Cello 12v tv - sad story

[(RIP) PLANK]

ordered one of these yesterday at 5 pm came this morning at 9.30 am:thumb2

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230689657028

Picture quality is crap! I called the seller, he was very nice gave me a direct number to technical support, they were CRAP! Told me (rudely) I would have to view it exactly head on and at exactly eye level or the picture would go black, so basically that rules out two people watching it at the same time!

Conclusion: they are sending a courier to collect it back and I'm getting a refund.

Moral: don't buy a Cello 12v TV for your caravan

 

[96terrano]

But it's bloody 16"!! You should be able to view at any angle you want. I've never heard of "Cello"

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

cello seem to be the brand all 12v TV suppliers are selling, so be careful when you order. The support line is 10p a minute and then they are rude to you when you call!

did I mention the sound was crap too?

 

[makeitfit]

Get a curry's one and a PSU http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/essentials-c16ldib11-16-hd-ready-led-tv-08807897-pdt.html :augie

 

[96terrano]

cello seem to be the brand all 12v TV suppliers are selling, so be careful when you order. The support line is 10p a minute and then they are rude to you when you call!

did I mention the sound was crap too?

So you're paying for someone to give you a crap tv then paying again for someone to be rude to you

 

[makeitfit]

Get a curry's one and a PSU http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/essentials-c16ldib11-16-hd-ready-led-tv-08807897-pdt.html :augie

Forgot to say the curry's one is fine , my "picky teenage son" accepted his with no come backs

 

[96terrano]

Forgot to say the curry's one is fine , my "picky teenage son" accepted his with no come backs

Hay, us teenagers may be picky, but it's for a good reason

 

[makeitfit]

Hay, us teenagers may be picky, but it's for a good reason

Yeh so we can home in on them in their pit (bedroom) to throw them some food :lol

 

[96terrano]

Yeh so we can home in on them in their pit (bedroom) to throw them some food :lol

Well my bedroom is full of terrano parts:naughty, everything from panels to relays. All nicely arranged too

 

[makeitfit]

My boy's pit is full of Fiesta parts, computer stuff and a rather huge pyramid of tinnies, MINE grrr :wasntme

 

[geoffdown]

ordered one of these yesterday at 5 pm came this morning at 9.30 am:thumb2

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230689657028

Picture quality is crap! I called the seller, he was very nice gave me a direct number to technical support, they were CRAP! Told me (rudely) I would have to view it exactly head on and at exactly eye level or the picture would go black, so basically that rules out two people watching it at the same time!

Conclusion: they are sending a courier to collect it back and I'm getting a refund.

Moral: don't buy a Cello 12v TV for your caravan

we got the 19" cello led tv 12v for r caravan and have not a bad word to say about it works a treat and very low drain on the battery:thumbs

 

[clivvy]

I'd have bought one of these from where I work

http://www.directtvs.co.uk/Evotel_L...ED_Combi_TV__LE2201FHDVD/version.asp#maindesc

nice unit, DVD, LED, USB, full HD, 12v connection, 22" but very slim. Think we have them on display, I had a look a while back for our caravan, looked perfect,. picture quality was very good. worth a look.

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

Thanks for the suggestions, I will follow up the links tomorrow. I believe my Cello TV is faulty but the service line refuses to accept this and have let me, and themselves , down badly so no more Cello stuff for me.
I have gone back to my 5 old Aldi 15.6" TV that also runs on 12V, has freeview and uses 4 watts less power but has no built in DVD or USB - though it CAN be viewed from virtualy any angle.
The woman from Cello said "All small screen TVs are the same you have to view them straight on" she said her 17 inch cello is the same!

 

[iain.s]

Bought cello 14" + built in dvd from woolies A while ago what A piece of rubbish never bought anything made by them again

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

seen that name i think in the likes of sainsburys., thought was their own brand
so maybe not.

we bought a 16" alba from argos almost three years ago for the trailer, keep it
in its box face down in bed box. works nice subject to troublesome digital
freeview pixelating if reception isnt perfect.

i think alba is their own brand, as bought the name in. to be fair the viewing
angle on it is so so thought sometimes darker detail become a grey-black fog.

try to keep it in the box, as think away from home, not home from home. its
mains only though have used on an invertor, then eats the 110Ah battery and
find the invertor needs a good voltage in the battery.

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

watching our old aldi (tevion) TV now, running on 12v using a lead robbed from a mini beer fridge at an angle of around 45 degrees and it only consumes 36 watts. Kerry recons it's more like 10 years old. So I might just keep it a bit longer. Not wide screen thought and as TT2 said it does pixelate on freeview unless signal is very good. But you can't have eveything, can you?

 

[makeitfit]

Cant you just turn the bloody thing toward you :doh

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

I suppos, if i wanted to watch it on my own, everyone else could just listen :augie

 

[ade01]

cello

i have 3 of these and have never had a proplem use one in caravan fine :clap

 

[(RIP) PLANK]

Just bought a 20" logik set from curry's 12v LED, built in DVD, USB recording, Riverview, Surround sound (type thing), load more inputs and outputs. A better looking and more quality feeling set (if that makes sense?)

£139.99 :thumb2

Now ordering a stabilised 12v power supply approx £35

So quids in over the cello's £179.99 and for a bigger screen and more functions!

Thanks for the links and the replies :clap