Caravan TV advice.

If you plan to use your van on EHU, any telly of your choice will do. If you will not be on EHU, ensure whatever you choose will work from 12v and many 'ordinary' sets do this via a transformer. Avtex are expensive and, in my personal opinion, overrated.

Are you sure a 22" set will fit? It's bigger than anything we ever used in a caravan or MH. Also, consider where it will travel.

Btw, Phil, you can choose your own user name by going to My Profile at the head of the page.

Thanks for your guidance Tinwheeler.
The Avtex models are expensive and now appears not to be good value.
Phil.

Avtex are not cheap but we have been very pleased with the two we have. The first a 19 inch came with our Bailey caravan when bought new and worked well for the 5 years we had the caravan. It is now in use in the house. That just had a freeview (HD) tuner and DVD, which we used a lot. When we switched to a MH we bought a small 16 inch Avtex which fitted onto a bracket on the wall. This had freeview (HD) and satellite tuners as well as a DVD, which again has been heavily used. Picture quality is first class and viewable from quite acute  angles. Sound is reasonable as speakers are in the back and is actually better from the one in the MH as the sound reflects of the wall behind, where as in the caravan there was free space. If we were buying again it would definitely be an Avtex. If you are going off grid they also have very low power consumptions as TV’s go. Ours is plugged into the 12 volt even when on EHU saves messing about with the power block which is difficult to site in the MH.

Thanks SteveL for your detailed reply.

The one I was looking at is the :

Avtex 19.5 Inch TV Triple Tuner Pro Series 9 (L199DRS-PRO)

Phil.

 

Thanks SteveL for your detailed reply.

The model I was looking at is the:

Avtex 19.5 Inch TV Triple Tuner Pro Series 9 (L199DRS-PRO)

Phil.

While TW is right you can use any old 240v TV if you do not intend to go off grid, be aware that they are unlikely to be built to withstand the rigours of mobile travel.  12v TVs like the Avtex are designed for travel and are more robustly built. You pays your money and makes your choice.

peedee

PS make sure it is an HD TV, SD is being phased out.

Thanks peedee

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As has been mentioned what you buy and what price point will depend on your style of camping. If you will always be on 230V EHU you could buy any of the size you require. Having said that many of the mainstream manufacturers no longer make small televisions so you choice might not be that great. If you intend camping off grid, relying on 12V supply you have a more limited range available to you. There are specialist brands in the leisure market like Avtex, Cello and Vision Plus. The trouble is that unless you have had a direct comparison between the brands if is difficult to make a judgement. For some they just want to watch a little bit TV whilst away where quality might not be important whilst others might watch a lot of TV where the quality becomes more important. 

For the last six or so years we have had an Avtex TV in our motorhomes. It was chosen because of its quality and flexibility, ours also has a built in satellite receiver which was useful on our last motorhome which had a roof mounted dish. The picture quality is excellent. We do occasionally play a CD using the inbuilt player. It's a bit fiddly but it works fine.

David

We've been happy with our Avtex tvs, they're quite robust and our present one is wall mounted. I think if you're away a lot and you like to watch TV and use satellite etc it's good to get the best you can afford. We like the picture and sound quality on ours and occasionally use a dvd. Ours is just for basic use.  Bear in mind that laptops and phones etc can also provide good TV coverage so there are various options.