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This has been a great help.  We have been talking about getting a new TV.  My OH was looking at the 19" HD Ready with built in digital for £165.00. (Technica) from Tesco, and now wth all these reviews I think he's made his mind up. 

We recently bought a new tv for the van. Having seen the low price of Tesco / Argos tv's we went for a Tecos's Technica 19". A week later it went back to Tesco's for a full refund. Very slow response time, poor digital tuner, and faulty pixels were the main problems Oh yes, and the sound was rubbish!

Went and bought a Samsung 19" 720P HD Freeview TV and its brilliant. Samsung make fantastic LCD TV's, we have a 40" Samsung in our lounge.

This is the one we bought:

http://www.1staudiovisual.co.uk/catalog/samsung-le19b450c-inch-p-6702.html?affiliate=81b7e703ad8279ab8ccb5fb586f62a62&lcd-plasma-tv-shop=276

But we only paid £180 from a local TV / HiFi specialist.

Chaz

I am going to have to stop coming on here and reading all these threads ..... It's costing me a flaming fortune lol

Just bought a 15.4 TV from tesco costing £99. It has a 12V power lead which I didn't expect. Looking forward to seeing if it is worth the money. The DVD version was sold out and cost £129. We have a dvd player we can use anyway so not bothered about that.

I have just got this one, cheaper than the tesco equivalent and has good sound. Works great.

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/19%22+Arianet+Value+HD+Ready+Widescreen+LCDTV+with+Freeview+%26+Integrated+DVD+Player?productId=35297

Hi Cariad

The TV you purchased from Tesco, you say it has a 12v lead, does this mean it has a separate lead or has it just got a normal 3 pin uk plug and you could convert the lead to to run off 12v.

We are looking for a new TV but mostly stay at sites with no hook up, we currently have a 12v tv but it one of the old fat square types.

Janette

Quote: Originally posted by mre15 on 30/4/2009

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I have just got this one, cheaper than the tesco equivalent and has good sound. Works great.

http://www.aria.co.uk/SuperSpecials/Other+products/19%22+Arianet+Value+HD+Ready+Widescreen+LCDTV+with+Freeview+%26+Integrated+DVD+Player?productId=35297

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Resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels means its a 16:10 screen therefore its made as "technically" a monitor not a TV. Some people won't notice the difference, but picture distortion and clarity are efffected due to the screen differences.

A True widescreen TV is 16:9, anything else is a compimise.

 I have a flat screen tv bought about a year ago which I usually use just for the caravan and on mains volltage but its transformer cuts the input to 12 volts. I would like to use it when we are not on hook up but am reluctant to try it without a voltage stabiliser so the input is a steady 12 v as coming straight off the leasure battery generally is more like 14 volt and am frightened it would damage the TV .  Anyone know where to get a stabiliser without costing a fortune or can tell me if I could use the tv  without a stabiliser  Brian T

Quote: Originally posted by Janette Rix on 30/4/2009

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Hi Cariad

The TV you purchased from Tesco, you say it has a 12v lead, does this mean it has a separate lead or has it just got a normal 3 pin uk plug and you could convert the lead to to run off 12v.

We are looking for a new TV but mostly stay at sites with no hook up, we currently have a 12v tv but it one of the old fat square types.

Janette

 

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Hi Janet

It has an external transformer with a standard 3 pin plug which converts electric to 12v that plugs into tv. The standard 12v caravan lead will plug straight into the tv as we have done and are watching it now.

Hope this helps.

Quote: Originally posted by Brian T on 02/5/2009

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 I have a flat screen tv bought about a year ago which I usually use just for the caravan and on mains volltage but its transformer cuts the input to 12 volts. I would like to use it when we are not on hook up but am reluctant to try it without a voltage stabiliser so the input is a steady 12 v as coming straight off the leasure battery generally is more like 14 volt and am frightened it would damage the TV .  Anyone know where to get a stabiliser without costing a fortune or can tell me if I could use the tv  without a stabiliser  Brian T

 

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 Thanks.      I will get a lead with the suitable input jack plug and link in to my 12v out put   Brian T