Haier HLT71 7-Inch Portable LCD TV
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Customer Reviews
Disappointed
TV has the same issues as mentioned earlier by another reviewer–It will not retain the stations in memory when it is turned off. Have to go through the auto scan process each time it is turned on. Since I and at least one other person have experienced the aame failure, it appears there may be a bad batch out there. I will return mine and wait til a quality manufacturer comes out with a reliable 7 inch portable.
Picture quality was suspect also. There is very little detail in the picture and the black level could not be adjusted to improve it. Anything black had no detail unless you turn up the brightness and them the picture is washed out. Sound is ok. Remote is very good.
The tuner found 35 stations in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. I am using an outdoor antenna since I am about 45 miles from the broadcast tower. I did not try it with any other type of antenna since I was planning on using it in the bathroom and attached to the out door antenna.
I would probably have kept it if it had not had the tuner/memory problem.
TV Loses Memory Settings
I wanted to like this TV because no one else makes anything else like it. However, after programming the channels and setting the picture options, whenever the TV was turned off and back on, the TV would lose all programmed channels and settings and display the error message “Database Not Found” or something similar. Then the channels and settings would all have to be reprogrammed. Kind of annoying. I returned the TV as a result, but didn’t order a replacement since I wasn’t sure another unit wouldn’t have the same problem. As far as the reception, the unit picked up HDTV signals fine when connected to the house antenna. Don’t expect to get very good reception unless you hook up to an external antenna. As far as the picture quality, the picture was bright, but the pixel density was not very high, and the contrast was poor. No where near the quality of a decent HDTV in your home. But for the price, I could probably live with the picture quality. I will be waiting until Sony or Panasonic comes out with a similar product that actually works, with a decent screen. Sony already has a portable DVD player with a good screen, they just need to take it and add an HD tuner.
Nice picture, weak tuner
I bought this to replace my old battery 5″ CRT emergency TV. My hope was that I could somehow get a local digital channel which would play on it without power, using a rabbit ears. I managed to get it to do that. With the supplied antenna, though I live in a major metropolitan area about 8 miles east of the city and 17 miles northeast of most of the transmitters, I can get no digital signals, and a half dozen or so analog, all fuzzy. With something like the TERK HD rabbit ears, with the power turned off to it, I can get one or two local digitals (but NOT the one station I wanted to get). So, I can say it passed the emergency test.
On the other hand, the picture is outstanding and near HD, comparable to one of those portable wide screen DVD players. Playing time seems fairly robust, too, plus it has a car connector.
I give it a couple of negatives for not having an apparent real time on-screen signal strength meter, so you have no way of aiming the antenna easily. The included antenna does not telescope inside the case for easy storage, either. And you cannot just tune to some arbitrary station. There has to be enough signal for the AUTOSCAN to pick up a trace. So if you autoscan with the supplied antenna, it can find very few channels. Best thing to do is hook it up to the best antenna you can find somewhere and then autoscan, then take it home and see if you can tune in a signal there.
I’m also hoping after February 2009 that once every station is up to full digital power and on their permanent assigned frequencies this unit will work much better.