But it's all down to what you want to pay and what you want to watch. Call me old fashioned but I'm considering working away from home and the Samsung 55" on Melectronics appeals. Add a NAS to it and it would do everything I could ever want
But if I went camping, I'd take my laptop or a tablet.
Even if you had cellular on your tablet and mobile dongle for a lappy, streaming TV programs would be costly, difficult and probably nie on impossible outside of CH, over two months ..... as in the OP's requirements.
it appealed to me too at first when i was blinded by the new shininess of smart tv, but i think
the smart aspects can put your tv at risk for viruses, the technology is in its infancy,
as soon as a new samsung model comes out the software won't be updated?
would you trust a tv company to do your it especially since it might be connected to a work laptop?
, i may have got the wrong end of the stick because i am no tv expert though...
anyway, i tried camping au sauvage, which is why i now want to take a tv camping
Isn't the original terrestrial TV dead anyway?
You'd need a sat-dish or some sort of DVB-T antenna, I assume.
Don't camping-grounds have high-speed Gbit-Backbones these days, so that people can surf youtube (or youporn...) the whole day like at home?
;-)
I thought, one point of going camping was to be offline for a while, reading a book, sitting outside, pondering about life, generally "slowing down" ;-)
Or going for a hike/bike-tour.
OP: just get a laptop (and a DVD-drive - a laptop will be far more versatile than a TV in the end) and some books. Read a local newspaper and talk to the other people on the camping-ground.
Because talking is where language-learning really happens anyway...
Books can be read outside (when it's warm enough - TVs and laptops (and tablets) are mostly useless outside in the sun.
Believe me, I've been connectionless on vacation before and it worked. And I have the HDMI adapter and cable with me most of the time
For live streaming using a tablet, cellular would be required and a lappy would need mobile internet dongle. For both, Zattoo or Swisscom TV Air (or any other online provider), could be used if the user had an unlimited MB contract.
Haven't used any of them though - and availability of DVB-T channels varies according to the country and region you are.
AFAIK, in Switzerland it's pretty much SF only.
https://www.broadcast.ch/data_program_dvbt.aspx
Great selection ;-)
I see from Medion.de website that the have a new baby TV - same size - but with an integrated DVD player, for €159,95
http://www.medion.com/de/shop/fernse...TV&wt_cc1=2_14
So, my best guess is that the previous (non-DVD) model has been picked up in bulk, cheaply by Aldi, to knock out cheap to Joe Public.
[they also seem to do this with Canon printers/multi-functions]
Not a bad buy for the money for home use, but it needs to have ports - HDMI and USB - to be useful.
For caravanning you would need to find a voltage inverter (steps up 12v to 240v), but this would add to your costs.
It will probably fit in to the caravan, but if not, I'm willing to help remove some wall etc etc.
You'll find the extra size and sharpness a necessity when camping and viewing foreign TV, there's nothing worse than not understanding a show and having it look and sound awful.
PM me.
the medion one, which is most likely what this aldi tv is, according to the specs it does have an hdmi slot, the aldi one i think has a dvd player too (its called the mediawotsit in the aldi spec)
if the sound is tinny (which it seems small TVs can suffer from) this can be corrected by adding pc speakers according to on line forums (extra cost of course and another thing to dust )
if the pic is bad (which isn't a common complaint about medion, in fact the opposite) you are stuffed, i don't think there is a way to correct this.
if it had wifi, now this would be one less cable but wifi according to online guides seems to require more equipment (even with the smart tv?)
if you want to use it in a caravan, i think you have to check its mountable on a bracket not all TVs are.
i think as a caravan, kids, small room, spare room tv, spare tv, it could be very good
on the minus side its another item to dust!
I think i'm going to go with zattoo which i will install this morning (though no subtitles, wah, according to the lit, will ask and see if its in the pipeline) and report back.
I also don't think you'll have a problem with the pic - it has full HD resolution, whereas other brand small TVs seem to have lower resolution.
If you're going to use Zattoo, you should seriously consider a Chromecast for 50 chufs from Digitec ..... providing the TV does indeed have an HDMI port and that you have a home wifi network, and tablet or smartphone with which to operate it.
Much easier than connecting up a laptop.
On a smallish TV, you may get away with Zattoo free, non HiQ, but you may also benefit from their paid sub ..... try for 3mths. for about 30; a year is only 85.
Supposedly better picture quality (although I can't confirm) and no ads.
pluses
very easy to sign up,
the free chanels include the main bbc (am a little scared that i will now gorge myself on bbc programming one of the reasons i dont have iplayer envy),
it has the 3sat with the more educational type programming
i put it on my old 2006 mbp, (snowleopard) and run it on firefox 30 (not too old), so it seems it can handle old software/hardware
on top of that you can save the recordings and watch them again, with subtitles this would be so fantastic for the german or other language.
its pretty fantastic on the whole , there is another service teleboy.ch, does anyone have any preference?
minuses
no subtitles for the foreseable future wah, there was a program on bio cows this morning that in principal had subtitles ( according to prisme.de ) and i really wanted to understand it all.
my old mbp runs hot, watching zattoo makes it run much hotter) so i have fmc fan control on it
so far it made the mbp safari hang once, maybe because i didnt log out and in after installation?, maybe old version of safari?, maybe fluke, dont have any problems on firefox 30
by far the 'worst' thing though is you have to grit your teeth about the advertising, it lasts 20 to 30 sec about every time you click a button.
At 10 this morning there were still about 30+ left but they had already sold a lot.
Its as flimsy delicate as porcelain but works great and its light weight is a plus in a caravan. I bought it for the german subtitles. The make is Terris not Medion.
If they have sold out you could console yourself with
- 1TB chiligreen storage device 69chf to 39chf
- a hd video camera 179chf to 69chf
- veuve clicot and moet are down 39chf to 29chf
or
drop by the hallen 44 which is also in Baar and pick up 10 free books (nice lady asked me if i was looking for something and i said tolkien in german and she found me a set! i was so thrilled, apparently there are a few more there too behind the scenes.
so hopefully this push the tv and tolkien, i'm on track again to improving my german.
ps. aldi also opened a store in regensdorf today maybe they have similar offers there.
Buy a good garden spade so you can dig a hole to shit in and some edifying literature to keep your mind active.
If the rough life does then not appeal to you, the alternative is at least 3 star hotel standard. Such hotels, however are already well equipped with TVs which can receive X thousand channels.
shouldn't you be having another nespresso.
christ the number of people who can't get over my views on nespresso... its like telling a man they have a shit car, they just don't seem to be able to get their head round/over it and keeps them stuck in an offended outraged place.