Non-RV television

bigorange wrote:
We're considering moving a smaller LCD flat-screen TV from the house into our trailer. Any concerns with using a "non-RV" TV? I assume maybe some risk with vibration and temperature extremes, but what really makes a "RV-specific" TV any different? DC power I guess...anything else?

No such item exists at least not any more, or almost do not exist.

Back in the OLD and I do mean OLD days when you could test the Vacuum tubes at your local K-mart and pick up replacements..... Well some of those did not like bouncing down the highway. Not a problem with modern Solid State TV's that do not have socketed parts or not the same kind of socket.
Likewise with CRT televisions moving around can cause color issues as the set can build up a magnetic field from moving too much.. Again not a problem with today's flat screens.

Today Plasma type TV's (Very big) do not like bouncing . But when I say BIG (And heavy) I mean BIG and HEAVY!!!

As for flat screen LED/LCD tv's. Anything you find on the market is RV compatible. Samsung, Dynex. Toshiba, And brands you have never heard of. Even ELEMENT (only TV made in the USA at least till they finish shutting down the plants) which is also the only TV I do not recommend for RV is ok in an RV. provided you never want to watch digital cable. (They are also the only TV I know of that does not decode QAM digital cable). They just announced closing one plant. I know they have. or had more. but do not know their status.

But any TV OTHER THAN PLASMA you find today at Best-Buy, Wal-Mart, ABC-Warehoue. Costco, Sam's Target, Sears, ______ will do just fine in an RV.