Whatever happen to portable TVs?
Last year I was interested in buying a portable TV to watch stuff from a USB but no major electronics brand makes them anymore, why?
I remember my grandad game my one similar to pic related in the mid 90's
Whatever happen to portable TVs?
Jaxson Nelson
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Landon James
you got to meme harder than that kid
Levi Rogers
Analog TV has been abandoned here. So it's useless anyhow.
Luke Morgan
You can broadcast stuff to it
Jaxson Diaz
They've been replaced by laptops, tablets, smartphones, and the internet in general. Are you really so stupid to look around and not notice how ubiquitous computer technology is?
Noah Cruz
Jackson Walker
Are you seriously watching TV?
David Sanders
someone just watched Techmoan.
Kevin Sanders
just use your smartphone for tv watching
Aiden Baker
No one use them anymore.
Except the nips and koreans, they have it built into their phones anyway.
Michael Wood
The time has come for my old casio...
Jaxon Hughes
...
Christopher Thomas
Smartphones happened
Elijah Ortiz
I stole them all.
Angel Flores
...
Gabriel Green
RCA still makes them.
Liam Hall
the real question is "whatever happened to the airwaves" your sega game gear can't play tv anymore because the government stole the frequencies from the people and converted it to botnet digital signals
James Torres
You can watch whatever digital file or stream on your phone or tablet, and regular broadcast TV with one of these dongles.
Mason Clark
digital TV switchover happened
Josiah Campbell
That is in most countries illegal.
Lincoln Bennett
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Elijah Martin
Aww man I loved that little guy, still think its knocking around my dads house somewhere.
Either way no terrestrial TV isn't broadcast over the air anymore.
Daniel Myers
>TV
>2012+5
Parker Turner
>Pic related
I recently bought one of these old portable televisions.
It's made by D&S but looks to be from the 80's with black and white still on it. Wondering if anyone has figured out a way to convert the external antenna input to digital.
If so then please post the necessary adapters and cables required for such a conversion.
Oliver Reed
because nobody watches TV anymore
Kayden Jackson
A digital STB, wire its RF output to the TV's antenna traces.
Angel Price
Not if you're licensed to do it.
Logan Watson
There's nothing preventing you from putting a digital tuner in a portable unit. It's hard to buy a phone that doesn't have one built in in Japan, and while the easy-to-decode 1seg spec was necessary in the mid-2000s now even potato phones can deal with decoding and scaling the 10mbit MPEG-2 of ATSC.
The problem is just that no one wants that shit enough to buy it.
Jonathan Lewis
You can broadcast your own shit via a vcr coax output and a signal booster to an antenna. Can broadcast on channel 3 or 4.
Tyler Sanders
>This product is not available for purchase and has been discontinued.
Anthony Richardson
seatch usb atsc tuner on amazon or aliexpress, there's a bunch of them
not huge amounts and mostly not micro usb because, as noted, no one in the us cares about broadcast tv
William Torres
Oh boy it's that little niche shit who has to have some unique special snowflake device for attention. Go suck off the UMPC losers while you're at it.
What happened is smartphones. We have data connections and streaming services or youtube now. So you aren't even on the right frequency.
>I remember
fuck off
Anthony Scott
came to post this
Thomas Gray
>terrestrial TV isn't broadcast over the air anymore.
Are you stupid?
Evan Barnes
>What happened is smartphones.
And? There's no reason a smartphone can't have a built-in tv tuner except that carriers would rather have you pay them for data. Phones even have fm radio tuners that are disabled for this very reason.
>We have data connections
Which cost money, and even if you have "unlimited" data can still get throttled.
Nathan Moore
i had a 4" b/w crt portable tv that looked just like that, only it was grey
mostly played playstation games on it
it was a very resilient unit, one time during a camping trip it ended up mostly underwater, and it still worked after it dried out for a while
Charles Gutierrez
>TV
>2017
Austin Thomas
Still have this sitting in the closet.
Fuck you Obama.
Mason Nguyen
Are you?
Analogue TV signal is literally no longer broadcast anymore
Dylan Gomez
I've always wondered why the US doesn't seem to give a shit about broadcast TV. I always see it in cordcutter forums that people have no idea how to get the main 4 channels for NFL games or whatever. They've always just paid for it as part of a shitty cable service.
Xavier Jackson
In my hellhole they recently cut off 100MHz from DTV and transfered it to mobile Internet use.