Pocket TV

A friend of mine with 4 kids and a husband is finding it very tough because the TV is nearly always on - even if no one is watching it! As such she wants to buy each of her kids a pocket TV so they can watch what they want without everyone else having to suffer.

Does anyone know a good place to grab some good pocket TVs? There must be a bargain out there somewhere! eBay has a few but it would only cause issues if one kid got a better TV than the other. So new is probably the only way. £50 a TV seems fair. I have seen some nice ones from MSI that have a bigger screen and are nice and flat but they are over £100!

Thanks for the help.

 

Bl**dy h*ll!

pocket TVs!!

I think I must be showing my age!

 

They're actually pretty useless unless you're in a very good reception area. Otherwise you still need to plug them into your rooftop aerial. That kinda negates the 'pocket' concept.

 

They are very heavy on batteries too - I had one and if you got 25 mins from a set of batteries you were doing well. How good is that for portability

 

Here's an MSI one
http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=3449&CategoryID=201&SubCategoryID=306
She needs advising that depending where she lives an analogue only one could be useless within a year.

 

how's this for a concept - it's getting warm outside - why doesn't she show them that, or entertain them in other ways..?

 

Just going to say the same thing, why not take the kids out to investigate the garden or something, talk about being ruled by TV..

 

at least they're not on forums every minute.

 

just switched on the box whislt having some food, on one side the ever increasing flashing photography, on the the other Hugh lau*ie trying to pull off an American accent ( I think).

Dear me

 

You've only got 2 channels? You stuck in 1958 or something?

 

The thing is the TV is on nearly all the time. Its one of those families where the TV is on in the background even if no one is watching it! She hates it but her husbands family was always like that and with 4 kids and a dad, even if each of them only watches a bit, it is on a lot between them.

The idea is that if they have to watch on a pocket TV, for one they can be in their own room and not force it on everyone else, but also you don't tend to watch all the time, only when you know there is something on since you can't watch it from across the room.

My brother and I both had one in our rooms plugged in to the room aerial and a wall PSU.

 

Alright, I ended up watching a doc about young womens oversized boobs....wasn't going to go too far into that......

( seemed fine to me but still..)

 

I use a Humax PVR so I do (usually) get more than that.........only usually max 2 worth watching....... IMO of course.

 

It seems that the more TV that is available the lower the quality. I remember actually watching more TV in 1958 just before we got ITV. That was the start of the rot - two channels!!! Now with free view, HD recording , millions of channels on the INternet, not to mention SKY etc, I am watching less and less TV. One good thing though is the Internet channel - sail.tv - 24/7 of sailing programs!

 

agreed

yep. sailings cool

other wise history programs (often superb)/docs +period dramas do it for me.....little else

(except of course re runs of the professionals/sweeney/clint eastwood films.... )

( not that I grew up during the '70s/'80s of course)

 

We have a free view box. I used to get Sky but found I only watched Futurama and Simpsons. I get them via torrent now much cheaper.

Bob, good comeback.

Incidentally the new M&S advert is on tele, is one of those girls from some girlie pop group? I certainly would anyhow.