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This portable has excellent picture quality and very good reception. The LCD screen makes it much more compact than other 5" color TV's. I carry mine in an old Zip drive tote bag - including all its accessaries. The low power consumption of the LCD is also why it uses smaller batteries (8 AA's) than other TV's. It's still small & light even with the battery pack attatched, and cheaper to operate on batteries, too. It will also run on AC or a car's 12v lighter. You can connect an external antenna or a cable box, or A/V cables to use it as a monitor. This is the best 5" color TV I've used, and I've had several. In my opinion, picture tube based 5" color TV's just became obsolete.
Although this TV doesn't have a cable ready tuner, I've never seen a 5" TV that does.

The TV is very compact, attractive and able to be connected to many peripheral devices. It can also be used in a car. If you're buying it to attach to a Playstation or other game, you will probably be quite pleased. The screen quality is good as is the reception. The flaw is that, although you can hook it to cable, you can only get channels up to 24. For that reason, we returned ours, since we wanted it to see some higher channels.

I am a photographer for a network affiliate in San Diego. I use this monitor every day on location. This monitor has been dropped and thrown around more than anything else I own. I have literally taken it out and put it away every day, five days a week, for two years. The monitor face is made of plastic, and shows considerable wear, but is certainly still visible.

One gripe is that the battery option doesn't work very well. Anything less than a set of fully charged AA's will make the monitor look dim, almost un-usable. (That's a fresh set of EIGHT AA's, to last an hour or two.) An AC adaptor is included (and I reccomend you use it), a DC adaptor (for the car) is availible and also possible.

The monitor has a standard camera mount on the bottom, so you can use any camera clamp or tripod to hold up the monitor.

Overall, I give it four stars. (I knocked one off for the mediocre battery performance.) I'd buy it again in a heartbeat.

This is an amazing product. It is lightweight, has a good picture and the color and reception is very good. I had shopped at [local stores] and could not find a color tv that used current and also ran on batteries. It also can be used in the car since it comes with adapter for cigarette lighter, it can be used with DVD player, VCR and Sony Playstation. It is also a standby for an emergency or power outage. I like it so much, I would like to have another one for home since I am using it at work now to tune in to Dr Phil's talk show for now.

It's amazing what you find out when you don't have power for a while. After Hurricane Charley tore through Orlando, we were left without electrical creature comforts for five long days. One of the worst things was not being able to see local TV radar to know what the storm was doing. But hey, this was a once-in-a-lifetime event, right?

Well hello, Frances!

After learning another hurricane was planning to head in our direction a few weeks later, I decided to find a battery-powered television to help us get through the ordeal. The 5507 had the biggest screen I could find, along with all the accessories I wanted with a nice price to match. It was shipped overnight and arrived one day before Frances... talk about cutting it close.

I couldn't have been more pleased with my choice. The image is crisp and clear, and the reception is just what you would expect when you're dealing with airborne signals. Some channels will come in fine, others barely if at all. But when your cable is out, you take what you can get. Battery life is about as advertised, roughly two hours on a set of 8 AAs (and nobody is buying up AAs for emergencies, so they're easy to find). You can go with a smaller TV that uses less, but you won't have much fun straining to see weather maps on a 2.8" screen. The 5507's full 5" display is perfect for extended viewing. You also get house and car power adapters, for those times when you have power.

Why only four stars? It's a great little set, but not perfect. Why can't someone build a portable TV that dials in channels like a real set? This one uses the tried and true (and very annoying) "vertical line searching" method. And it doesn't remember any settings (except volume), so you'll be back to starting at the first channel after you turn it off.

Since Frances hit, I've used it as a monitor for Xbox gaming - great for gamenights on the go. And we were back to TV viewing with the arrival of Jeanne this past weekend. After watching it through two hurricanes, I can safely say you won't go wrong picking up this little bugger... it'll be your best friend when you really need it.