All I want is a TV.

[Eric Wettschreck]

All I want to do is get a new small TV/DVD combo for a fish house. I have not bought a TV in around 15 years, I don't know diddly about anything, and it shows.

I don't need big surround sound, I don't need "The greatest display ever", I don't need anything fancy....I just want to watch 3 Amigos or Dirty Harry in the fish house when I get bored.

LED/LCD/LG/HD.....What the heck?!?!?!? What does any of this stuff mean????

[upnorth]

LED=Light emitting diode. LCD=Liquid crystal display(probably not the best choice for cold, things freeze) and LG=brand and HD=quality of the picture.

Are you looking for a DC to run off battery or just something to run off a generator. We had a small one that the wife was going to get rid of, not sure if we still have it, not a combo tho. But heck a DVD player can be picked up at wally world for $29. I can find out if she got rid of it not if you are interested. It would be free.

[Powerstroke]

Upnorth didn't quite say it, but I would avoid getting a TV/DVD combo. It adds costs to the TV and the DVD is the part that will fail first leaving you with a regular TV that cost too much. A cheap easy DVD player can be had for next to nothing. My Mother in law always gets those combos and the DVD portion always fails first.

[upnorth]

Well the wife already gave that little tv away.

[delcecchi]

All I want to do is get a new small TV/DVD combo for a fish house. I have not bought a TV in around 15 years, I don't know diddly about anything, and it shows.

I don't need big surround sound, I don't need "The greatest display ever", I don't need anything fancy....I just want to watch 3 Amigos or Dirty Harry in the fish house when I get bored.

LED/LCD/LG/HD.....What the heck?!?!?!? What does any of this stuff mean????

The modern tvs are pretty much all flat panel types made with LCD screens, like on depth finders and laptops. It is hard to find the old crt types any more. The new ones are also lighter and easier to carry around.

The Liquid Crystal panel has to be lit from behind, so they use either some sort of fluorescent stuff or light emitting diodes. that is the LED part.

Old school TV is Standard Definition, with the nearly square picture. They have two additional versions that are considered High Definition. They are the wide screens. 720p is the lowest and 1080 is higher. Either is ok in a small tv because you can't see the difference anyway. The number is how many dots across the screen.

Many of the small ones come with DVD players which don't seem to add much to the cost, but do have negatives as others have noted. A plus is that they are one less piece of equipment and associated cables and remote control. That's why we got one for the cabin. No extra box and cable.

[spearchucker]

As Upnorth said, the LCDs can freeze if left in an unheated HSOList.

[Eckie]

I bought 26 inch LCD TV/DVD combo's for the kids rooms. This way, I could mount them on the wall, without needing a place to put the DVD player and have cords running up and down the wall.

The big box electronics place has these for $300 or less for the average name brand.

As stated, I wouldn't leave an LCD TV in an unheated shack.

[CAMAN]

http://www.hotspotoutdoors.com/forum/ubb...color_TV#UNREAD

[lotsofish]

Pretty much all new tv's are either LCD or Plasma, LCD being most common. LED refers to the light source. Cheaper/older LCD tv's use florescent lights instead of LED's. LED is a better quality light, so you get a better picture.

The thing to look at is recommended operating temperature. For most tv's, this is probably going to be around 40-100F. Probably just a good idea to get something you can carry with you when you leave.