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Electronics : August 10.2" Freeview and Analogue TV with Sharp 16:9 TFT LCD Widescreen - August Portable Freeview TVs have won a number of awards from leading magazines & voted Top 3 Small Screen TV by Channel 4.
Rating: 
- Disapointed
This portable TV was purchased for use of a long term hospital patient. The reception in the hospital is generally very good, indicated by the number of patients who already have TV's using indoor aerials. However, this set provides virtually no reception, analogue or otherwise. Therefore, we will now have to buy another aerial to attempt to get a reception that is watchable. I would say that this is not really how the product is described, either on the website or on the packaging.
Rating:
- Beware - postage wrong!
It says postage is £5.50 on the description page but when you buy it it's £9.00! Not too clever if you're on the 1-click buy! And a mistake / dishonest on the part of the seller!
I will be buying one of these tellies, just not here!
Later...
OK, I now have one of these tvs. If Amazon would let me change my stars I would reduce to 3 stars. The digital tuner is a lot less sensitive than the tuner on my Panasonic plasma. Sometimes I get most of the freeview channels and other times, inexplicably, I don't. For example, I can 'luck' the freeview channel and it displays fine. Then I switch to an analogue channel and try to return to freeview and all the channels say 'no signal'. I rang August who told me that probably the aerial signal was not strong enough (it's a new aerial, professionally fitted 6 months ago and my Panny works beautifully with it) and also that the digital tuner in the August is less sensitive than that fitted to the Panny as it's so small.
That may well be the case, so don't think you'll get all the freeview channels easily, just because you get them on another telly in your house!
Other than that, the picture quality is fine, the sound quality is a bit tinny. If it gave me the same access to the freeview channels as I get from my Panny I'd give it 5, but as I don't it will have to be 3!
Rating: - Excellent Service and Product
Ordered 3pm yesterday, arrived early morning today just after 17 hours. The first impression was that the TV looks nice and cute. Plugged to power socket and home TV aerial, scanned 65 Freeview and digital radios channels within 2 minutes. TV pictures are very clear with good resolution. Lost a few channels when plugged to the included portable aerial, understand this is due to signal issue as my home in Herts is not good for reception coverage, but the analogue channels works fine with the small aerial.
Tested to connect the TV to my laptop as a monitor, works ok and VGA is quite useful while connecting to the computer.
Only downside of the TV is the sound is not quite powerful due the speakers are at back, but it is acceptably enough for a TV of this size.
- DisapointedThis portable TV was purchased for use of a long term hospital patient. The reception in the hospital is generally very good, indicated by the number of patients who already have TV's using indoor aerials. However, this set provides virtually no reception, analogue or otherwise. Therefore, we will now have to buy another aerial to attempt to get a reception that is watchable. I would say that this is not really how the product is described, either on the website or on the packaging.
Rating:
- Beware - postage wrong!It says postage is £5.50 on the description page but when you buy it it's £9.00! Not too clever if you're on the 1-click buy! And a mistake / dishonest on the part of the seller!
I will be buying one of these tellies, just not here!
Later...
OK, I now have one of these tvs. If Amazon would let me change my stars I would reduce to 3 stars. The digital tuner is a lot less sensitive than the tuner on my Panasonic plasma. Sometimes I get most of the freeview channels and other times, inexplicably, I don't. For example, I can 'luck' the freeview channel and it displays fine. Then I switch to an analogue channel and try to return to freeview and all the channels say 'no signal'. I rang August who told me that probably the aerial signal was not strong enough (it's a new aerial, professionally fitted 6 months ago and my Panny works beautifully with it) and also that the digital tuner in the August is less sensitive than that fitted to the Panny as it's so small.
That may well be the case, so don't think you'll get all the freeview channels easily, just because you get them on another telly in your house!
Other than that, the picture quality is fine, the sound quality is a bit tinny. If it gave me the same access to the freeview channels as I get from my Panny I'd give it 5, but as I don't it will have to be 3!
Rating:
- Excellent Service and ProductOrdered 3pm yesterday, arrived early morning today just after 17 hours. The first impression was that the TV looks nice and cute. Plugged to power socket and home TV aerial, scanned 65 Freeview and digital radios channels within 2 minutes. TV pictures are very clear with good resolution. Lost a few channels when plugged to the included portable aerial, understand this is due to signal issue as my home in Herts is not good for reception coverage, but the analogue channels works fine with the small aerial.
Tested to connect the TV to my laptop as a monitor, works ok and VGA is quite useful while connecting to the computer.
Only downside of the TV is the sound is not quite powerful due the speakers are at back, but it is acceptably enough for a TV of this size.