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After the excellent advice and service I received from you when buying a voltage adaptor for my £99 matsui 12v TV, it is with a slight regret that I have to disagree with you. This TV is permanently fixed to a bracket in my MH and secured with a suitcase clipped strap. In use for 18 months and it has a great picture and sound!
Back to the original thread, I would go satellite straight away. My experience was start with an aerial, then a sat dish and then the CAMOS I have fitted now. With hindsight, I should have cut out the first two and saved a great deal of money. Then I could have bought Avtex TV - Not!!
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Re: New MH owner needs advice on television solutions
We've just taken a possession of our first motorhome (Ace Firenze 09 plate) and need to address the issue of televisions viewing. My previous experience of staying in my-in laws caravan hasn't been too clever.
We have an internal aerial socket but no external aerial provision. I don't want to narrow our half-term options for staying places by insisting on being able to hook up to a site's aerial.
Freeview will suffice and I can do without tv when abroad. Personally, therefore I don't see the need for Freesat systems but am happy to be convinced otherwise.
Im sat here giggling... wondered how long it would be
As with most things in life, there will be a different opinion on something depending upon their experiences. I respect that!
I would tend to agree with you Shane.
With our first RV back in 1982 I bought a multi standard, multi voltage 12" Thompson portable TV from Edgeware Road in London. It did cost about £300+ then and gawd only knows what it would cost now.
But it has worked for the past 27 years and pulled in analogue stations from just about every country in Europe. I have just sold it for €20.
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They cannot handle the vibrations and knocks that leisure tv's can.
Sorry but I totally disagree. Most travel all the way from china by all manner of transport and a circuit board is a circuit board and they dont use different or special electronic components plugs or sockets in one or the other BUT they do have a BIGGER profit margine.
I'm using an LG 22" LED tv bought new off ebay for £175 a real steal and a seperate small Sumvision HDMI DVD player £21.01 new off ebay.
150watt inverter easy no sweat hardly any loss and no voltage stabilisers to buy.
This has been covered previously, but to sum it up:
It is possible to use cheap domestic set bought from retail outlet and use voltage regulated supply. BUT, these sets are not intended for mobile use. They cannot handle the vibrations and knocks that leisure tv's can. Also, cheap tv's often have rubbish picture and sound quality. The latest leisure tv's use high quality TV panels from well known manufacturers such as Samsung. Cheap domestic tv's sometimes use cheaper computer monitor screens that have rubbish viewing angles. Also, leisure tv's have a host of features such as ability to view photo's taken on your digital camera using card readers, one touch tuning (handy when mobile travelling around) and ability to record to USB memory sticks. Yes you pay more money for leisure sets, but like anything in this world, you get what you pay for!
I sound bias to leisure tv's and that because I am due to hearing about and seeing for myself the quality and life span of domestic sets when used in the leisure setting.
Im bracing myself for the onslaught from domestic set users
As for aerial, so many people buy aerials and get so frustrated when unable to get consistant reception results. As far as as im concerned, there is only one way to go and that is satellite. It doesnt have to be expensive either!
in the past i have sold and still do repair domestic and "lesiure" tvs the leisure tv market is a con, overpriced for the same product
it is really quite shocking what people will pay a premium for. a cheap supermarket lcd with a separate 12volt psu will work just fine.
We've just installed a Toshiba TV/DVD Combi from Richer sounds in ours. THe picture is excellent quality as is the viewing angle. Plus having a combi it saves the faff on separate devices for it.
We used a wall bracket mount from Tesco which screws into a wooden coat hanger on the other side of the wall to hide the mounting point. It also acts as a load bearing plate.
The bracket is detachable so we remove the TV while travelling and then simply slot it into place when we are stopped.
Not tried TV reception as the aerial did not get a signal in North Devon. So we are probably going down the route of a dome as these are under a £1000 now.
I use a Comet ownbrand TV. The DVD version had a separate power supply to provide the 12v. I do use an Amperor stabiliser. The main reason for choosing it was I had very little depth available and this TV had all the connections on the side.
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