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Like me you may have noticed that Australia, like the UK, uses the DVB-T standard for digital television. I had assumed that I would be able to take my PVR but a quick email to the manufacturer yielded the following answer - it won't work:

 

There are a number of differences between the two DVB-T systems in the UK and Australia.

 

Firstly there is the radio frequency channel plan, the channel start and

stop points are different.

 

Secondly, Australia uses the VHF band and the UK does not so a number of

channels would be missed.

 

Thirdly, in Australia the channel bandwidth is 7 MHz and the UK is 8 MHz so

no channels would be found.

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Like me you may have noticed that Australia, like the UK, uses the DVB-T standard for digital television. I had assumed that I would be able to take my PVR but a quick email to the manufacturer yielded the following answer - it won't work:

 

There are a number of differences between the two DVB-T systems in the UK and Australia.

 

Firstly there is the radio frequency channel plan, the channel start and

stop points are different.

 

Secondly, Australia uses the VHF band and the UK does not so a number of

channels would be missed.

 

Thirdly, in Australia the channel bandwidth is 7 MHz and the UK is 8 MHz so

no channels would be found.

 

Thanks for the info.

 

:x I had been wondering on the merits of taking it with us, having had pay £65 for a new one this weekend :cry:

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Guest angela m

Last weekend we bought a 37inch lcd tv with built in digi box, does this mean that it wont work at all when we ship it over??

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Hi Angela, I suggest that you bring the new tv that you have brought as we have a Panasonic viera lcd tv (which you can few photos on and record via the built in didgi thingy) and when we connected it up to an aussie digibox it works perfect here.

Its worth a try as they are so expensive here and back in the uk. :jiggy:

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