3littlefigs

Can anyone tell us if my Hitachi Plasma TV will work in Australia? It's 2 years old and cost a lot of money at the time! Thanks

Mochinbach

As long as it survives the journey I would imagine it would be fine. They sell 'em out here too you know!

bobbyfaescotland

Uk T.V's use PAL I, Australian T.V's also use PAL but a different version, so your T.V will work with pictures but no sound. I think you can get them upgraded but it costs a lot of money.

The alternative is to take it with you and use a digital set top box or Foxtel to view the channels, it will work then, but only if your T.V has composite inputs as not many things use Scart in Oz.

The good news is that some of the channels air in HD so if you have and HD ready tv you will be fine.

Hope this helps

Bobby

Suni&Jay

Should work Just fine, Bought ours over and had no problems, But then again ours is just a monitor (no tuner) and we run it through the Austar box. You can get the very cheap out here. Paid $1999 in oz, £6500.00 in uk (about 5years ago) both Panasonics.
Just make sure it's packed in the original box, or you may not be insured, check with your shipping insurance.

clougherty family

Hi,

We are going back to the Uk with a plasma bought in Oz and I have been told that if you go into the settings on the plasma and there are different PAL settings then it will be ok in the UK so I'm sure that works the other way round.

JO

desperatehousewife

Sorry, i dont have a definate answer but I'm very intersested in finding out.

We just spent far too much money on a new Sony LCD a few weeks ago, then spoke to a shipper at the Emigrate show in Edinburgh last weekend who said it wouldn't work in Oz!

OH whos much more gadget knowledgable than me reckons it'll be fine using a sky (au equivelant) box or freeview box.

Hope this helps, if not E-Bay here we come!

paul and Lynz

We are living in germany at the moment and have a uk plasma tv, we get a picture but no sound, so we just play the sound through our dvd player
hth

ianandhelena

if you go to your TV's setup menu selection and choose the audio page, you may be able to alter the setting from I (UK default sound setting) to B/G (the Oz setting) - more info here:http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/W...broadcast.html

DrWho

You can get leads that convert from composite to scart though...

Whingin Pom

Right now listen carefully

Take down the model number and serial number, go onto the respective website for your tv make and look at the spec.

If it has an international tuner, and I would imagine most decent ones would, then you will be fine, mine was.

Find out what PAL you need and see if your tv has it, mine has PAL1 PAL2 NTSC SECAM

But personaly if you have a plasma this is your chance to ditch it on some other sucker and get a decent tv, i:e DLP or LCD

3littlefigs

Thanks for all your advise - I think I will risk taking it

spalen

Ours works to a point. On one channel you get sound, on another you get picture, its ok if you keep flicking between the two channels really fast, but personally I find it give me a headache after a while