors to get the phones to work.
Forget TV and Videos as they use VHF and UHF in NZ and sound reciever is different. I brought an expensive Video from the UK and it didn't recieve on the VHF range and so I couldn't pick up one of the main channels. It did recieve on the UHF range ok but you couldn't hear it cos the sound was screwed.
I binned if eventually and bought a new one.
DVD players could cause a problem if they are UK region only as we are different region down here.
All other electrical goods should be fine once you change the power plug to the NZ standard
UK phones will work fine in NZ, they even use the same connection at the wall socket to connect to the phone line. In OZ they use different sockets and so you have to get convertors to get the phones to work.
Forget TV and Videos as they use VHF and UHF in NZ and sound reciever is different. I brought an expensive Video from the UK and it didn't recieve on the VHF range and so I couldn't pick up one of the main channels. It did recieve on the UHF range ok but you couldn't hear it cos the sound was screwed.
I binned if eventually and bought a new one.
DVD players could cause a problem if they are UK region only as we are different region down here.
All other electrical goods should be fine once you change the power plug to the NZ standard
Mar 21st 2003, 7:28 am
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Originally posted by Kiwipaul
UK phones will work fine in NZ, they even use the same connection at the wall socket to connect to the phone line. In OZ they use different sockets and so you have to get convertors to get the phones to work.
UK phones will work fine in NZ, they even use the same connection at the wall socket to connect to the phone line. In OZ they use different sockets and so you have to get convertors to get the phones to work.
Do you have any idea where a convertor from UK BT socket to a Australian phone socket (RJ45 or RJ10) can be purchased from??
Many thahks
Mar 24th 2003, 3:37 am
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You cannot get the plug type converters here. I had a phone cable that plugged into the body of the phone, so I just unplugged it, binned it and bought a new cable that fitted the wall sockets here and plugged into the phone as the adapters on the phone itself are universally standard.
Videos I recorded in the UK played fine on my NZ Video and TV. I believe if you buy a NZ video connect it up to a UK TV, that should resolve the sound problem if you watch the TV through the NZ video recorder. Just what I've heard so no guarentee.
Videos I recorded in the UK played fine on my NZ Video and TV. I believe if you buy a NZ video connect it up to a UK TV, that should resolve the sound problem if you watch the TV through the NZ video recorder. Just what I've heard so no guarentee.
Mar 24th 2003, 6:56 am
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Originally posted by Kiwipaul
Videos I recorded in the UK played fine on my NZ Video and TV. I believe if you buy a NZ video connect it up to a UK TV, that should resolve the sound problem if you watch the TV through the NZ video recorder. Just what I've heard so no guarentee.
Videos I recorded in the UK played fine on my NZ Video and TV. I believe if you buy a NZ video connect it up to a UK TV, that should resolve the sound problem if you watch the TV through the NZ video recorder. Just what I've heard so no guarentee.
Tony
