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Buying Advice , Hand held TV with DTT

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  • #2
    The Cush
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    Nothing in that spec or manual to indicate it's compatible with Irish DTT (MPEG-4). My assumption it's only UK freeview (MPEG-2) compatible.


  • #3
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Suitable Netbook / Notebook that is alleged to be able to to 1080p or 720p HD and a €25 DTT USB stick is more likely than a hand held TV.

    But unless your room window faces a DTT mast you likely won't get a signal :(

    TV is a MINIMUM of 544 x 576i and often 720 x 576i. RTE will also have some 1440 x1080i

    Those portable TVs are worse than most smart phones. It's rubbish.

    Display resolution: 640 x 234
    i.e. 1/2 USA VGA (640x 480i)
    http://www.techradar.com/reviews/gadgets/portable-video/portable-media-players-recorders/august-international-da900c-638611/specification
    It's just MPEG2 (no picture here) and really poor even for UK.


  • #4
    homer911
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    It plays MPEG4 anyway!

    http://www.augustint.com/products/tv/august/aug_da900c.pdf
    http://www.augustint.com/download/manuals/DA900C.pdf

    The manual talks about DVB-T so I dont think so...


  • #5
    The Cush
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    homer911 wrote: »
    It plays MPEG4 anyway!

    http://www.augustint.com/products/tv/august/aug_da900c.pdf
    http://www.augustint.com/download/manuals/DA900C.pdf

    The manual talks about DVB-T so I dont think so...

    Mpeg-4 for multimedia, no indication of what standard for DTT.

    DVB-T is no indications of what video compression standard is installed in the unit, it could be either MPEG-2 or MPEG-4. The Irish DTT standard is DVB-T/MPEG-4, the UK DVB-T/MPEG-2.


  • #6
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    The reviewers could not get MPEG4 to playback.
    It gets bad review.
    Really rubbish screen. Less than 1/2 resolution.
    Freeview channels can be sorted into eight groups including news and science or added to a favourites list. The seven-day EPG has two modes – daily and weekly. 'Daily' presents a list of upcoming programmes alongside the selected channel. 'Weekly' shows a grid of data skippable day by day but slow to populate.

    You can record by pressing 'record' or with the eight-event timer. But once it's recording you can't browse the EPG or menus or play back a file.

    Recordings are in MPEG-2 format and the quality is as good as the source. But it failed to play our MPEG-4 files and it's a shame there's no playlist option.

    The screen is poor with faint horizontal lines visible even from a distance and a slightly smeary looking picture regardless of the video quality.

    Read more at TechRadar

    Maplin has similar model instore. No MPEG4 and rubbish quality image.


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