Postable Digital TV's?

I have a portable analog TV which will be a door stop in 2009. Does any place sell the new digital tv's in a portable form? You know, one that runs on batteries in case your electricity goes out.

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Robert Blass
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Hi, One thing some fancy laptop computers come with TV tuner.

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Tony Hwang

And for others, the USB tuner dongles are

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Pete C.

The "free" converter I have runs on about 8 watts and that is not much load on an inverter. If you could get one with a DC wall wart it would run fine on a battery.

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gfretwell

"free" I didn't know about that. Where did you get it? (looking it up on google right now....")

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AZ Nomad

found a govt. site for $40 coupons and ordered two. We'll see.

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AZ Nomad

My in-law got their coupons from the same site. Their convertors were $9.95 each two weeks ago. FWIW

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Kurt Ullman

On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:11:28 -0500, "Pete C." sayd the following:

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Robert Blass

Laptops run on electricty.

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Stormin Mormon

if the 12v battery tv is under discussion, then a battery powered laptop is pretty much the same thing. if the tv is on a car battery through an inverter, it would be simple to run the laptop off the same source.

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charlie

When did I ever mention owning a laptop?

You guys skipped on to laptops.

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:38:26 -0400, "Stormin Mormon" sayd the following:

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Robert Blass

On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:06:23 -0700, "charlie" sayd the following:

Let me try this again. I am asking about a Portable Digital TV, like the ones sold for analog TV. I never said I wanted it connected to a car and I didn't mention needing it for a laptop, in fact I never even said the word laptop.

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Robert Blass

Something like this?

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If the link doesn't work, search for an Accurian 7" portable handheld TV.

Assuming you're looking for a single-piece item, and not a solution involving laptops or separate digial converters with inverters and extra 12V batteries to carry around. :-)

Josh

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Josh

Haier Hlt71 7" Portable Lcd Tv - HLT71

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Andy

On your charged-up laptop, which will run about as long as alkalines in a battery TV. If you have gas in the car to keep that battery running, you can sit in the car and watch. I've done that a few times, now I just try to sleep through the outage, or if it is several days, find the nearest hotel with power and room.

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aemeijers

Kurt Ullman wrote in news:kurtullman- snipped-for-privacy@70-3-168-216.area.spcsdns.net:

do you mean [FORTY-nine] 49.95? That's what Wal-Mart is selling Magnavox converters for,and with sales tax,it adds up to $13.

If a DTV converter sold for $10,I wouldn't bother with coupons.

the Echostar converter was -supposed- to sell for only $40(essentially free),but hadn't been available when I got my coupons and not for the next

90 days of validity.
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Jim Yanik

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:gc5sf8$d2m$ snipped-for-privacy@registered.motzarella.org:

they run on BATTERIES. and can be charged/ran from a car's cig lighter,OR another 12v source.

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Jim Yanik

I assumed kurt was talking about the price with the coupon applied.

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AZ Nomad

The coupons were for $40 and the amount they actually paid was $9.95. Sorta works out to $49.95 total , but still o$9.95 out of pocket. I guess I coulda made that a little more explicit (g).

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Kurt Ullman

Hmmm, Laptops work on built-in batteries and can be charged while being used via car cigarette lighter plug.

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Tony Hwang

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