LCD TFT Television

Post by **speleobod** » 09 Apr 2006, 13:25

got the chance to have one of these at the right price,....which seems too cheap!!!

Advertised as LCD TFT . Is this the cheap end of LCD screen technology or worth 'looking' at?

Sorry not a T25 question but I know the range of intelligence in the club so I thought I'd ask.

Post by **Cate** » 09 Apr 2006, 13:30

Depends what the right price is, they are excellent for in the van as they dont take up so much room as an ordinary tv, and you can get them 12v too.

Post by **speleobod** » 09 Apr 2006, 13:35

A 12 inch 240/12v for £80.00 all in. Still not sure what TFT means though.

Post by **Cate** » 09 Apr 2006, 13:37

Buy it now!

Post by **airhead** » 09 Apr 2006, 13:46

TFT is the standard for all LCD TVs. It means Thin Film Transistor. Its basically the new form of LCD TV which has a much broader viewing angle, handles movement a lot better and has a much higher quality. So its good.

Post by **shepster** » 09 Apr 2006, 14:47

As Cate says 'buy it' i paid £200 for my 15" one last year so that sounds like a real bargain, i never use it as a tv though as it's quite simple to link it up to a dvd player. I've mounted mine on the ceiling between the seats just behind the drivers head so the kiddies can watc films on the move.I got the idea from 'beach bum' who posts on here, if your going to bustypes come and have a nosey.

Post by **Beach Bum** » 09 Apr 2006, 18:44

Just make sure it is TV/Monitor and not just a Monitor. If you do buy it and put it in the van if you are wiring it to a leisure battery as I do beware when it is switched off it could still drain your battery. I had a problem with this and cured it by installing an inline switch.

Post by **Horza** » 09 Apr 2006, 19:56

Thin Film Transistor, ah it all makes sense now. I have a TFT monitor on the PC but it's a Sony Triniton CRT one and it stands for something else in this case. I always wondered about the TFT bit in LCDs.

Post by **speleobod** » 09 Apr 2006, 20:52

Thank you folks its now mine all mine. will take a spare battery to run it, so when its dead its dead and we can read books or talk or play backgammon or something.

Any recommendations for an aeriel with booster on board???

Post by **lhd** » 09 Apr 2006, 23:22

CRT= cathode ray tube, as in old deep style tv's...
lhd......................

Post by **airhead** » 09 Apr 2006, 23:24

Horza, have a look at http://www.howstuffworks.com. It explains it all there. Hang onto the sony trinitron though. Theyre great. Hand picked phosphors. Thats what trinitron means. Now sure how they hand pick a phosphor but theyre better quality. I work in a sony centre by the way. Thats how I know.

Speleobod, the one for all aeriels with the booster in them are usually pretty good and theyre not at all expensive.

Post by **ghost123uk** » 10 Apr 2006, 09:09

Some of us use laptop computers at home and out and about (TFT by the way

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I have just bought a "FreeView" digital TV unit for mine.
It cost £40 and gives me about 30 TV channels (plus 20 Radio channels).

Plus a little device that sends the sound from the laptop to the main camper sound system.

And I can watch DVD's on it, or play 1000's of MP3's from it.

Will work for days on an adapter from the lesiure battery

Great for those rainy VW shows !!

Post by **airhead** » 10 Apr 2006, 09:26

I was thinking of doing the same thing myself. Im actually using a nice little laptop I got for €200 at the moment. If I put a bigger hard drive and more ram in it it would do the job nicely! Either that or I have a desktop PC I could use and get a monitor for it. Doesnt need upgrading but the monitor would have to be a flat screen.

Post by **ghost123uk** » 10 Apr 2006, 10:55

@ airhead

Do you mean a PC in the van !! ?

The only requirment I found that was pretty essential with the Frewview card for the laptop is USB 2 capability. Tho if you haven't got that, you can get a PCMCIA to USB 2 conterter card - thats what I did.

Post by **airhead** » 10 Apr 2006, 14:21

Well it wouldnt be a first! Theres a guy in type 2 ireland who has one in his bay. Along with a wireless keyboard / mouse and a flat panel monitor it works out well and the PC itself can be hidden away.