A handheld television is a portable device for watching television that usually uses a TFT LCD or OLED and CRT color display. Many of these devices resemble handheld transistor radios .
5-616: The Sinclair TV80 , also known as the Flat Screen Pocket TV or FTV1 , was a pocket television released by Sinclair Research in September 1983. Unlike Sinclair's earlier attempts at a portable television , the TV80 used a flat CRT with a side-mounted electron gun instead of a conventional CRT; the picture was made to appear larger than it was by the use of a Fresnel lens . It was a commercial failure, and did not recoup
10-404: The £4 million it cost to develop; only 15,000 units were sold. New Scientist warned that the technology used by the device would be short-lived, in view of the liquid crystal display technology being developed by Casio . This technology-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Handheld television In 1970, Panasonic released the first TV which
15-661: Was eventually brought to digital TV with DVB-H , although it didn't see much success. These devices often have stereo 1⁄8 inch (3.5 mm) phono plugs for composite video -analog mono audio relay to serve them as composite monitors ; also, some models have mono 3.5 mm jacks for the broadcast signal that is usually relayed via F connector or Belling-Lee connector on standard television models. Some include HDMI , USB and SD ports. Screen sizes vary from 1.3 to 5 inches (33 to 127 mm). Some handheld televisions also double as portable DVD players and USB personal video recorders . Portable televisions cannot fit in
20-445: Was introduced as “Flat TV” later renamed after the nickname Watchman , a play on the word Walkman . It had grayscale video at first. Several years later, a color model with an active-matrix LCD was released. Some smartphones integrate a television receiver, although Internet broadband video is far more common. Since the switch-over to digital broadcasting, handheld TVs have reduced in size and improved in quality. Portable TV
25-635: Was small enough to fit in a large pocket; called the Panasonic IC TV MODEL TR-001 and Sinclair Research released the second pocket television, the MTV-1 . Since LCD technology was not yet mature at the time, the TV used a minuscule CRT which set the record for being the smallest CRT on a commercially marketed product. Later in 1982, Sony released their first model - the FD-200, which
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