Sleeping Beauty

is it okay?

i have done a search, talks about tuning in, a bit beyond me im afraid. specially when ive had a few sherbets!!

can we take our uk TV to autsaralia in the shipping?

or should we sell the buggar?

baglady

As far as I know, the chances are your TV won't work over there. If it's more than two years old it will probably have a different version of PAL, so the sound won't work. We have a TV we are taking though because you can apparently get them converted. If it's a good Telly and cost you a bit it might still be worth taking.

steve`o

take it with you dear

you can buy a chepo DVD or Digi box in aus and it`ll work ok

baglady

Yup, you can get the sound through that. Actually, if you have an amp for the sound, it'll be fine too.

Nicstids

Our telly is 13 years old (at least!) and we brought it. (We had a 40 ft container so put absolutely everything in it )

It works absolutely fine with a $79 set top box from Aldi. No tuning/conversion etc required.

We've bought a new LCD telly to go in the Home Theatre room

Abject_Rage

We brought 3 TVs of varying ages over with us a few months ago. All of them work no problems, no issues with any 'versions' of PAL or sound. As everyone else is saying here, the TV tuner won't work but any digi box, VCR or DVR will do the job.

In fact, we had a DV Recorder (Liteon) from the UK and THAT tuner works perfectly in Australia. Just went into the 'Settings' menu, changed it from UK to Aus, and it picked up all the TV channels fine - even auto-tuned in and named them all correctly! (Seven, Nine, Ten, ABC, SBS)

galloping gaijin

Definitely don't think about buying a new telly, the offering on the 5 channels is pretty poor, and with the climate and better OPs to get out, you'll probably end up using the 'idiot box' a lot less than in Blighty.

iPom

Yes, this is so true. We tend to read at the mo or play silly board games in the evening over a bottle of wine. (It's a riot at my house, you'd love it... )
We watch the ABC a bit if it's raining because that's very good for children's programmes in the afternoon (I have three children, plus my husband so that's four)
Other than that, it hardly ever goes on because we're at the park after school, or at the lake, or on a bush walk. We've sort of got out of the habit of TV because we had a month without one, so the kids are automatically playing when we get in, or reading. It's excellent.

Sleeping Beauty

thanks for all your replies, looks like its coming then.