Circumventing Patientline

At the risk of annoying JG I was wondering if anyone here has experience
of any very small TV sets with built-in terrestrial digital. The ideal
machine would also have some means of accepting and playing recorded
programmes, possibly from a memory stick. It would need a headphone
socket that would mute the speaker.
I've had a bit of a look round but haven't seen anything very sparkling.

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:

Subject: Circumventing Patientline

Patientline went bust; do you mean Hospedia?

In message , Bill Wright
writes
At the risk of annoying JG I was wondering if anyone here has
experience of any very small TV sets with built-in terrestrial digital.
The ideal machine would also have some means of accepting and playing
recorded programmes, possibly from a memory stick. It would need a
headphone socket that would mute the speaker.
I've had a bit of a look round but haven't seen anything very sparkling.

Bill


A friend of mine has just spent some time in hospital and wanted
something similar. A visit to Maplins produced something about the size
of an iPhone that had a digital tuner and an SD card slot so that you
could certainly record programs to play later, not sure what format, so
I don't know if you could import from elsewhere. Came with ear pieces,
mag' aerial, aerial adapter lead to something, F? It had an internal
battery that lasted some hours and an external wall wart psu.

The images were very good, even better it was only £99:00

No idea what the part No was, but it was only about 5 weeks ago, so
probably still current.
--
Bill
( A different one )

David Woolley wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:

Subject: Circumventing Patientline

Patientline went bust; do you mean Hospedia?

I was using it as a generic term. Although the equipment is still, of
course, labelled Patientline, and the staff refer to the service as
"That Patientline thing" when they advise people not to use it on
grounds of cost and the tiny low resolution picture.

Bill

Bill wrote:
In message , Bill Wright
writes
At the risk of annoying JG I was wondering if anyone here has
experience of any very small TV sets with built-in terrestrial
digital. The ideal machine would also have some means of accepting and
playing recorded programmes, possibly from a memory stick. It would
need a headphone socket that would mute the speaker.
I've had a bit of a look round but haven't seen anything very sparkling.

Bill


A friend of mine has just spent some time in hospital and wanted
something similar. A visit to Maplins produced something about the size
of an iPhone that had a digital tuner and an SD card slot so that you
could certainly record programs to play later, not sure what format, so
I don't know if you could import from elsewhere. Came with ear pieces,
mag' aerial, aerial adapter lead to something, F? It had an internal
battery that lasted some hours and an external wall wart psu.

The images were very good, even better it was only £99:00

No idea what the part No was, but it was only about 5 weeks ago, so
probably still current.
Oh thanks for that. I'll investigate.

Bill

On Saturday, March 17th, 2012, at 14:15:13h +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

At the risk of annoying JG I was wondering if anyone here has
experience of any very small TV sets with built-in terrestrial
digital.

I do not understand why you think this question would annoy me because
it is an entirely appropriate, on topic question for a group called
tech.digital-tv.

The question is, how big does the TV screen need to be?

Also have you considered that for the patient in question,
*if* they already have a laptop PC, then they could use that
with the purchase of a USB TV stick rather than buying a
portable digital TV?

IF it really must be a portable digital TV, then have a look
at some of the models which do have USB video playback at

http://www.digitaldaffodil.co.UK/portable_freeview_tv.html

and one which uses a miniSD card rather than USB at

http://www.firebox.COM/product/2271/Portable-Digital-TV

Hope that gives you some ideas of what could be suitable.

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:19:25 +0000, J G Miller wrote:

and one which uses a miniSD card rather than USB at

Sorry, that should have been uses a miniSD card in addition to USB

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:15:13 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

At the risk of annoying JG I was wondering if anyone here has experience
of any very small TV sets with built-in terrestrial digital. The ideal
machine would also have some means of accepting and playing recorded
programmes, possibly from a memory stick. It would need a headphone
socket that would mute the speaker.
I've had a bit of a look round but haven't seen anything very sparkling.

Bill

Circumventing is too good for Patientline, they should be castrated.

--
Graham.
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On 17/03/2012 14:33, Bill wrote:

A friend of mine has just spent some time in hospital and wanted
something similar. A visit to Maplins produced something about the size
of an iPhone that had a digital tuner and an SD card slot so that you
could certainly record programs to play later, not sure what format, so
I don't know if you could import from elsewhere. Came with ear pieces,
mag' aerial, aerial adapter lead to something, F? It had an internal
battery that lasted some hours and an external wall wart psu.

The images were very good, even better it was only £99:00

No idea what the part No was, but it was only about 5 weeks ago, so
probably still current.

Try here, mate!
http://www.maplin.co.uk/tv-and-satel...s/portable-tvs

A line of thought I hadn't got around to checking out fully yet.

Richard

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:54:26 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

David Woolley wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:

Subject: Circumventing Patientline

Patientline went bust; do you mean Hospedia?

I was using it as a generic term. Although the equipment is still, of
course, labelled Patientline, and the staff refer to the service as
"That Patientline thing" when they advise people not to use it on
grounds of cost and the tiny low resolution picture.

Bill

Hospedia are great! My wife got 20 free hours just for telling them
that the screens got dirty too quickly. Then she got a refund for the
hours she had already booked by phone with her credit card.

Steve

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