TV or tablet in your camper?
I see a lot of people with TV's in their campers. I'm not sure how many of those people use them, but they are in there. With Android tablets being so cheap these days (even PC tablets aren't that e...
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When I bought my used 2000 Bigfoot Camper the previous owner showed me the "entertainment" center which consisted of about a 12" TV/DVD Combo stored in a cabinet next to the fridge. I took one look at it and promptly offered to let him keep it. I'm not a huge TV/Movie person to begin with and no way did I want to bother with something as outdated as that contraption.
Generally speaking if I'm camping with the family we don't allow electronic devices. However, I also use my camper for business and just recently completed a trip up the Oregon and Washington Coast's from San Jose to Seattle and back. I had just purchased a Wilson Electronics Cell phone signal booster and was VERY impressed with the results. One night in particular, I was on the West side of the Olympic Mountain range on the Washington coast. Basically out in the middle of nowhere save for a very small town (Forks Washington) about 5 or 10 miles away. With my signal booster I managed to have full 4G service and was streaming Netflix over the connection in HD with no problems! I use a 8" NVIDIA Shield tablet for my movies as there really isn't a position in the camper a TV could mount and not be in the way anyway.
One special note... I'm on MetroPCS pre-paid which carries on the T-Mobile network. I stream Netflix, Youtube, I-Heart Radio and Pandora all the time and have never run into a data cap. I certainly don't have service everywhere like Verizon or AT&T but I get it about 80% everywhere I need it and not having data caps is worth it.
Generally speaking if I'm camping with the family we don't allow electronic devices. However, I also use my camper for business and just recently completed a trip up the Oregon and Washington Coast's from San Jose to Seattle and back. I had just purchased a Wilson Electronics Cell phone signal booster and was VERY impressed with the results. One night in particular, I was on the West side of the Olympic Mountain range on the Washington coast. Basically out in the middle of nowhere save for a very small town (Forks Washington) about 5 or 10 miles away. With my signal booster I managed to have full 4G service and was streaming Netflix over the connection in HD with no problems! I use a 8" NVIDIA Shield tablet for my movies as there really isn't a position in the camper a TV could mount and not be in the way anyway.
One special note... I'm on MetroPCS pre-paid which carries on the T-Mobile network. I stream Netflix, Youtube, I-Heart Radio and Pandora all the time and have never run into a data cap. I certainly don't have service everywhere like Verizon or AT&T but I get it about 80% everywhere I need it and not having data caps is worth it.
