As people have said, taking the TV and buying a digital set top box when you get here looks like the best option. If Samsung say you can't change the country then ignore points 1 and 2 (but check your manual to be sure).

Your LCD has an analogue tuner (the "normal" tv signals we grew up with now gradually being replaced with digital). The transmission standard used in most of the world is the German-developed (but not owned) PAL standard. (US and France use NTSC, possibly a few others).

Your problem is with different flavours of PAL. Thare are ways around this:

1. UK uses PAL-I, Australia uses PAL-B/G. If you can find a manual for your TV, see if you can use your on-screen menu to change to PAL B/G. If you can, you will have no problem whatsoever (until digital replaces analogue - I think in 2012). I would expect this to be possible with newer sets, but unfortunately a lot of TVs are UK models with PAL I capability only, and I don't know if this continued with the analogue LCDs and Plasmas.

2. If you can't change the type of PAL directly, it's sometimes possible to change the set's country to Spain or Belgium or any other country that uses PAL B/G. The difference is in the way sound is transmitted - with a PAL I set in Australia you can pick up the picture for most challels but no sound. But, some channels are still transmitted on VHF, so that's why there's B and G (for VHF and UHF). PAL I is UHF only (i.e. the UK) - okay far too much information.

3. Failing not being able to switch with your menu, there's the option of getting a digital set top box when you get here. This means the digital tuner inside the box does all the work and passes the signal to you tv in a form that it can display the pictures and sound without having to use its own built-in tuner.

4. The last and most expensive option is to get a TV technician to open up your tv and fit a tuner that works with PAL B/G. This probably means it would no longer work in the UK - so it would have to be done just prior to packing. Also, you wouldn't be able to test the job had been done properly until it got here - a few months down the line. By which time the technician would be down the pub with his mates... maybe not, but telling you you have no other option sounds dodgy to me.

Hope this helps,

Big.