Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing.
Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing.
As a kid I imagined the future as being able to hold a TV in your pocket, and flying skateboards. For the latter I guess electric scooters will have to do
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Would this require feeding it batteries like a triggerhappy machine gunner?
Absolutely! (Same as playing a regular game on a Game Gear.)
I had both an AC adapter and a 12VDC car adapter for mine. Without those (considering the sorry state of rechargeables back then), the cost of batteries would've made actually using the damn thing untenable.
Look, I tried, and failed, to come up with a joke involving bonking something on the head, but they all got too wordy.
That thing was heavy as hell, especially with all those batteries.
Probably! According to Wikipedia you get 3-5 hours off of 6 AA batteries. Not sure how that changes with the TV tuner but battery life wasn't great.
The antenna doesn't need power to receive the signal, unless it's boosted, but something tells me that's not the case here.
What might consume more power would be any kind of decoding that's going on.
And a carry pouch
The Turbo Express also had a TV tuner add-on.
The PSP also had that type of attachment here in Japan, but it uses the 1-seg standard that IIRC was made for phones and still exists