TV or tablet in your camper?

obgraham wrote:
We bump into it a lot, and in fact we never watch it.

My tvs are stored when we aren't watching them.

I'm about to pull the TV out of our Class B. We bump into it a lot, and in fact we never watch it.

We have a Flex self loacating satellite antenna and Direct TV and a honda 2000 as the wife likes her shows. I don't watch TV so everything stays stowed if its just me

We have a tv, and also bring our iPads and our laptop. We use ixpand sync and sandisk media drive for our movies and anything special we want to view.
Our camping usually has little to no internet and the tv station reception is hit and miss also.
We put the shows we want to view on our media drives and can view them through the tv or our iPads.

Depends on where and when you want to watch "TV". If you won't be staying at campgrounds a lot, the TV is pretty useless unless you get a satellite dish as well. I have a TV and dish but frankly rarely use it. The kids are always on their mobile devices and I don't watch TV unless the weather is bad.

The issue with mobile devices is the cost of data. I have unlimited data so I don't worry too much. So short answer is the TV is a lot of hassle when these days everyone watches what they want on their own device. Seems the days of gathering 'round the TV are long gone.

no tv but we bring our tablet with us just for the apps we use,like backroad maps and lake bathymetrics,books birds, game tracks,weather and things like that. but the new samsung android we just bought was not cheap.we have zero interest in tv when we are out and about,which is almost every weekend.i also need my e reader.

I do not care for either, I kinda' want to "de-tech" when I am out in the woods. I do bring a radio though.

I use the tablet to watch stuff on my own - connect it to a 24 inch TV I carry if I am going to watch with wife.

We certainly do have HDTV and Internet in our OFF-ROAD POPUP camper... I love to be able to watch the weather live radar for the area I am at when I can...

We use the internet to check in with the kids, pay a few bills, and surf the Internet some. I am working on More Battery Power here as we speak and this will probably include some Internet video streaming of things. Presently our Verizon MIFI unit gives us 3GB Data service per month which we will want to increase if we get into any down streaming routines.

I am also a Ham Radio operator which uses alot of Internet connections for things... When I am on WEATHER ALERT than I want to have both local HDTV and Internet for weather business...

My OFF-ROAD POPUP is configured for HDTV TV and several Ham Radio bands along with Police and Fire Dept/Rescue Squad monitoring... This includes additional batteries for off-road operation when not connected to shore power.


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This is a layout of my popup floor plan showing where all of my Antennas and Ham Radio items are located...


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We are RV Campers and not RV Travelers per say so our day light time is really devoted to Camping usually OFF-ROAD way back in the woods somewhere and the Evenings/nights are devoted to Ham Radio and HDTV and other Devices we have with us...

Wouldn't want do it any differently haha...

ADDED NOTE: I should add we added a 600WATT PSW Power Inverter which gives two multihead 120VAC receptacles drops with one located near the Home Entertainment area and the second drop cord on the back of a table top near where we sleep. This is our always ON emergency power to run all the things like HDTV DVDs and cell phones and computer items chargers along with several other emergency power items we like to have available when camping... I very seldom use more than 300WATTs but it is nice to have the available Inverter power when we might need it... Having the Pure Sine Wave model Power Inverter makes all of this worry free on what might get plugged into the Inverter to use..

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We have a 22 inch tv in our camper. we also bring tablets along. I have an Intel Computestick attached to my tv to make it "smart." We can use the tv for dvds, tv, Netflix, amazon, etc. We use our VZ hotspot if there is no cable or internet available. We typically only use the tv at night, during the day we are out and about.