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13-inch flat tv combo with blu-ray

9 years ago

Is there such an animal? I cannot believe how lousy the search results in Yahoo and Google were when I tried to find a place that sold these. Gadzillions hits. All useless. Time spent searching: over 2 hrs. Sigh. I am very frustrated.

So, does anyone know if 13-inch TV Combos are sold with a Blu-ray unit? The only ones I found in my searches were using the ole DVD format.

TIA,
Luis

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kudzu9
9 years ago
luis-
I suspect that the reason you are not getting hits is because such units are probably not made. Why? Because a 13" tv is too small to probably see any qualitative difference in the picture whether the source is Blu-Ray or standard DVD. If you want to play a Blu-Ray disc with a tv of this size you would have to connect a separate Blu-Ray player. I've stood in front of much larger tv's that were side-by-side and I couldn't tell for sure which one was 720p and which one was 1080p. If you want more info on size, resolution, and viewing distance, check out the link below.

How close are you going to be sitting to a tv this size?

Here is a link that might be useful: Screen size
GregNow
9 years ago
Kudzu has a point. There is just no point in building a blue-rayand tv or a monitor combo that is not capable of displaying high quality media. It is possible to make something like that work though. All you need is a tablet and a blue-ray player that has a usb port w/c isn't that hard to find. simply connect the two and play. I have tried this with an external dvd drive on an android tablet but idk if it would work on iPads.
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luis_pr
Original Author
9 years ago
Interesting note, kudzu. I simply assumed there would be blu-ray versions but maybe they are too expensive for combos. Closeness is not relevant in this scenario though. There just is no space for anything bigger in that spot.

I was originally thinking that I could buy a blu-ray combo and just play HD movies there anyways, letting it upconvert . I wanted to have the technology only. Maybe in a few years I will get BR movies so I will be playing DVD versions.

The unit will be for my mother and the tablet-player sounds like too bulky for the space and to complicated for her use since I would have to put this on top of her current combo & Uverse unit.
luis_pr
Original Author
9 years ago
On a side note, in case you have some knowledge on these Internet searches, how can one limit the scope to -for example- only blu-ray and not getting hundreds of thousands of hits? It is very frustrating to search pages to find they do not even have the word blu-ray. I tried using single or double quotes to look for an exact match and that did not help. I kept getting pages with 13-inch tv combos but picked up the page because it found the word blu-ray elsewhere in the page. That was definitely not an exact match. Any other symbols that I can use around my search string words to force a 'real' exact match?
luis_pr
Original Author
9 years ago
I have done something like that too, Gil. I visited Amazon but their search results drove me batty. Then I went to newegg,com and I had coneption fit trying to reduce the tv's by screen size because I had to click once on each screen size to erase the ones I did not want and everytime I clicked, the screen refreshed itself (wait, wait, wait). Oh, lord.

I would swear that one of the search engines at one time had a way to just get the exact results and you could click somewhere if you wanted 'similar' but not exact results. I think it was Yahoo but it sure was not working earlier this AM.

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