Why would anyone want an outside TV?

[silvercorvette]

I have been looking at "A"s on line.


After I sell my house I plan on trading the 5ver for an A and full timing it.

All the As that most dealers have in stock new and used have ann outside TV. I do not understand why anyone would watch TV outside (other than a baseball or football game).
If the weather is nice outside I would rather take the dogs for a walk or do some kind of physical activity such as horse shoes. I can understand why a outside shower is useful and a outside stove are nice but I prefer a charcoal grill. But sitting outside watching TV seems useless, heck I would rather people watch (watching people walk by).

Outside TVs must be popular because almost every A that I see has one but I was wondering if many people on this forum have a outside TV and if you do, do you enjoy having it?

[wa8yxm]

Normally I would agree.. Why would anyone want an outside TV. But.

1: I'm not a sports fan.. I have seen many gathered around the TV watching the ball game and drinking their favorite adult beverage.. In many cases the crowd would be too big for inside.

2: Sometimes, back when Wife was still with me, She liked to sit around ye old campfire.. Now I kind of like building 'em but not sittin around unless there are friends and perhaps something with six strings (or 12) and we chat or sing. So If the weather is decent (it is just now) I could sit and watch.

3: I do not, at this time, use Satellite TV.. But when I did the very best signal meter made is a Dish Network receiver.. Direct ranks down quite a ways.. The Dishnetwork unit however is every bit as good as a BIRD DOG (over 1,000 used) meter.

So I simply take my portable color receiver out to the dish site to aim the antenna.. Beats the hollar back and forth method.

[Pogoil]

jeepfreak wrote:
For those with the outside TV's please remember that it's quite possible that your neighbors might not be as interested in what your watching as you are. I like the idea of the wireless head phones. Maybe you could get enough pairs for all your guests.

Is it seeing or hearing that bothers you?

[jeepfreak]

For those with the outside TV's please remember that it's quite possible that your neighbors might not be as interested in what your watching as you are. I like the idea of the wireless head phones. Maybe you could get enough pairs for all your guests.

[Old-Biscuit]

Ivylog


NICE set up on that outside TV

That is best of both......storage and outside TV use.

Aluminum welding is not for the faint of heart. :B

[down_home]

A few years ago, the weather was perfect so all the neighbors and us sat outside and watch the Olympics and so on.
Now every coach has one.
Our antique has smaller tvs and wrong places.
Got to see how big a unit will fit in compartment and on slide out tray and the biggie a mount that will work.

[rockhillmanor]

Why would anyone want an outside TV?

Botton line....Cause they can.

And if I am parked next to them I get to watch some pretty good satellite programs for free, the bigger their outside TV the better! :C

[toedtoes]

Ivylog wrote:
Not sure why you think a TV will take up a lot of space. Granted I came up this design for how to put a big TV in a small opening. With the new thin LED TVs the mount could be even longer/taller so there would be even more space under the TV. You can even see the headphones I reference above for you camping purest/book readers/chilling outers who want no outside TVs, speakers, lights, kids, dogs, generators,...... Sorry, I could not resist.:B

As a "camping purist", I have no problem with outside TVs, speakers, lights, kids, dogs, generators - I have a problem with the adults who bring them. 🙂

That's a nice setup.

[rockhillmanor]

Ivylog wrote:
It will only work if you have a large cargo sliding tray so you can bring it out enough to pivot to vertical and then back to shade it......

It can be done within a standard bay opening also.
There's a guy on this forum that did it from a flip open storage bay.
His was a Real slick DIY too.

[Ivylog]

It will only work if you have a large cargo sliding tray so you can bring it out enough to pivot to vertical and then back to shade it.

Each one would have to be custom designed for the width of the tray, the thickness of the TV and the height of the opening. The mounting holes would be less of a problem but you can see the alum tubes I had to rig to mount the LED TV in the last picture above.

[DutchmenSport]

pennysmom09 wrote:
.... They all kept the volume very low, so no one seemed to mind. ...

You made me laugh on this one ... actually, maybe they are not turning the volume down .... when you get to our age (60 plus), it's not the volume being turned down ... its the hearing aid not being turned up enough! :B :S

Ivylog, I have to agree... that's a great design

For everyone else, I don't have a motor home, but I do have a removable wall mount television in our camper bed room. This is the one we bring outside. If the reason for not having an outside television is "space" only, then why not get a removable (detatachable) type mount so you can take that television outside. This way, you have the best of both: space and the ability to set up outside when you want to?

[silvercorvette]

Ivylog wrote:
Not sure why you think a TV will take up a lot of space. Granted I came up this design for how to put a big TV in a small opening. With the new thin LED TVs the mount could be even longer/taller so there would be even more space under the TV. You can even see the headphones I reference above for you camping purest/book readers/chilling outers who want no outside TVs, speakers, lights, kids, dogs, generators,...... Sorry, I could not resist.:B


As you can see here, the opening is not as tall as the TV.

I've since replace the above TV with LED TV for the power savings when boondocking.

Yes, it worked on the first try other than the little wooden block to hold it up for a better viewing angle.

That is a great design, I bet you could sell a lot of them if you hooked up with a manufacturer. After reading some of the comments I might be tempted to install a TV with your mounting system in the coach that I haven't bought and don't own.

[William_B]

If you are a considerate watcher more power to you but we full time and have "listened" to way more outside TV's than we wanted to, and been lit up with outside lights on all night long. Just my two cents...

[Ivylog]

"Plus, in Florida you are forced inside at dusk because of mosquitoes." While this can be true in the summer, where were you when this happened in the winter? Must be central Fla south of I-4 as it gets cold enough north of I-4 to kill them in the winter.

[pennysmom09]

My initial opinion was that it was a waste, just something to bother your neighbor. However, at the park in Florida where we winter, we saw many MH owners enjoying theirs, particularly the men watching sports or or listening to news while the wife is inside fixing dinner. They all kept the volume very low, so no one seemed to mind. We are all mostly senior snowbirds, so quiet is well respected. Plus, in Florida you are forced inside at dusk because of mosquitoes.

[Ivylog]

Not sure why you think a TV will take up a lot of space. Granted I came up this design for how to put a big TV in a small opening. With the new thin LED TVs the mount could be even longer/taller so there would be even more space under the TV. You can even see the headphones I reference above for you camping purest/book readers/chilling outers who want no outside TVs, speakers, lights, kids, dogs, generators,...... Sorry, I could not resist.:B


As you can see here, the opening is not as tall as the TV.

I've since replace the above TV with LED TV for the power savings when boondocking.

Yes, it worked on the first try other than the little wooden block to hold it up for a better viewing angle.