Purchasing a TV Advice.

We have a Avtex  in our caravan, and find it very good, it is also very easy to tune in with just pressing one button.

The ease of retuning is an important consideration given how many times your are going to be doing it but I suppose most modern sets have an automatic feature for this.

As KenofKent, we have an Avtex and would buy another. It came with our new van 3 years ago and is well built and easy, if slow to tune. I have found this the case with other TV's as well. I am not sure why as the Freesat HDD box we have tunes in in about a quarter the time. The Avtex will record onto a memory stick, although this is fiddly and does not pause live TV all that well, even with a high spec stick. Viewing angles are however very good, better than on any other TV I have used.

There is this one advertised on ebay, and way below the prices of Avtex and Cello:

16 in Flat Screen TV with built-in Freesat, Freesat HD, Freeview, Freeview HD - and there are other more well known makes second-hand.

Avtex do a 16" if you look at the Towsure web site or Capital Outdoors for latest price.We went for the 16" with the satellite decoder built in. 

We use a 12" fromv Argos and only use when on EHU. Would suggest you get a TV/Combi of 12/14" to give flexibility. The 240V sets are very cheap and we get a good picture.

Another Avtex user here, very happy with it especially the picture quality. In normal circumstances we spend quite a bit of time in the motorhome each year so feel the extra investment is worthwhile. Particularly like the built in satellite receiver which works well with our roof mounted dish. 

David

with sets now showing 'digital' pictures (as opposed to the old analog signals) most give a good picture as the signal is either present or not, we dont get bad signals now, just present on a particular channel or not.

viewing angle might be one of the most important factors to check out, depending on how you sit in relation to your tv.

Last year, I bought the caravan TV and satellite dish from Aldi which were both cheap but ended up taking them back.  The TV kept losing signals in areas where I had not previously experienced any problems and the satellite dish was a faff to set up.  Bit the bullet and bought an Avtex 24DRS and flat satellite dish with 'Easyfind' technology and both have been brilliant.  Simple to set up, built in satellite decoder in the TV - good viewing angle and very crisp picture.  It was an expensive purchase but worth it in my opinion.  My only slight criticism is that the sound isn't brilliant but this tends to be the case with most ultra-slim TVs, these days.

I would consider not using the bracket....could a larger tv not be place elsewhere. Avtex does seem to be ridiculously expensive for a tv, all modern TVs are easy to tune and the quality will be as good as the avtex at a third of the price.