Axion AXN-8701 - 7 Inch LCD Widescreen - Portable TV- Best Solution To Enjoy TV When You Are On The Go

Televisions have been a symbol of modernity, prosperity and mass media since the second half of the last century, They have earned a permanent place in our living rooms, and it is no exaggeration to say they have shaped our world in that they has dispersed information like no media had done previously. Television has truly brought the world into our homes.

As old as the technology is, is as long as people have been trying to improve on it. Naturally we've seen some significant advances, black and white to color, dimensions of the screens, analog to digital and recently the increase in popularity of HD, But one project has never really worn out; portable TV.

Sinclair C5 portable TV Sinclair Research, more famous for its commercial disaster Sinclair C5, gave us the first professional near-pocket TV in the nineteen seventies, the MTV - 1. I say near-pocket TV because with its small gray scale display and huge battery, you'd need a pretty big pocket to call it a pocket TV, but one selling point was that is could receive both PAL and NTSC transmissions, making it perfect for gadget-hungry jet setters. Actually, with a price tag of $395 (equal to $1,309.66 at present), gadget-hungry jet setters were perhaps the only ones who could buy it, the MTV -1 lost the organization £1.8m in 1978 accordingly.

With the coming of age of the Printed circuit board and Integrated circuit, electronics started to get smaller, and rapidly. So when Sony launched the Watchman FD-210 in 1982 it was significantly smaller, though not quite compact enough for your pocket. And because of another innovation, LCD, a later generation, the FDL-310 had a color screen. Watchman continued to sell well into the 1990s. Though the devise size to screen size ratio was always a problem.

Those who have been shopping around lately would have noticed LCDs are becoming cheaper. One of the technologies taking advantage of this is the portable Television. Axion AXN-8701 - 7 Inch LCD Widescreen - Portable TV The most recent generation is higher quality and affordable, leading this generation is the Axion AXN-8701. As we've seen before manufacturers have always been searching for the happy medium between devise size and screen size, and with it 5.7x7.2x1.2 inches (H x W x D) along with 7 inch LCD widescreen, it looks like Axion has done just that.

The Axion AXN-8701 includes: a built-in antenna and an external one, built in ATSC/NTSCTV tuner for both analog and digital stations, built-in rechargeable battery and also a car charger as well. It's a 7" LCD screen, two high quality speakers for stereo sound, remote control, adjustable brightness, volume control, headphone jack. Along with A/V inputs so you can hook other things up to it also, such as game consoles and DVD player. All of this packed into a sleek, mat black cover.

All in All it's a wonderful small device, perfect solution for someone who wants to, let's say, watch their cooking show in her kitchen but has no room for a bulky TV, and a life saver for lots of car trip or the dentist waiting room. Having the Axion AXN-8701 you can enjoy all the amusement and information of your living room TV where ever you are.

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