Morrison's TV's

[Kontiki]

As someone said just because it has a transformer with a 12 volt input it doesn't mean you can run it direct off your battery. I use an amperor voltage stabiliser to give me a regulated 12 volts, sometimes my battery can be over 14 volts. A TV made for running in a caravan/motorhome probably has some type of voltage stabiliser built in. For this they charge far too much, I made an adapter for my amperor that converts the plug at the end into a triple cigarette socket block.

That said many people get away with running them direct from the 12 volts with no problems.

 

[Byronic]

Why not use your Laptop as a TV, recorder, DVD player, Media player


Lorry :drive:

Thats what I do for 5 winter months in Southern Med. However when I only want the TV on I revert to the standalone flat panel because of its 20Watt power useage. The computer uses up to 90Watts due to start up of Media Centre etc even though all I want on is the TV facility.

 

[peanut]

The computer uses up to 90Watts due to start up of Media Centre etc even though all I want on is the TV facility.

thats why Mrs P and I use the latest HP Mini 110 3800 netbooks for travelling. Ours have a 10 hour battery which is perfect for streaming BBC I Player tv programmes or running DVD's through our TV . They can also be used stand alone of course and the 10" screens are adequate for viewing at normal netbook distance. On charge they consume 40w

The best use though is watching movies, surfing the net or listening to music with an earpiece or headphones when one of us can't sleep and we don't want to disturb our partner
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[Byronic]

peanut....... I've have/take a netbook as well. I suspect it consumes a bit more than 15Watts, so might as well use the flat panel TV. I use the netbook to connect to unsecured wifi networks or hotspots MacDonalds etc. overseas.
Its a fairly cheap Advent,(the Samsung was considered a better machine) but I bought it because it has an unlocked built in dongle (sim card reader), very useful. I'm using it at the moment in the car using "free" o2UK access.
In 3 years it's been perfect on XP Home., can't say the same for the £1200 laptop.
Shame BBC iPlayer isn't available overseas... maybe one day?
Anyway this is all another thread really.

 

[Bigpeetee]

If you use a proxy server, you can watch BBC iplayer.

One example is: BBC iPlayer Abroad

 

[Byronic]

Somebody did suggest using Proxy Server last winter season overseas but when using wifi I would always be in a place just to read and send emails etc not the situation to watch/ download TV,and more often than not connection speed was slow.
I should of course have written in my previous post "sim card modem" not sim card reader.