It all depends on the tuner capabilities.
Does the main setup menu give you an option for which country?
Apart from mpeg-2, it must also be 7mhz channel bandwidth and cover the Australian channel plan.
What is the model number?
Just need to know if its as simple as taking my samsing lcd to Australia, plugging it in and it working no problems on freeview in aus? I understand the formats are different, NZ uses mpeg4/avc, Aus uses mpeg2. Should my tv handle both formats, or will it need a firmware upgrade? or even worse is this a no go all together? will I need to get an external terrestrial set-top unit? Thanks
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It all depends on the tuner capabilities.
Does the main setup menu give you an option for which country?
Apart from mpeg-2, it must also be 7mhz channel bandwidth and cover the Australian channel plan.
What is the model number?
Worst case you need to get a new set top box if the TV is not compatible. They are cheap now like $50.
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Be careful with Samsung,also it may void warranty if you ship it,i seem to have bad run with Samsung, My Sat box (Samsung) smoke up, couldn't get parts, my relos microwave(SAMSUNG) went up in smoke @ 3am (for no reason) and I saw a story on ACA a guy owns a motel, got a dozen Samsung Projector TV went off, cant get parts for them, so he threw all of them in the swimming pool. Lol!!
Personally, I wouldn't bother with the hassle & risk of shipping it, possible compatability and warranty issues.
Sell it in NZ and buy another one (probably even a later model) in Australia.
Are you also shipping your 3.6m solid sat dish to Oz?
I have an Aussie Samsung lcd HDTV and it has a crappy tuner compared to my Topfield Stb
So don't expect to much.
I cant find the damn frequency chart for NZ but one site showed channels for Aukland area and they are different to ours.
Not that the channel numbers matter but their ch 60 is shown as 783.250 where ours is 753.625, its the frequency difference that could be the problem.
All those NZ channels listed ended in XXX.250 but we use XXX.500 or XXX.625
If you can manualy tune it, it should work but if its preset, I dont know.
Also I couldnt find out if they are 5,6,7 or 8 Mhz spacings, all I know is they do use Pal.
My little Chinese SD digital TV allows me to manualy enter both channel frequency and spacing as it defaults to the Chinese 6 Mhz spacing used in China on UHF.
If MTV sees this he might be able to advise if that frequency difference will be a problem.
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You'll get some audio problems....the vowels will sound different...
PAL is an analogue video format and not used for digital transmissions.
The NZ channel plan is slightly different to the Australian UHF channel plan.
NZ DVB-T is all UHF, Australia is a mix of VHF and UHF.
NZ DVB-T uses a channel bandwidth of 8MHz and Australia uses 7MHz.
NZ DVB-T uses the following compression scheme (notably MPEG4, whilst Australia is MPEG2 at this time)
NZ compression.... H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, 1080i25, 720p50 or 576i25; Audio: HE AAC MPEG 4, MPEG1 Layer II /Musicam, or Dolby Digital (AC-3) 32, 44.1 & 48KHz.
My conclusion....
If the NZ Samsung will tune the Australian UHF channel plan and can decode MPEG2, both SD and HD with 7MHz channel bandwidth, it should work.
As mentioned, an Australian-compliant HD STB could be used on it if the integrated tuner isn't compatable, however, I still think you'd be better off selling it in NZ and buying another one once in Australia.
No transport/possible damage issues, full compatability with Aust DVB-T standards (incl future MPEG4 standards changes) new warranty.
Series 6 have crap tuners, but series 7 LED have very sensitive, much
improved tuners in my experience.
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