Originally Posted by Goodacre

We brought all of our stuff like that and I am very pleased we did. As long as you have a bit of space and are willing to do a little work, it's worth it. The TV is not going to be any good for American TV, but why not set it up with the Playstation in another room, and then you have a dedicated playstation telly? Never again will they be on the Playstation when you want to watch something. Step up/down transformer will do for both.

On the VCR front, we bought a Pal/NTSC converter, and then plugged our British VCR into the American telly. My brother sends us regular videos from the UK of UK telly, and it's a real pleasure to be able to watch them on our main telly.

My wife wrote a piece on how we had navigated our way around all the electrical and TV related issues, with an annotated photo, at http://uktous.blogspot.com/2006/11/e...ectronics.html [and cf. also an older post at http://uktous.blogspot.com/2006/02/e...ctronics.html]

That's how we coped with it, but as you are already seeing from this thread, others have coped differently.

Originally Posted by Irn-bru

Thats what we did and what I'd recommend if you're not paying for moving. More for gaming as the OP seems to have highlighted as getting new games are a pain and expensive. Especially if you have loads of old games and dvds.
We didn't have the money to buy DVD and VCR players that plays both UK and US DVDs.
So having another set up for games and DVDs sounds great to me if you have the space.

Originally Posted by Irn-bru

Thats what we did and what I'd recommend if you're not paying for moving. More for gaming as the OP seems to have highlighted as getting new games are a pain and expensive. Especially if you have loads of old games and dvds.
We didn't have the money to buy DVD and VCR players that plays both UK and US DVDs.
So having another set up for games and DVDs sounds great to me if you have the space.

Originally Posted by Goodacre

Good point about who pays for the moving. We were lucky in that work paid for everything so we didn't have to worry about footing that bill.

On DVD players, we bought an American one and then did a handset hack to make it multi regional.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

We brought a TV, VCR and VHS tapes...however our then 11 yr old soon grew out of them.

Originally Posted by Irn-bru

Its more gaming I'm thinking of as I have a stack of games

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

OK I'm not into games nor was our daughter.

Originally Posted by Irn-bru

Yes if you are a gamer its a killer as its $50 for a new game here, you can see how it stacks up.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

OK I'm not into games nor was our daughter. Come to think of it what are you doing?

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

$50!!!!...I'll obviously have to reduce your allowance.

Originally Posted by Irn-bru

I am supposed to be doing my PP which I've put off until today and I just can't get into it, it normally would be finished by now

We had 8 for an Indian dinner party last night so was busy Mon and Tues doing that, but it was good and they appreciated it. Just got naan bread and poppadoms and that did the trick they were impressed with that and it took their minds of how simple the main dish was

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

I hate to ask...but what's a PP?

Well done...but when I visit no foreign food for me please...I'm a meat and two veg girl but then you know that already.

Originally Posted by Irn-bru

sorry I call it that, powerpoint presentation

And chicken tikka masala being our UK national dish!

Originally Posted by Irn-bru

Haven't tried hacking ours yet, scared I'd ruin it and don't really understand how you do it, as long as you don't have to open anything up etc!

Ours paid as well or I wouldn't have done it.

Originally Posted by Goodacre

Handset hack is dead easy. You just google the name of your DVD player + the words "handset hack" and follow the instructions. Doddle. And worth it.