22" Flat Screen

[Trav88]

Travelling with kids is great, until you've been driving for 4+ hours, that's why we always have a film prepared. We used to have those little screens on the back of the headrests, when they broke we started to balance a laptop between the two arm rests, now looking into the option of attaching a 22" flat screen TV on the back of one of the headrests and plugging it in the convertor.

Is it bit overkill? Will the convertor be powerful enough to run a TV?

 

[johnyboy]

You can get 12V LED screens too

 

[MattBW]

I have a Linsar 12v 16" tv wth built in DVD player, think I payed 90quid for it and it runs from mains or 12v.

 

[CLARA]

I've been thinking about buying a tv for a while now (maybe with built in DVD player, like above). Any recommendations?, and what aerial would be good, without permanent fixings?

 

[stevieb]

Travelling with kids is great, until you've been driving for 4+ hours, that's why we always have a film prepared. We used to have those little screens on the back of the headrests, when they broke we started to balance a laptop between the two arm rests, now looking into the option of attaching a 22" flat screen TV on the back of one of the headrests and plugging it in the convertor.

Is it bit overkill? Will the convertor be powerful enough to run a TV?

Hello

We have an Avtec 16" TV with built in DVD works great off 12v dc with it's own aerial. On site we spin the passenger seat around & hang it via the headrest using the carrying strap that came with the protective carry case.

 

[andyinluton]

we use an EYETV its a rechargeable dongle about 1 inch square that works as a digital tuner on iPhones/ipads comes with a couple of aerials the 4 inch magnetic one usually gets about 145 channels irrespective of which way the aerial is pointing.
You can pause rewind & record programmes as well. As one of the kids invariably has an iPad with them for us it works as a tv substitute.

 

[cozmo1589]

We just take our laptop and use that for dvds plus we got a dongle from maplins that came complete with a dvt aerial and remote
so can watch all digital TV on it too, works a treat.

Sent from my D6603 using Tapatalk

 

[ChocolateEclair]

We have a 'Tivizen Nano' and watch TV on either a laptop or 12 inch tablet with the free app.

The unit is a small credit card sized receiver with aerial and rechargeable battery. It transmits the signal over wi-fi to the tablet or laptop. As it's completely wire free you can place it anywhere high up where the signal will be stronger. http://www.tivizen.com/wifi-dongle.html

I have to say I am mightily impressed with it - we have been all over the south of England and always had a decent picture. It picks up freeview along with the EPG etc. and if you really want to you can pause and record etc.

The battery lasts about 3 hours before needing a recharge.

 

[rich-s]

Another vote for EyeTV W. It amazes me how it always picks up loads of channels. The tiny stick aerial is magnetic so i hang it upside down from one of the eyelets above the roof bed.