Portable TV recommendations

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Paulh · #1 Post by **Paulh** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:00 am

I'm looking for a portable TV and / or DVD to use when I'm camping in the van, maybe with freeview TV (if its any good)

Must be fairly sturdy and reliable - and cheap - anyone got any recommendations?

#2 Post by **Kwackerz** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:14 pm

Get a small one.

D-Rider · #3 Post by **D-Rider** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:26 pm

Get a solar-powered one ..... and a torch if you want it to work at night .

Gio · #4 Post by **Gio** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:39 pm

It'll have to have a CRT in it, flat screens are 2 fragile.

And in grey as the other colours get manky quickly.

Tweaker · #5 Post by **Tweaker** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:49 pm

I've got one of These Not very cheap but, when I was looking, all the 12v tv's were quite pricey. Works very well and is multi standard so works abroad too. No freeview but Maplin do a Free to Air satellite kit for around £80. I have to say that, if I was buying now, I'd look for an LCD TV due to lower power consumption, maybe something like This but, Gio has a point, and I'd look to keep it in a hard case of some sort.
HTH

paddyz1 · #6 Post by **paddyz1** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:11 pm

I got one foe the Mrs with freeveiw built into it. The standard arial that came with it could not pick up any type of channel and the power anttena could only pull in normal TV. The only way to get it to work was to plug it into the home arial wich was a bit pointless. It was tried out in the northwest and also in Stoke but still was shite. Tokk it bak in the end and got my money back (£150.00) from curry's.

Paulh · #7 Post by **Paulh** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:10 pm

Kwackerz wrote:Got a small one.

Paulh · #8 Post by **Paulh** » Fri Jul 27, 2007 6:12 pm

paddyz1 wrote:I got one foe the Mrs with freeveiw built into it. The standard arial that came with it could not pick up any type of channel and the power anttena could only pull in normal TV. The only way to get it to work was to plug it into the home arial wich was a bit pointless. It was tried out in the northwest and also in Stoke but still was shite. Tokk it bak in the end and got my money back (£150.00) from curry's.

I'm getting the impression that Freeview is a waste of time with portables - looks like a DVD playing tv is the answer - but needs to be fairly sturdy and be able to run off a geni though.