Hi everyone, I will be moving to Zurich in September with my wife, and have a few questions regarding TVs and if my US nintendo wii will work in an european tv.
Right now I have three options and I need your help to decide.

1) Buy a multisystem TV in the U.S. and take it with me in the move, multisystem TV are a little bit more expensive than regular ones, but I still think it is cheaper than buying one in Zurich, this way I know the wii will work fine, and I can bring back the TV once the assignment is over.

2) Take my existing TV (no PAL) and buy a video and voltage converter.

3) Buy a TV in Zurich, but I am not sure if the wii will work or not.

Friends have told me other expats always sell their electronics when they leave, but I searched the martketpalce in the forum and other websites, but haven't found many options.


Thanks for your help,

Juan M.

Buy a TV in Switzerland and support the local economy! We need it.

Shop around and you can pick up a 42" HD Ready Plasma for CHF 999. Sell it later for CHF 600 or so and save hassle/headache with converters and so on.

Your Nintendo should work just fine - personally i prefer to play Wii on a BIG screen with a beamer.

Make sure you get 3 HDMI connections.

Good luck.

John

With the weakness of the USD and strength of the CHF, this may not be the chepest option. You will still have the issues of
a) will the TV work from 230V?
b) does it cover the S-band cable channels?
c) does it support the dual language system used here?

Voltage coverter = transformer, will cost something, how much depends on power demand of TV. Could be a couple of hundred francs.
Video vonverter PAL to NTSC? Forget it. You'll be forced to use AV-IN, and most of the settop boxes here are PAL output and I don't think they do NTSC.

This is you best choice.