Taking TV's to Canada
 

Can anyone answer a quick query for me, are we able to take UK TV's to Canada, we have a 40" flatscreen relatively new TV and were wondering wether to sell or take with us? Can you get converters foir the power supply etc. Thanks

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I might be wrong but how I see it is that UK system is PAL. Canadian is NSTC. Some TVs are multi region, you will need to check your manufactures instructions for details.
If yours is not NSTC then it can only be used as a monitor, ie viewing other devices such as WII, X box etc.
Can anyone clarify?

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Save yourself the hassle and flog it ;)

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Yeah no point taking it.
You can get a 52" 1080p LCD at Costco for under $1,000 these days

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It is possible to get inverters to deal with the power differences. As others have said the PAL vs NTSC issue is more of a problem but check the tv specs to see if it will handle the standard over here.

Having said this I think it would be far simpler and cheaper to just purchase a new tv over here, you then won't have to worry about an inverter plus the cost of shipping the tv over

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surely PAL vs NTSC is only an issue if you're watching analogue TV, either broadcast or cable, and using the TV's own tuner circuitry? With digital cable or satellite (and frankly, I can't see the point of having a great big TV if you're not watching a digital signal anyway) it's all component video or HDMI anyway so the broadcast standard is irrelevant, isn't it?

It's worth looking at your TV manual. Increasingly those sold in the UK are dual PAL/NTSC capable, and several are 100-240V, 50-60Hz. If yours is, and you're shipping a load of household goods anyway, you might as well put the TV in the container. $1000 is still a lot of money for a new one if there's no incremental cost involved in shipping one that will work.

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and the big upside is that it will still PAL compatible
Multi region/multi votlage units sell for Double here as a rule

Check the manual you may save yourself a lot of hassle and cost by bringing it

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Personally for me, although the NTSC thinh is not an issue if you are using a HDMI cable, I would not want something like a tv set plugged into a power converter all day long.

Thats my own little worry though. I sold mine which was less that two years old.

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But that’s the point many electronic units use Switch Mode Power supplies now instead of the older transformer designs inside

This means they work on voltages that range from 60v up to about 300v and on frequencies from about 45hz to about 90hz

So going form 240v 50hz to 120v 60hz is easy, you just change the plug

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Don't listen to people who say flog it because the systems are different. All modern TV's in europe will be multi-sync, and have been since the 90's - not that it matters since you can use HDMI anyway.

As Oakvillian said, if it's got 100-240V printed on the back or in your TV manual then bringing it is a no-brainer. Why spend several 100's of $$ (or more) on crap you already own.

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... and if you bring a UK TV, it'll have up-to-date episodes of Corrie.

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Like Samba said, you can get cheap tv's here or in the US. Just sell your old one to an old person in the UK for a lot of money and buy a new one here.

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Why, if he's already got one?
TV's aint exactly expensive in the Uk these days. They're cheaper here, admittedly, but if he can simply bring his TV over, why go through the bother of selling it for a couple of hundred quid, and forking out $1000 or more on a new one.

Oh, and I'm yet to see a 52" for under $1000 in Costco. Under $1500, maybe.

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I was just thinking if you can get your nan to buy your old tv at an inflated price then you might as well get a posh new one here. Or as you suggest, ship it over, convert it from PAL to NTSC and from 240v to 110v.

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Most Modern UK TV's can already do this.........

I know very few cheap/mid priced TV's in North America that can decode PAL

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We bought ours over and it works fine with our UK DVD player and we have cable plugged into it via the scart adaptor we had for our playstation...

works great :)

Claire

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We brought 4 TV’s. 2 really old, plasma 5 year old and LCD 1 year old. All my audio and visual equipment still works here except one of my TV’s and Stereo. But if you go to www.voltageconverters.com they will sell you the step up & down converters. I bought 3 so I can use my power tools and that TV and stereo plus my kitchen electrical equipment. They are not big so are not an eye sore to have then tucked in the corner. The TV Signal is not a problem. If your TV’s have scart sockets on the back. I would bring those leads that have the scart at one end and the 3 sockets, yellow, red, white on the other end. that’s the way to connect the satellite box here or if you have an HDMI socket. You are ok anyway.

As for plugging them all in this is what I advice. Bring as many extension plug boards. The ones you can plug several items into. Then at the airport buy an plug adaptor for each extension, or wait till you get here and go to walmart and buy the Canadian plugs and change the extension plug for the Canadian one. Then you can plug all your normal TV’s DVD’s Games consoles etc into the plug boards then you just have one plug in the wall socket. Easy. :)

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hi we brought our small flat screen tv here from the uk...just changed the plug and it works a treat...tied us over till we got our 50" plasma :)