English / Irish LCD's

niallu

Hi,

Im heading to England in 2/3 weeks and I have seen LCD tv's much much cheaper over there. I was thinking of bringing one back to Ireland but my mate said it wont work over here, unless i connect it through a DVD player.

Is there any truth in this, as I really doubt there is a difference in the technology.

Cheers Niall

hobochris

your mates full of ****.

as long as its PAL your grand.

niallu

Thanks hobochris, thats what i thought too.....women pffft

BKtje

Sorry your taking technology advice from a girl !?

/hides :pac:

Lilith306

niallu wrote: »

Thanks hobochris, thats what i thought too.....women pffft

Older UK TV's did not have a VHF tuner which ment if you where on the analogue NTL or Chorus you would not receive some channels through them and would have to go through a Irish VCR or DVD recorder to get the channels. If you have one of them systems just make sure it has VHF tuner but I think most UK LCD's do these days.

aidan_walsh

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Myxomatosis

If your getting TV with a digital tuner, try get one which can handle MPEG4 / h.264.

The large majority of TV's with digital tuner are MPEG2 because that's what freeview is broadcast in, but the Irish digital service is / will be MPEG4.

MPEG4 capable TV's will more than likely be more expensive, so if you find a real non-MPEG4 bargain then go for it, you can always get a MPEG4 set top box at a later date if you want to switch to digital.

byte

Panasonic and Toshiba are two manufacturers who have UHF-only flatscreen's in the UK, while UHF/VHF tuners available in Ireland. It'd be wise to check before committing.

Of course, if you don't receive any VHF signals, then it's irrelevant anyway!

MAJJ

You can get the TV from richersounds in Belfast delivered to the South for 20GBP. There order in from the UK if they don't have want you need in stock in Belfast.

Zonda999

Myxomatosis wrote: »

MPEG4 capable TV's will more than likely be more expensive, so if you find a real non-MPEG4 bargain then go for it, you can always get a MPEG4 set top box at a later date if you want to switch to digital.

AFAIK, the sony w4000 series is the only series available at the moment with an mpeg4 tuner built in.Thats an excellent tv alright but i wouldnt get it because of the mpeg4 tuner alone.i expect we'll see quite a few more with mpeg4 tuners in the future.France is also going mpeg4 afaik

Kashkai

I bought a Samsung series 6 through Richersounds UK website. This tv has the VHF/UHF tuners necessary to work over here but that won't be an issue if you have sky/Digital tv reception.