Importing from US Saved Money

baby_frogmella

^^^ Ever heard of a voltage converter?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goldsource-ST-500-Watt-Voltage-Converter/dp/B00A9VWM4M/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1421003648&sr=8-3&keywords=voltage+converters

John_Gray

baby_frogmella wrote: »

^^^ Ever heard of a voltage converter?

That £42 is likely to blow any savings that might have been made by buying in the US!

cookie365

baby_frogmella wrote: »

^^^ Ever heard of a voltage converter?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Goldsource-ST-500-Watt-Voltage-Converter/dp/B00A9VWM4M/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1421003648&sr=8-3&keywords=voltage+converters

Yes. Is reading more than just the last post of the thread too much trouble for you?

Lumstorm

It would be interesting to know what TV model the OP bought as I don't imagine it will be multi-voltage so a stepdown convertor would be required and as far as I'm aware most TVs in the US can't handle the 50Hz video signal over here so it may have trouble playing back a lot of material, but all of the TVs over here built in the last few year's can handle both the 50Hz and 60Hz.

baby_frogmella

cookie365 wrote: »

Yes. Is reading more than just the last post of the thread too much trouble for you?

I apologise, should have read your earlier post #19

gjchester

Lumstorm wrote: »

It would be interesting to know what TV model the OP bought as I don't imagine it will be multi-voltage so a stepdown convertor would be required and as far as I'm aware most TVs in the US can't handle the 50Hz video signal over here so it may have trouble playing back a lot of material, but all of the TVs over here built in the last few year's can handle both the 50Hz and 60Hz.

Most systems now are 110 to 240V, its cheaper to keep to stock components than sway them for regional variations.
Similarly now a lot of the TV's "work" is done in silicon, it makes no odds to have a PAL or NTSC only set, its one system that works worldwide.

As has been mentioned the tuner probably the issue, both of our TV sets have a PAL tuner that can do oodles of countries, but they're all PAL variants US system s will have NTSC tuners.

If the OP only wants it for watching DVD/BR/SKY or Virgin where the signal comes from a set top box it probably makes no odds at all that the tuner won't understand PAL. For years we didn't have a TV aerial as the reception was crap in our area due to terrain issues, and the single always came from an intermediate box of some sort.

Lumstorm

PAL can still be an issue my NTSC PS3 will not play any PAL DVD even if the region code isn't the issue also it won't play some extras on some BD such as Harry Potter due to the video being in PAL standard. As I said our equipment is dual standard but US equipment tends to support NTSC only.

almillar

These fatcat tax avoiders...