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Buy one when u get there......

Kiwi fruits work in Europe so there is probably some reciprocal agreement that European TV's will work in New Zealand.

DNA

actually you need to determine if the country is PAL or NTSC format on the video.

What possible use could a tv set be anymore?

Use of a PC plugin and a decent display makes infinitely more sense.

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No. NZ uses PAL-B with sound-vision spacing of 5.5 MHz, The UK, AFAIK, still uses PAL-I with sound-vision spacing of 6.0 MHz. Plus NZ still transmits a lot on the "Low-band VHF" channels (44 to 68 MHz)

Anyway, they are pretty cheap these days. eg: a couple of prices (in NZD) from today's junk mail:

14" $109 to $149. 21" $199 to $339

Barry Lennox

He said "Europe". How about, say, Germany. Don't they use another flavor/flavour of PAL?

Even the smaller plasma sets are getting pretty cheap.

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why bother? i looked into something similar (going from UK to France) its not worth the trouble,or expense to cart a big item any distance,cheaper to get one locally a few buy in spain to take to france as it works out cheaper apparently! must be some b***** expensive TV's to be worth the fuel involved.

Europe used to be (still is?) all splintered up. In Germany I had to use a VCR that can auto-switch between PAL and SECAM, the French system. TV sets could not do that except for one but only because I hacked it. The OP would have to look up the standards and differences between NZ and whatever country he bought his TV in. At least for these issues: Channels and spacing, audio carrier(s), color system.

I've heard that they don't last very long. Wanted to get a cheap laptop for the road at a post-Thanksgiving sale. Of course, all the good stuff was gone by then. Walked out the store and that was through the TV aisle. Looked at a few flat-screen TVs and was rather surprised to see very high prices for 2-year warranty extensions. Up to $200 for sets that cost around $1000. That is a whopping 20% warranty overhead after the typical 1-year period. This got me thinking, usually the quality and longevity of a product is inversely proportional to the yearly cost of the warranty.

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** Europe is has many broadcast TV standards in use - it ALL depends on which country. Your IP address indicates you are posting from Sweden, which does appear to use the same ( analogue) signal standards as NZ.

However, NZ uses the VHF band from 44 MHz to 238 MHz ( gap from 68 to

174 ) to provide 12 ( analogue) TV channels while many European TVs have tuners that are UHF only.

See:

NZ presently has no free to air *digital* TV signals, but will likely have them in the next year or two. Then the TV set only has to accept a PAL video signal from a digital STB in one of the common formats ie, composite, S-Video or Component Video.)

...... Phil

Apparently the life is improving. The technology is getting better rapidly enough that one probably shouldn't count on keeping it for 8 or 10 years though.

I'm not sure there's any real relationship. The store chains have cut margins to the bone on the bare hardware itself, so they're practically forced to overcharge on "optional" extras such as extended warranties, cables and flat-screen mounting brackets (all of which is

to me a year or so ago.

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According to these websites:

Sweden and NZ both have VHF and UHF PAL (B/G). And both are 230V 50Hz power.

But I have no idea how accurate the websites are.

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** No guarantee that Swedish TVs have tuners installed covering the low end of the VHF band.

No guarantee the OP is in Sweden, anyhow.

Totally stupid to take a foreign market TV into NZ without proof the same model is ( or was) sold there - or no service info or essential spares will be available.

....... Phil

Good point, I assumed the UK.

It will be important to get low band coverage as NZ uses Channels 1,2 and 3 (44-68MHz) a lot. It seems a pointless exercise given the low cost of (CRT at least) sets here. As a minimum you will need to change the mains plug to the Aust/NZ style, or futz about with a "converter"

Not too cheap. 42" Plasma is about $2700-3500. LCD are less, about $600 upwards for 15" and about $2000 for 26"

Barry

I've seen LG brand (Korean chaebol*) 42" Plasma for CDN 1499 (well under US 1500 with tax). LCDs are a bit cheaper even in relatively large screen sizes, but the picture tends to look pretty washed out when viewed much off the axis. I think LCDs look sharper close up.

• okay, "jaebol". Why did the Koreans have to go and change their romanization scheme? It made a Gimpo of the airport (formerly Kimpo).

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Even the (apparently) same model may have variations to customize it to the country where it is sold.

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Hello Phil,

Lived in Europe until mid-90's. All TV sets had VHF low band and VHF high band. In fact, most sets had tuners that went all the way from around 35MHz to 860MHz or so. That is because cable networks use "extra channels" which causes some grief because of leakage.

Not always stupid. We took ours because we had tons of tapes with cherished old movies and comedies. No way we could rent any of these here in the US. Only lasted 10 years or so though, then the first tapes began to lose sync :-(

Oh, and for the first 8 months after the move we had no live TV at all. Didn't need it...

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Here's an interesting article on TV display technologies, and what's in the pipeline:

Barry

"Joerk"

** Pedantic twaddle.

** Irrelevant drivel.

......... Phil

The set was bought in Sweden. Sweden and NZ both have PAL B/G and 230 V ac 50 Hz. Only a converter is needed to provide power at NZ.

The new employer will transport everything but will not pay at least in part to cover cost of any item. So the rconomic dictates to carry it.

Some responses here have been confusing.

Checked up with PANASONIC and a few other manufacturers in Sweden and NZ and they all confirmed it should work. Let us see how it goes.