[baboonworld]

sorry - i am sure you have already answered this - but i have read on another site that our tellys are no good in NZ.

Has anyone taken theirs over and if so is it okay??

Mine are not digital - just normal tellys!

:uhoh

[GeorgeM]

sorry - i am sure you have already answered this - but i have read on another site that our tellys are no good in NZ.

Has anyone taken theirs over and if so is it okay??

Mine are not digital - just normal tellys!

:uhoh

We have one UK TV left which is just used to play videos. It's totally useless for receiving free to air broadcast-through-the-ether type stuff, but I believe that it could be used as a receiver for Sky.

Probably not worth bringing - at best they have very limited use here.

[markkellaway]

Have to agree with George, we are bringing a 14" one over for Andrew's PS2 but are selling the rest. I'm going to buy a nice 100Hz one with Progressive Scan in NZ if Anne lets me!! :yes :yes :yes

Mark. :P

[Diny]

I'm going to buy a nice 100Hz one with Progressive Scan in NZ if Anne lets me!!


Boys and their toys eh !!!!!!!!

Hubby keeps harping on about some flash bang wallop TV he's planning on buying in NZ.

We too are just taking a 14" one for the boys PS2.

Diny

[sarahw]

We brought 2 almost brand new large tv's with us from the UK (had just bought them before we moved in together & neither of us was willing to budge on getting rid!) - they work on Sky perfectly but don't work on terrestrial TV. To be quite honest if you have a few TV's you're more than likely (unless you have kids) not going to need them as there's not much decent stuff to watch - even on Sky apart from the sports channels!

Just bear in mind if you do get Sky installed that you tell the fitter before he gets to your house that you have a UK TV as they use a different connection at the back of the TV instead of SCART so will need to have the cables with them.

[baboonworld]

Can you convert the TV?? I mean the TV#s must coem from Japan int he first place so I owuld have thought they all would be basically the same.

It is a brand new one (well a few months old) and a Sony - which I thought you could buy in NZ. So what is the difference???

[spodie]

Has anyone brought a t.v. from the U.S. to play games on? Does that work?

[jonSE]

US TV would not work. need a transformer to convert 240v to 110v and then convert 60Hz to 50Hz. Sell your US TV and buy a NZ TV when you get here.

On second thoughts forget the NZ TV there is little worth watching here anyway.

Even Maori tv loses it's appeal after an hour or so - about when I wake up having watched a bit of the fishing program.

Jon
Apparently we (wife and I) do talk to each other more. - quick turn the telly on!

[sarahw]

Right OK I'm not technical so no poking fun if I get the techy stuff wrong here but we (NZ & UK) both work on PAL system for TV but UK audio is different from NZ audio - so the probelm is that you don't get any sound if you plug your TV in but you can get a picture. I think there may be a way of getting your TV 'converted' - reckon you'd have to take it to a specialist, but I'm too lazy to find out & Ian wanted Sky to get UK footie & the rugby channel so we'll probably never have to find out...

[sarahw]

Just read last 2 posts after responding to baboonworld - JonSE is right - US TV not worth bringing

[baboonworld]

So - the verdict is ...

... as long as you get Sky then the UK tv will work???

[sarahw]

Yep that's it :nice1

[Hannah-NL]

Now wondering if our "dutch" TV's will work over there :? (Philips)

[Robert Dazzler]

I bought my 2 yr old "Schnieder" (Asda) widescreen TV over and it worked fine, sound & vision.

Bobby.

[lidax]

Hi

I believe most TV's have a transformer inside them so actually do notrun at mains voltage inside. I have a US 110 TV running on UK mains by using a transformer. Most TVs are the same and use auto set up. You need to turn off remembered setting and let it find the new ones. This information is on the internet if you use google often it it is a series of key presses on the remote to change the settings to different countries. The information is often in the tech section no one reads.

Help this is useful.

Fraser

[marcia]

Anybody any idea about a 42 inch plasma tv??

Firstly would the removal companies take it, would it work in NZ.

How much are plasma tv's out there to buy.

Bit early to ask these questions as we haven't even filled an EOI in yet but there are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO many questions to ask! I already spend hours on this site reading all the info you lot have put on.

It's a fantastic site!

[sarahw]

I'd bring it - the shipping companies can ship almost anything - they crated our large wide-screen TV's up. Cost a bit more but they arrived in good condition.

Plasma screens start around $9999 if I remember rightly - please correct me if I'm wrong its been a few months since I was electrical goods shopping.

[Gran]

Plasma screens are now $4999 42 inch, in The Warehouse aprox $2890.

[ErwinT]

There's hope for PAL TV users at the bottom of this post (after the tech babble, so bear with me). :mrgreen:

With bringing TV's or VCR's there are 2 issues apart from the mains voltage:

- TV system (PAL/NTSC)
- Tuner (to pick the TV signals out of the air)

First, the TV system.
Europe uses PAL, with 25 frames a second and 625 lines.
The U.S and Japan use NTSC, 30 frames a second and 500-something lines and a different color coding scheme.
To convert one TV system to another is quite hard, so when your TV is NTSC it is useless to bring it to NZ. :no Maybe your TV can be fitted with some European PAL circuit board for the same model, but I'd only do that when your TV was really expensive, because otherwise it might be just as expensive to do as buying a new TV in the first place. Newer european TV's can play PAL as well as NTSC, but I suspect most American TV's can play only NTSC and not PAL. It's worth to take a look in your manual to check this, though.

Second, the tuner.
Different countries use different frequencies for their radio and TV signals, so your European TV might not be able to pick up the signals from the air (like someone would have their radio station at 122 FM, not able to set your radio to that frequency). Or, when the frequencies are the same they might use different ways of encoding the sound (AM or FM, digital or analog). So there's quite a chance your TV won't work for that. VCR's won't work either for receiving programs, you can still use them to play back PAL tapes though.

HOWEVER, there's hope for owners of PAL TV's with a video-in connection (scart plug or yellow cinch/phono plug). :raebanana You can buy a VCR in NZ, and connect it to your PAL TV through the video connection (NOT the RF antenna cable! Some really cheap VCR's don't have a video connection, only a RF connection, so check for that). In that way you can use the VCR as a tuner. You would then have to watch TV through your VCR, but it beats watching nothing at all, dunnit? ;)
As someone mentioned earlier they don't use scart in NZ, so before you leave for NZ buy a converter plug at your local TV shop (about 7 Pounds, 10 Euros). These plugs convert the scart connection to a cinch/phono connection, and then you can use NZ cables.

So if you have a PAL TV which you're very satisfied about, bring it along. Small TV's I would ditch and buy new ones in NZ.
VCR's are useless but to play PAL tapes through the video connection.
DVD recorders are useless too for recording, DVD players will work fine, if they can play back PAL and if you can set the region code to zero (but that's another thread)

Good luck! :nice1

PS anyone from Holland had any luck with picking up the NZ TV signals from the air with a Dutch TV? :smile

[jo b]

Erwin

That was very understandable techno babble. Thanks even I understood that :clap :clap

Jo

[StevieD]

Older UK tv's will not work over there. Best to keep them for using as a DVD/video/games screen. However I just got a Sanyo from Tesco and it has the NZ tv standard on the system, so yes some will work dual standard!
The reason the older ones will not work is down to the audio (sound sub-carrier frequency) being a different spacing from the video signal in the two systems. A retune of the system is a specialist job and probably not worth bothering with.

Steve :exit

[ErwinT]

For the real techies:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/static/html/pal-ntsc-secam.html
http://www.theavguide.co.uk/worldvideoformats.html
http://www.theavguide.co.uk/tvstandardsbycountry.html
http://www.tvradioworld.com/directory/Television_Standards/default.asp

From the map on the bottom of the first page above:
NZ uses PAL-B/G
UK uses PAL-I

This means indeed the sound isn't compatible for aired broadcasts (look in the table PAL on the page above and see that the sound carrier has a different value). The story about using a local VCR as tuner remains standing though, that will work, don't worry ;)

If you have a newer TV it might be multi system, so look in the manual if your TV can be set to PAL-B/G and you might be fine. If the frequencies of the TV signals is comparable, and if the way of encoding the sound is the same. The UK uses NICAM for sound and NZ as well, so that might work out just fine.

NL uses the same system as NZ (PAL B/G), so if the frequencies used in NZ are comparable to the NL frequencies, then it looks like Dutch TV's should work in NZ, even for aired broadcasts. :nice1
However, as NZ uses digital NICAM for stereo sound, and Holland uses analog A2 for stereo sound, the reception will be mono.

[miep]

Yep, the tv we brought from Holland work just fine here. :nice1

I've no idea about the stereo/mono thing though. I think our tv is a stereo one but just haven't paid attention whether it actually does stereo here. I think you can tell I don't watch a lot of tv ;)

:cheers Miep