by November 22nd, 2009. Filed under: kitchen blenders.
I’m moving to France in a few months, I’d like to know if I ship all my electric appliances, it will work in France. I’ve got bread maker, blender, panini maker ect as well as flat screen tv, dvd player with suround system, wii, apple tv, airport…
Thank you
You’ll need power converters/adapters for all of the appliances. And some good ones, otherwise you’ll risk burning out the appliances.
As for the TV related stuff, you need to call the manufacturer or look into the manual and see if the TV is a multi-format TV or not (most are not). If not, then it won’t play back French TV on its own. You’ll need an expensive video converter box (in addition to a power converter). Something like this, http://www.amazon.co.uk/AVT-1670-Bi-directional-NTSC-PAL-SECAM-Compensation-Built/dp/B0015IMRKM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1257975138&sr=8-3 or http://sewelldirect.com/ATLONA-MULTI-SYSTEM-PALNTSC-VIDEO-CONVERTER.asp – and that’s just to deal with SD. If you need to deal with HD issues as well, then you might need something like, http://www.world-import.com/Com_World_CMD-HDX90_PAL_to_NTSC_HDMI_Video_Converter.htm It kind of depends on the gear you’re going to buy and use there.
The DVD player is fairly useless. USA is Region 1. France is Region 2. So any region based DVDs in France won’t play on your USA DVD player (unless its been unlocked, some can be if you look around online). But then the France DVD would be in PAL, so you’d need a PAL to NTSC converter if you kept the same TV.
The Surround system, if there’s nothing video related, should work with just a power converter. The audio connection types are the same in both places. Its only power that will differ.
The Wii would still work with your TV, again with a power connector. But buying Wii games in France might not work out, as there is a European Wii as is my understanding (so the France games would be designed for that).
Apple TV would still work with a power converter. iTunes is iTunes.
The Airport would also still work with a power connector. Wireless is wireless.
You should literally make a complete list of every device you want to take. Find out how much a new one would cost there in France (or somewhere in Europe that could cheaply mail to France). Then look at the cost for good power converters. And start deciding which devices might actually be worth taking financially (some likely won’t be worth it).
The TV, depends how big it is I guess. The smaller it is, the less I’d recommend taking it. Because the cost of video adapters would be so much you may as well get a new TV. But if its big enough, then you might still be better off spending on the adapters. Maybe do some research of pricing of TVs in France.
Filed under: kitchen blenders
November 22nd, 2009 at 9:34 pm
You’ll need power converters/adapters for all of the appliances. And some good ones, otherwise you’ll risk burning out the appliances.
As for the TV related stuff, you need to call the manufacturer or look into the manual and see if the TV is a multi-format TV or not (most are not). If not, then it won’t play back French TV on its own. You’ll need an expensive video converter box (in addition to a power converter). Something like this, http://www.amazon.co.uk/AVT-1670-Bi-directional-NTSC-PAL-SECAM-Compensation-Built/dp/B0015IMRKM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1257975138&sr=8-3 or http://sewelldirect.com/ATLONA-MULTI-SYSTEM-PALNTSC-VIDEO-CONVERTER.asp – and that’s just to deal with SD. If you need to deal with HD issues as well, then you might need something like, http://www.world-import.com/Com_World_CMD-HDX90_PAL_to_NTSC_HDMI_Video_Converter.htm It kind of depends on the gear you’re going to buy and use there.
The DVD player is fairly useless. USA is Region 1. France is Region 2. So any region based DVDs in France won’t play on your USA DVD player (unless its been unlocked, some can be if you look around online). But then the France DVD would be in PAL, so you’d need a PAL to NTSC converter if you kept the same TV.
The Surround system, if there’s nothing video related, should work with just a power converter. The audio connection types are the same in both places. Its only power that will differ.
The Wii would still work with your TV, again with a power connector. But buying Wii games in France might not work out, as there is a European Wii as is my understanding (so the France games would be designed for that).
Apple TV would still work with a power converter. iTunes is iTunes.
The Airport would also still work with a power connector. Wireless is wireless.
You should literally make a complete list of every device you want to take. Find out how much a new one would cost there in France (or somewhere in Europe that could cheaply mail to France). Then look at the cost for good power converters. And start deciding which devices might actually be worth taking financially (some likely won’t be worth it).
The TV, depends how big it is I guess. The smaller it is, the less I’d recommend taking it. Because the cost of video adapters would be so much you may as well get a new TV. But if its big enough, then you might still be better off spending on the adapters. Maybe do some research of pricing of TVs in France.
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