7" LCT telly which won't work after next year only £61

Dustangle

Boffer is selling a Roadstar 7" telly for only £61 inc P&P.

The only problem is that it doesn't seem to have a Freeview tuner - the website offering it doesn't tell you this, of course - so depending on where you are, it will be of next to no use after a year or so. That means you're effectively renting it for £1 a week. This is terrible value in my opinion. But, it's a "bargain," and you can only grabbit for the next few hours, so there you are.

It does have a clock and "built in game" right enough. That might be worth the money.

Sixty one pounds.

greyster

actually it will work quite a while longer, depending on what area you live in.

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Dustangle

Still overpriced. Worth £20 at most.

jim73bad

worth £20 thats for sure

ged1980

Dustangle wrote: »

Boffer is selling a Roadstar 7" telly for only £61 inc P&P.

The only problem is that it doesn't seem to have a Freeview tuner - the website offering it doesn't tell you this, of course - so depending on where you are, it will be of next to no use after a year or so. That means you're effectively renting it for £1 a week. This is terrible value in my opinion. But, it's a "bargain," and you can only grabbit for the next few hours, so there you are.

It does have a clock and "built in game" right enough. That might be worth the money.

Sixty one pounds.

To me if they dont say it means it dosent have it ? so they are not fibbing

still a good 4-5 years left before digital ( depends were you live) so lets slate all who still sell tvs what dont have freeview


ps: like 60% of uk you can use a freeview box

oilit

ged1980 wrote: »

ps: like 60% of uk you can use a freeview box

How do you take a freeview box with you to use with this portable lcd tv ???

$$$_12

AV input makes it useful for more than just TV. But agreed it's not cheap.

frisbee

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AV input makes it useful for more than just TV. But agreed it's not cheap.

Could somebody point me in the right direction to get one of these which is good value for money, for my lonely little trucker.

deanos

frisbee wrote: »

Could somebody point me in the right direction to get one of these which is good value for money, for my lonely little trucker.

I got my dads freeview portable from the site linked below he uses it in his truck , it was £55 delivered for 7" , prices and stock change regually so keep checking

http://www.unbeatablegadgets.co.uk/shop/

There is a 9" at the moment

http://www.unbeatablegadgets.co.uk/shop/product_info.php?cPath=36_48&products_id=197

Dustangle

Well, it's advertised as a portable TV.

People should be able to expect a portable TV to work as a telly all over the country, presumably taking it with them in the car or whatever.

If I take it in my car to the Borders now it won't work as a telly. It won't work here next year. The fact that it might work in Norn Iron or That London for a couple of years longer is of little interest to me.

I have no interest in using it as a monitor or something, just as a telly to watch telly programmes. It is not even as if you could get a portable freeview adapter to stick on it and watch freeview in the car, is it? And even if you could, it defeats the whole point.

Boffer say nothing about this so unless people read a warning in a forum like this they would be ****ed. This isn't the USA where they love caveat emptor. It's not even a super bargain - as others have said, there are cheaper freeview portable tellies on sale.

We're coming up to Christmas. I can imagine people thinking - Ooh, Christmas is coming up, that would be perfect for young Johnny" - little knowing the unhappiness it will bring when opened on Christmas Day. Do Boffer want that to happen? Because that's what they're going to get. Hopefully by posting I have helped stop at least a few ruined Christmasses. Anyone with any imagination can foresee what might happen. I'm in tears just thinking about it.

Boffer should cut the price to £20 and explain what the problem is. They didn't and they, along with others advertising soon-to-be obsolete portable tellies should be honest about what is happening.

Dustangle

Apparently, it doesn't work very well either.

Poor show

With the external aerial, the pictures need rectifying from the initial tune-in: sadly, there's not much you can do to improve the picture. Watching the news on BBC1, blacks are a grey mush; colours are too bright and flicker; the brightness adjustments aren't sensitive enough; there's motion smearing in abundance; skin tones look lurid - unfortunately, the list goes on.

Things get even worse when you use the TV's telescopic aerial: pictures deteriorate even more, signals fluctuate and the picture breaks up. Couple this with its speakers' sibilant and tinny sound, and you've a disappointing viewing experience on your hands.

Which makes us scratch our heads at the point of cheaper portable TVs. If it's unable to deliver decent pictures using an external aerial, then what is the point of a TV that's targeted for in-car entertainment that produces nearly unwatchable pictures on the move? The Roadstar doesn't achieve its most basic goal, and in doing so, doesn't even get off the starting blocks.