Portable digital TV...

Jolanta_Nowak

... in the same sense that there are millions of 14" analogue sets happily installed in kitchens and bedrooms up and down the country, each working equally happily off its own aerial and picking up the terrestrial analogue broadcasts...

...ain't no such thing, right?

philnicandamy

nope.....although a little on the pricey side yet...

14" portable digital tv £79.99

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=217717&source=2001&doy=11m11

Jolanta_Nowak

So where is it? That's some hand-held junk.

Charlton_King

Yeah, it's one of the digital 'industry's worst kept secrets - all those millions of 2nd and 3rd analogue sets will require ultra-expensive replacement/upgrading, usually requiring cable spaghetti running throughout the house. And all because, surprise surprise, there's no such thing as a good quality, indoor digital antenna.

The government knows it and is keeping stumm... but they know the consumer outcry will hit them in a couple of years time and are hoping the technology will catch up with the aspirations by then.

Just one more delight from the people who are bringing you the analogue switch-off fiasco.

superscaper

Charlton_King wrote: »

Yeah, it's one of the digital 'industry's worst kept secrets - all those millions of 2nd and 3rd analogue sets will require ultra-expensive replacement/upgrading, usually requiring cable spaghetti running throughout the house. And all because, surprise surprise, there's no such thing as a good quality, indoor digital antenna.

The government knows it and is keeping stumm... but they know the consumer outcry will hit them in a couple of years time and are hoping the technology will catch up with the aspirations by then.

Just one more delight from the people who are bringing you the analogue switch-off fiasco.

You're making an assumption that the switchover means simply switching off the analogue signal. It doesn't, they're transferring all their transmission resources to digital so the signal strength and coverage will be vastly greater than it is now. It's already possible in many areas to receive digital signals with an old indoor aerial (depending on gain).

ormus

also depends where you are?
i can get a digital signal with a coat hanger. the winter hill mast can be seen from my flat roof, extension.

Charlton_King

superscaper wrote: »

You're making an assumption that the switchover means simply switching off the analogue signal. It doesn't, they're transferring all their transmission resources to digital so the signal strength and coverage will be vastly greater than it is now. It's already possible in many areas to receive digital signals with an old indoor aerial (depending on gain).

And it's probable, in many more areas, that you'll get worse reception than with analogue even with an expensively bought and expensively installed high gain, rooftop antenna.

The fact is that the whole thing is an ill-conceived and ill thought-out shambles, thought up by a !!!!less government at the urgings of vested interest crap channel merchants. A case of 'progress' = backwards.

The OP is quite right. You can pick up your current CRT 14" portable with its wire loop aerial, transfer it to a different room, plug it into the mains and bingo. This simply can't be replicated by digital tvs at the moment.

You try typing 'portable tv' into the Comet website and see what comes up...
a couple of 14" analogue models....