Cheap TV

viatorem
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edited February 2018 in Tips for making Caravanning & Touring Cheaper #1

Aldi have a 24" full hd  100-240v/ac 12v/dc tv/dvd on offer £134.99, I purchased one yesterday. Picture is good as is viewing angle, sound a bit weak but not too bad compared to others I have checked out in this price bracket. DVD picture also good and no problem with DVD sound as reported on older 22" model.

It comes with a 12 v car type lead and has separate connections for mains and 12v so no separate mains adaptor box. The 12v lead does not have an obvious buck/boost adaptor like Cello brand 12v TV's. Maybe this circuit is inside the set? I will be away in a week or so and will test 12v performance ie current and minimum operating voltage. Very light (2.6Kg)compared to my old set so good for tight load margins.

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  • ABM
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    edited February 2018 #2

    With  a  spec  like  that  I  have  to  ask  does it improve the  rubbish  programmes  too  undecided  ??

  • viatorem
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    edited February 2018 #3

     The picture can be enhanced by the user but alas, not the content!

  • jennyc
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    edited March 2018 #4

    So tonight we have, on Freeview;

    Masterchef, Civilisations, The brain, the science of bubbles (Helen Cerzski), QI - the choice goes on: “Rubbish”? What sort of viewing isn't “rubbish” in your opinion?

  • EasyT
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    edited March 2018 #5

    Certainly very little on TV that I would have patience for and is why I don't generally watch it

  • jennyc
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    edited March 2018 #6

    Well EasyT, here’s an example of something that you haven’t the patience to learn, from last night’s television.

    The surface of a bubble carries alien materials in its skin. Air bubbles with iron oxide and cancer treating drugs, can be injected into a vein upstream of an internal tumour. Their travel is easy to trace through the iron, which is then accumulated at the target with externally placed magnets. Having accumulated at their desired destination, the bubbles are broken down through ultrasound, depositing the drugs on site. The ultrasound also causes parts of the bubble to enter microscopic gaps, assisting in deep tissue penetration.

    I’m rather glad to say that I had the patience to spend an hour being well educated in bubble physics. Masterchef was informative too.

  • Merve
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    edited March 2018 #7

    We take our Avtex but only for DVDs. Some of the programmes now are appalling- they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel- in fact they are well into the wood! I was reading on the web that they- (whoever ‘they’ are) - were sending 4 married couples whose marriages were not ,at present, in a healthy state , to some God forsaken spot in an eastern country together with a therapist and a life coach no less so that these idiots could swop partners to try to improve their marriages!! Is it me??? Have I missed something??? Absolutely appalling !  I don’t care how cheap the tele is, it can’t be as cheap as that! 

  • cyberyacht
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    edited March 2018 #8

    Would only exacerbate any tensions, I would have thought. As Arthur Clough said " Adultery do not commit. Advantage rarely comes of it".

  • jennyc
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    edited March 2018 #9

    Does your TV have a channel changer?

  • richardandros
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    edited March 2018 #10

    I bought one of these a couple of years ago tested it on a site we use regularly and where I had previously had perfect TV reception with a small (mains only) set we brought from home. Frustratingly, it kept dropping the signal even though everything else (aerial etc) was as before.  Also tested it in a friend's caravan who was staying on the same site - with the same result.  No amount of fiddling about and re-tuning would solve the problem - so I took it back and bit the bullet and bought an Avtex which has performed faultlessly ever since.  Might have been a one-off but I have come to the conclusion that there may be a reason why the Avtex is so much more expensive.

  • Milothedog
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    edited March 2018 #11

    I started out buying a 20" Goodmans  for the caravan, now replaced by a  18.5" Vision-Plus costing twice as much, There is just no comparison "you get what you pay for "

  • dougA
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    edited March 2018 #12

    I also started with a cheaper make tv but the viewing angle was rubbish.  Unless you were sitting At the same height as the tv you couldn’t see it properly. Picture would appear to look very dark.

    Now bought the Avtex and you can view from any angle, great picture and picks up tv signal no probs. It also has a DVD player and an added bonus at the press of a button when on 12v it shows on screen the leisure battery level.

  • Graymee
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    edited March 2018 #13

    Ours arrived today. We had a 230V TV/DVD player before but the DVD player was intermittent so this is a replacement. Sound is OK, TV is good especially on HD, DVD is also good. A lot lighter than the old one.

  • norab
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    edited March 2018 #14

    We have 22inch Tesco tv with built in dvd . We always take a few movies with us . 

  • IanTG
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    edited March 2018 #15

    We bought an Aldi one last time they stocked it. Had to return it as sound quality on DVD was very poor, although TV was ok. Now got Avtex.

  • brue
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    edited March 2018 #16

    We went back to an Avtex after a cheaper TV just didn't produce good sound or viewing.

  • richardandros
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    edited March 2018 #17

    (Not sure if this should be a new thread - but here goes....)

    As per my previous post, I am delighted with our Avtex TV, rather than the Aldi one I tried.  However, there is one niggling aspect - common to all flat screen TVs - in that the sound inevitably comes out of the back.  So - if standing behind it, the sound can be deafening just to produce the correct volume in front.  Has anyone had any success with a small sound bar to improve the sound quality / volume?

  • viatorem
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    edited April 2018 #18

    Having now tried the Aldi TV on 3 sites, I have found both the broadcast reception and the The DVD player to function well on mains and 12v.

    Sound quality is a little disappointing compared to larger TVs granted. There is no problem with audio playback of DVD.

    Picture quality and viewing angle on 1080p is perfectly acceptable as is the 3yr warranty.

    They are now discounted to £119.99. cheaper than the 21.5" version now on their camping and caravan offers! 

    I  really couldn't justify £370-£449 on an Avtex 24", thats £20 more than I paid for my 50" 4K home TV. After all this thread is on how to make things cheaper. 

     

     

     

  • viatorem
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    edited May 2018 #19

    I see our branch of Aldi have now dropped the price to £99.99

    wish I'd waited :(

    Anyway had a good look at the picture quality vs Avtex and Vision plus in our local dealers, very little in it regarding brightness and resolution.

  • Milothedog
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    edited May 2018 #20

    It's the viewing angle that is the issue with the cheap TV. 

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