TinyTV 2 - Portable Retro Television with Working Rotary knobs - Load Your own Videos Easily via USB onto Your own minature TV (Clear)

Around the late 90’s or early 00’s my friend’s mom had a small battery powered TV that we brought with us on a road trip. It barely worked and the battery didn’t last long BUT I just thought it was so cool. This memory prompted me to look up small televisions on Amazon to see how much technology has advanced since that long ago road trip.That’s when the MiniTV popped up! After a bit of research I ordered one and I could not be happier. It just oozes the sort of comfy, warm, and nostalgic vibe that I love. Like grandma’s old TV that she still uses. Except this thing is packed with awesome features. The dials work on the tv and the little remote is fully functional. The picture is clear and crisp with good sound output considering the size. It comes pre-loaded with some stuff on it (my favorite is tue Gumby channel or the fireplace channel) but with a usb-c port on the back you can connect it to your Windows or Mac and use their app to upload your own videos on the TV. You can also stream some services like Netflix to the tv screen when the cable is still connected to your computer. I really enjoy showing it off to people when they come over, everyone is always really impressed when I show them how functional it actually is. Also, it has a pretty good battery-life.Obviously this isn’t something most people are going to want to use as their primary tv or streaming device to watch all the time. This is sort of a niche thing that is meant to be a cool thing to show off to people or to have in the background when you’re just chilling. I personally like falling asleep with it playing on my nightstand or streaming a favorite movie or show while I’m relaxing or doing something in my room.If this is the kind of cool little thing you like to collect or have around your house then I can’t recommend it enough. It’s very well made and clearly created with care and quality- not churned out by the thousands in some far-away factory. For around $50 this is an awesome product and more than worth the price for the quality and the enjoyment it has given me.

Nice tv.. honestly it’s very small for what I wanted it for but still usable. Very easy to add your own videos.

It just arrived and I only had moments to play with it. But the tv has working knobs which I used in order to change the channels and adjust the volume. There are some preloaded items already on the device and about 4-6 channels. They even added the channel number on the screen. I know it's silly but the idea of this tiny tv just tickles my fancy.The picture is perfect and clear. A magnifying glass is not necessary to view anything on the tv either. I didn't get a chance to try the remote but I can only assume they work fine since the buttons on the remote are certainly bigger than the knobs actually on the tv. The knobs do not 'click' over by the way. For some of us old enough to have lived with an older tv the knobs usually made a noise when they were turned and you could feel the knob actually changing the channels. I'm sure it could be done but your talking about adding another feature on a device that your trying to keep small. Plus, anyone turning the channels by hand may not want the additional difficulty of changing the channel in that manner on a knob that is pretty small to begin with.The sound is also perfectly fine. I was afraid that it would sound would be more of an issue but I was willing to ignore it for the novelty of the idea. But the sound is fine. I wouldn't attempt to try to listen to it if you had a lot of background noise ongoing at the same time, then you might have an issue.As I was flipping the channels the only item I recognized was Gumby on one of the channels. I did not immediately recognize anything else. Also note that when the tv is turned on and off via the button on the top of the set that the video continues to play where you left off instead of starting from the beginning. I highly recommend this item. Even if the items that are preloaded are not to your taste you can download other items. I can only assume that they will automatically shrink to fit the screen. I haven't had the time to read the information that can with the set or check out their website. I just wish they had other options to chose from other than miniature gaming.

This was a very neat little device. Connects and charges through USB-C. I had no problem connecting it to an M2 mac. You need to download a video converter from their website, which seems to be a gui front end to ffmpeg. Very easy to use. I do a lot of video transcoding, so I was a little surprised to see it uses motion-JPEG as a video format, but it uses little cpu power to decode. You can probably fit something like 10 hours of video. There is a text control file that you can edit that controls which file is mapped to what channel number. I loaded mine with shows from 1967 (like Star Trek). You can easily tell what they are, even on such a tiny screen. It comes with example videos pre-loaded (a fireplace, the ocean, etc).