Flat Screen TV, 12V or 240V and for working in Europe

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Another TV post. Quick questions am I better getting a 240V flatscreen TV, plenty around and relatively cheap or 12V TV, slightly more expensive and not as good choice. In Europe will a UK TV work, with an aerial or digibox or do I need something else to get a picture in Europe, use this for weather (that’s the idea)

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Peter
 
Thomson do a range of these flat screen TV's. (and they are wideangle). Has all the accessory inputs for scart, PC input, etc and option to include DVD player. Runs on 12v and 220/240v. All auto tuning with tuning for country and "all Europe" tuning.
 
Yes, MOST of these flat panels, well the medium sized ones anyway run on 12vdc through a plug-top psu so your boat voltage will do fine. Also, apart from france with it's SECAM system, the rest use a version of PAL (as we do) and it is only the sound standard and frequency seperation that needs to be changed. I have looked around the sets being offered in supermarkets and Comet, Curry's etc and found that almost invariably they offer a "sound system selection" in their set-up menus which will allow you to use you set perfectly well in Europe.

We have a small flat panel with built-in digital decoder*. Screen is only 8" but that is a choice based upon power consumption. In Greece it works fine where we get CNN, EuroNews and the fantastic "Star" which seems to get top flight movies far sooner than they appear on FtV channels in the UK and the dialogue is in English with Greek subtitles. (Since the limited Greek language market doesn't make dubbing into Greek economically viable apparently - great for us AND the subtitles help with our language learning!)

Steve Cronin

* the DTB mast on Mt Pandocrator will be operational on June 1st with line of sight over most of the northern Ionian.
 
We bought a cheap satellite receiver & aerial and used it to pick up free-to-air broadcasts while in Spain. We got !00s of channels, including most of UK digital channels. A similar set on offer at Lidl this week or next at under £60.
Major limitation - aerial must be on land, on a wobbly boat it won't stay lined up with satellite - unless you lash out on a (very expensive) satellite following dish
 
<< We are looking for one of these as well. Must work in the UK and The Netherlands. >>

We bought a Philips 12" universal TV in the Netherlands. It works all over Europe, including Secam. It does most things, computer monitor, etc but wasn't very cheap.

Note that although Netherlands, and some other countries, are on PAL they are not the same as UK, the audio channel is different. When we returned from Netherlands we had to dump our TV and video, wouldn't receive sound here.
 
Also be aware, that NL switched off the analog signals as per nov 2006. You must have a DVB-T receiver for TV (or sat).
Public stations (NL1, NL2, NL3 and regional ) via DVB-T are free-to-air, remaining stations are not. BBC is not available at all (yet), CNN and other require a subscription which costs you approx. € 150 /year. Receiver costs approx € 80.=
 
A public word of thanks for trying to help me sort out a suitable TV for my rather restricted space, via email. Much appreciated, Martin.
 
If you can hold of the larger Avtex with built-in DVD (also is 12V, with Freeview and good resolution for PC use) let me know, I'd be interested in one.
 
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