Caravan TV Recommendations

Robert & Karen. It's a bit like buying a car or caravan. Find one you like, at a suitable price, and go for it. I think they're all pretty good. Happy touring.

Roger B....

Hi Robert and Karen
Oct 2009 brought a Grundgig flat screen 12 volt HD Digital TV with a built in DVD 19in for $500 12 months round Aussie has worked a treat .IMHO dishes are cumbersome to A. carry and B set up if you cant get TV so be it listen to the ABC radio or talk to the neighbours .
Regards

G'day Robert & Karen - Get a 12 volt one! (obvious reasons why)
http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/category/12-volt-tv/
22" LCD $249 HD with built in DVD and takes USB & SD cards for your pics too!
We have a Kogan and the picture quality is very good.
Cheers Nigel

Hi
Another vote for Kogan, we have 3 in our family.
Only problem we have had, is with one of the 240v power packs, after about 5 mths, which was replaced quickly, without any problems.
Cheers
Neil

Hi. Kogan have a pretty good name on the Caravan Forum as well. Bob.

Another vote for Kogan, most of the 12 volt models come with a fag skt power cord, very good delivery times from their website too.
Make sure you don't get too big, easy to do in a van or motorhome as you don't sit that far away from them. Nothing worse than having to swivel the eyes or head to see all of the picture.
We find our19" with PVR and DVD player to be very good when tuning and receiving a picture.

Yes another A1 vote for Kogan. Very, very happy with ours and been on some rough traks too!

Nick

Robert & Karen - I bought a 20" Grundig LED 240/12 with DVD slot from Harvey Norman last month for $340. Haven't used it much yet, but it has a very good picture. I have it mounted on a 'sphere' TV arm. The beauty of the 'sphere' is that it has a V notch mounting that allows you to lift the telly off to travel on the bed and then just drop it back on its V notch mount when ready to watch. It's a very good, robust arm, but a bit pricy at $160. I've had the same Grundig in an LCD for 3 or 4 years and its done lots of miles and survived the corrugations etc. I just got tired of moving it from the house to the van etc so bought another.

Enjoy your travels and hope you keep us posted on events.

Cheers ........................ Kevin.

Our van maker recommended a TCL brand TV - digital and analogue (crazy, but still used outback - just the other day at Camooweal we needed it to watch the news) - plus DVD inbuilt and the usual direct inputs. Teemed with an amplified Wineguard antenna, the whole setup works really well - no issues with it at all (other than the handbook, which took me quite a while to make sense of .... but that could be me :-o).

Hi There :-) another vote for the kogan , we have 2 , one for outside and one for inside

Thanks everyone for sharing your experiences and recommendations.

I am a Hi-Fi fanatic myself and hence the hesitation in buying anything.
I do have to remind myself that is a TV for the caravan and needs 12v power and ideally (space wise) DVD built-in. None of these make for a high end visual or hi-fi experience.

Unless something else pops up It wil be probably be between the 22" Kogan or Grundig.
I might just toss a coin.
And while caravanning I'll be looking forward to going home and watching my 50"'er and listening to Neil Young on my Hi-Fi system.

Thanks again


Robert & Karen

Hi Robert and Karen

After all that good advice is will say - the best one is your windows. With so much to see when touring, and the evening to think about it all and where you will go the next day, television seems a rude intrusion.

We are somewhat amused to get to a lovely location, pull out our chairs to sit outside and enjoy the surroundings, and the others are pulling in, adjusting their satellite dishes, and shutting themselves inside in front of a television like they would do in a boring city street. We put in a television into our caravan and never use it; only once in Alice Springs in 2008 we were doing maintenance and the wind outside was just too cold so we watched a couple of nature DVDs which my husband likes to watch (well i half watched them as i was on the internet). On our big 2009 trip we got so used to not having doom and gloom every evening that since we came home, we have only watched the news twice - when brother in law came to stay. Travel is so much more fun.

Motherhen

We had one that came with the caravan. After four months we realised that we'd only gone to use it once ... on a day we couldn't get any reception. So we left it behind at my mum's house.

So, consider that you may not even use it if you have it.

We have a rather large laptop, and bought a adaptor and program and now plug the TV arial into the computer to watch TV if we must. This has a few advantages:
1. Runs on 12V or 240V
2. Lighter, and normally carry a computer anyway
3. Use it for a DVD player, HD player, or for music (have Itunes on it)
4. Can also use it for a computer if required!