Bringing PS3 home.

[Pebblesuk]

we are going to buy a PS3 when we go to florida this year for DS, Just wondering how to carry it home. Is it ok to bring as hand luggage or does it have to go in the suitcase. Anyone had experience of bringing one back? thanks.

[Highwind]

You'll be hard pressed to get it into your hand luggage!

[Jools]

We have brought one home on two separate occasions. We kept them boxed each time and put them in a small suitcase which we bought at Walmart for $24. We packed towels around it for more padding.

If you took it out off all of the packaging you'd get it in a backpack. It would really depend how strict any particular airline is with the weight of hand luggage. Some are strict some don't weigh it at all. Who are you flying with?

[Dissuziq]

We went to vegas last december and brought one back. I risked putting it in my case with clothes packed around it. It is quiet heavy though 7.5kg. but when we got it home it was great no problems. But 3 weeks after christmas it stopped reading discs, its an issue with them evidently and lots of them have had this problem?

Sony uk were not interested in the ps3 cos it was bought in the usa but luckily We bought it at Walmart and good old asda refunded the price when we returned it to them as it was still under my 90 days for returns.

Just a word of warning and a suggestion that maybe walmart is a good place to buy.

[Pebblesuk]

Thanks, we are flying with mytravel,thomas cook now I think , Have looked at them at walmart online and they seem a good price,and as you can return them to asda it seems a good place to get one from. Will probably risk it in the case then padded with towels, probably too heavy to get away with it as hand luggage.

[Jools]

My Travel have always weighed the hand luggage when we have travelled with them so I would say your suitcase is the best place for it.

[castanea1985]

I thought the US tv's had different pixels to our systems and anything that runs through the TV, won't work as well???

Hence PAL and other systems??

Interested to hear anything different??

Tracy

[spoony]

I thought the US tv's had different pixels to our systems and anything that runs through the TV, won't work as well???

Hence PAL and other systems??

Interested to hear anything different??

Tracy

You will find nearly all TVs built in the last 5 or so years (probably a bit further back than that) can deal with an NTSC signal. If you have a flat LCD or plasma it is unlikely you would have any problem.

Also as PS3 runs HD and people would be likely to run it on an HD TV there is no difference in that signal between US and rest of the world.

Should be fairly easy to check your own TVs compatibility on the net.