Recommendations for cheap on board TV .. also aerial

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Would prefer a small LCD (power consumption) any ideas? Also is it best to have an unidirectional aerial at the mast top or will an indoor aerial be OK in most places?
 
There is no point in having a unidirectional aerial at the top of the mast, because you would have to turn the whole boat around to pick up a signal. I think you will find an omni directional works better.

Anyway, you have gone down in my estimation just by contemplating putting a TV on board !
 
I use my home computer monitor Samsung syncmaster 171 mp ( have tuner ) for home and for boat TV - perfect ! Antenna is GLOMEX at the top of the mast for local stations.
 
I bought one, this is a fabulous TV.

Not go a bad word to say about it, oh, maybe one, there is no expansion card slot to upgrade freeview should you want to, maybe something I would have liked when we move aboard, but will not be important once we cross the channel, so a minute gripe.

Definitely recommend!

Edit>> Also from what I can fathom, it is not just freeveiw, but digital television, so should work abroad, hopefully, also it suggests that it will receive high definition television, I think!
 
I really do not think that a little LCD whould be suitable for such as GR. Go the whole hog and have a mains powered wide screen TV fitted. I'm sure you could rig a generator into some recess. Also, I find that it's best to have a large sofa on which to undertake one's viewing. This may mean some internal rearranging, but I'm sure it will be worth it given the vast array of interesting and stimulating progreammes that are available.

As to the aerial, I'm sure you could seek advice from a PBO chappie and see whether you can integrate an omnidirectional item into your black ball. The alternative would be fixing a unidirectional aerial attached to the boat's wheecher, and using a pulley system to keep it pointed in the correct direction while at anchor.

I do hope that this is helpful.
 
See....

if this suits your needs LCD DVD & TV (Picture below)

or any of the other offerings on the site.

NB
Tesco are currently offering a BEKO 17" flat screen LCD TV for £199 which runs on 12V DC and can be bulkhead mounted - but it consumes 60watts

Steve Cronin

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I bought a cheap Beko Washer three years ago as a 'put on' until I moved and bought a fancy new one. It is used twice a day every day of the year by SWMBO (so she tells me) and is still working. It is a value line but if it lasts.....

Paul
 
Re: See....

Dunno.

They are in our local Tesco though -stacked ten high and five deep. There is also a widescreen version - did I mention that?

Steve eCronin
 
One question please....

I note that it has multi lingual menu displays. Does this mean that it is also switchable for PAL I & PAL G/B sound? This is important to us as our boat is in Greece.

Steve Cronin
 
Re: One question please....

yes, I have never seen this before and stuffed up the setting when I was first tuning it. Could not work out why all I was getting was hiss rather than decent sound. I had not realised how many standards there were and this little TV seems to have all of them.

Don't know about secam though, is that still used in France?
 
Re: One question please....

"Don't know about secam though, is that still used in France? !

Oui, d'accord!

Toujours la difference!

Steve Cronin

Thanks for the info
 
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