"Thomas Wentworth" wrote in
news:qXyEf.2113$8U2.457@trndny06:

How do the portable little tv's work on a boat. The ones that have
the very small screen.


Two words....Just awful. So cheap they forgot to put transistors in the
RECEIVER! The picture's decent if you're close enough to the station you
can feel the RF heating your skin from the antennas...(c;

Oh, another thing to look at....

If the screen looks WHITE when the TV is off....YOU CAN'T SEE IT IF THERE
IS ANY ambient light at all! Those are the worst!

Doesn't matter these days. Analog TV in the States will go dark in a
couple of years and only DTV will be broadcast so the stations can hit you
with user fees to watch something besides the spam....

Wanna see football? Call 1-800-FEED US MONEY and we'll turn the football
game on on your ADDRESSABLE HDTV set by remote control right in the
broadcast data stream.

(You haven't heard them say anything about that, have you?)

Pay TV comes to over-the-air broadcasting....DTV, HDTV, Digital
Radio...soon.

Larry,,,, I guess I will leave the tv at home. Who needs it anyway. A
good book, some music [cd's], and a warm ocean breeze.


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"Larry" wrote in message
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"Thomas Wentworth" wrote in
news:qXyEf.2113$8U2.457@trndny06:

How do the portable little tv's work on a boat. The ones that have
the very small screen.


Two words....Just awful. So cheap they forgot to put transistors in the
RECEIVER! The picture's decent if you're close enough to the station you
can feel the RF heating your skin from the antennas...(c;

Oh, another thing to look at....

If the screen looks WHITE when the TV is off....YOU CAN'T SEE IT IF THERE
IS ANY ambient light at all! Those are the worst!

Doesn't matter these days. Analog TV in the States will go dark in a
couple of years and only DTV will be broadcast so the stations can hit you
with user fees to watch something besides the spam....

Wanna see football? Call 1-800-FEED US MONEY and we'll turn the football
game on on your ADDRESSABLE HDTV set by remote control right in the
broadcast data stream.

(You haven't heard them say anything about that, have you?)

Pay TV comes to over-the-air broadcasting....DTV, HDTV, Digital
Radio...soon.

"Thomas Wentworth" wrote:

Larry,,,, I guess I will leave the tv at home. Who needs it anyway. A
good book, some music [cd's], and a warm ocean breeze.


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"Larry" wrote in message
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"Thomas Wentworth" wrote in
news:qXyEf.2113$8U2.457@trndny06:

How do the portable little tv's work on a boat. The ones that have
the very small screen.

The little ones with the very small screen don't work any better on a
boat than at home. A reasonable sized small tv (12" or a little
bigger) works fine. We used to get one that was both 12V and 110,
like the one we got for our son who was a truck driver, so he could
watch TV while he was laid over waiting for someplace to open up so he
could pick up or deliver. We have a dual voltage TV/VCR in the aft
cabin that we use with the follow-me and the DirectTV receiver. For
the main saloon, we just have a regular small TV for use when we are
at the dock.

We don't anchor too much, and we don't watch much TV when we are
anchored - we get up with the sun and go to bed when it sets.



Two words....Just awful. So cheap they forgot to put transistors in the
RECEIVER! The picture's decent if you're close enough to the station you
can feel the RF heating your skin from the antennas...(c;

Oh, another thing to look at....

If the screen looks WHITE when the TV is off....YOU CAN'T SEE IT IF THERE
IS ANY ambient light at all! Those are the worst!

Doesn't matter these days. Analog TV in the States will go dark in a
couple of years and only DTV will be broadcast so the stations can hit you
with user fees to watch something besides the spam....

Wanna see football? Call 1-800-FEED US MONEY and we'll turn the football
game on on your ADDRESSABLE HDTV set by remote control right in the
broadcast data stream.

(You haven't heard them say anything about that, have you?)

Pay TV comes to over-the-air broadcasting....DTV, HDTV, Digital
Radio...soon.



grandma Rosalie

Rosalie B. wrote:
"Thomas Wentworth" wrote:


Larry,,,, I guess I will leave the tv at home. Who needs it anyway. A
good book, some music [cd's], and a warm ocean breeze.


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"Larry" wrote in message
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"Thomas Wentworth" wrote in
news:qXyEf.2113$8U2.457@trndny06:


How do the portable little tv's work on a boat. The ones that have
the very small screen.


The little ones with the very small screen don't work any better on a
boat than at home. A reasonable sized small tv (12" or a little
bigger) works fine. We used to get one that was both 12V and 110,
like the one we got for our son who was a truck driver, so he could
watch TV while he was laid over waiting for someplace to open up so he
could pick up or deliver. We have a dual voltage TV/VCR in the aft
cabin that we use with the follow-me and the DirectTV receiver. For
the main saloon, we just have a regular small TV for use when we are
at the dock.

We don't anchor too much, and we don't watch much TV when we are
anchored - we get up with the sun and go to bed when it sets.


grandma Rosalie
We use one of those little folding DVD Video players like they put in
cars. It's 12v with a battery of its own. It works a charm. When we
are sailing it gets put away in a drawer. I suppose a laptop would work
fine too. (But it is bigger)

Gaz

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 22:11:12 -0500, Larry wrote:

Pay TV comes to over-the-air broadcasting....DTV, HDTV, Digital
Radio...soon.

Can't happen too soon for me, if people have to pay they will be MUCH
more selective, and will not tolerate 10 commercials per hour.