Bathroom TV Options - Help Needed

[kudos2]

EDIT: See My First HC DIY Front Room Thread Here

I'm doing my bathroom at the moment and the room is gutted ready for some major alterations.

I've always wanted to have a TV in the wall in the bathroom and have been looking at the options.

I don't want to go for the TileVision tv's, too expensive and would require me to dig out the wall for the recess box.

I saw someone on the forums just used a computer monitor covered by glass ( I think it was 'Media Center House' or something). I quite like this idea for price reasons, although I'm concerned about condensation on the glass obscuring the screen.

Perhaps even a smaller LCD/LED panel would do the job? Though not sure where to source these from.

The ultimate would be a thin touchscreen panel I could hook up to WMC7 or similar.

Has anyone actually done this? Perhaps can give me some pointers / suggestions......

Cheers,
Kudos

[kudos2]

Waterproof TV

Has anyone seen/used these waterproof TV's from proofvision ?

Kudos

[MarkP80]

The bathroom has specific regulations relating to electrical equipment and zones etc. Any housings for electrical equipment would, IMHO, need to be sutiably rated for that environment and conditions. I don;t see how a DIY housing/wall panel would ever achive that. Just being waterproof doesn't meet that requirment, it would need certification.

I'd stick with a tv designed for the bathroom. there's also an advertiser on thsi very page - www.tech2o.co.uk - I've no knowledge of them though, nor the one you mention.

Cheers,
MarkP

[kudos2]

Hi MarkP,

Thanks for your input, I agree I should go for a specially designed unit. It would be different if I were recessing the screen into a stud wall where there was at least some air and potential access, but I need to place it into concrete brick.

£400 get's you a 15" proofvision Waterproof TV

or Tech2o 15" TECH2O 15" Mirror Waterproof HD Ready Television with: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

or a 19" vanguard mirrored finish Vanguard 19" waterproof mirror bathroom TV with built: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics & Photo

which looks the same as the tech20 19" Classic

Tech2o waterproof televisions. Waterproof LCD TV Online shop, mirror televisions, bathroom televisions, outdoor television and kitchen television all available at low prices.


I prefer the non-mirrored effect so I may go for the proofvision 17" seeing as it's on special offer at only 40 quid more than the 15"

Waterproof TV 17 INCH

Kudos

[kudos2]

I've decided to plump for the 19" White seeing as Proofvision have them in stock, the 15" & 17" have a two week lead time.

I'll take plenty of pics when it arrives in case anyone is interested......

Kudos

[MarkP80]

I'll take plenty of pics when it arrives in case anyone is interested......

- We certainly will be!

MarkP

[kudos2]

Well, well, look what came today.....

Took these at lunch, more to follow later when I get home....

[kudos2]

The waterproof remote

Backside of remote has a coin slot which you twist to get to the pill-cell battery.

Screen fits into container with four little pins. It goes in then slides down to lock in place.

A whole evening lost to chasing in the back box. What a mess !

Room for the cables.

[kudos2]

Just a quick note on Proofvision...

I found this company very nice to deal with. I emailed about VAT because I'm in Guernsey, and received a call from a pleasant chap William.

He gave me an honest description of inventory and lead times and the TV I ordered was sent out the next day by Euro48 Parcelforce.

Cheers,
Kudos

[kudos2]

First Impressions:

I've barely had a chance to play with the TV yet because I spent all last night chasing out the hole in the bathroom.

The picture quality is fine, i put on the new Star Trek BluRay which is the best looking blu I've seen.

Although the shipping sticky plastic is still on the sreen, from bath length viewing distance 5ft-6ft the picture looks great, close up I think there's a bit of artefacting, but you don't view from 10inches anyway....

My slight concern was the input control, but I was glad to see when you turn the TV onto standby it returns to the same input when switched back on again.

I was happy to see the TV detected it was receiving a 1080p signal and displayed HDMI 1080P in the upper left hand corner.

The speakers are pretty weak, I think they're ony 2watt, I had to crank them up to 3/4 full to get any decent volume. Once again fine for bath-time viewing. There is an 3.5mm phono audio out lead though so you could amplify and add speakers to that should require more power.

Everyone's setup is going to be different, I'm running the cables up the wall into the ceiling and so I'm going to have to extend the cables coming from the TV.

I've ordered a 5m IEC kettle lead, 5m HDMI extender cable, 5m RF cable, 5m 3-phono cable, 5m 3.5mm to 2 phono lead and 5m VGA extender cable - that should cover it!

[dazzler9000]

Nice TV, I'd quite like one myself. They're a little expensive though at the moment.

Show us some pics when your finish.

[jt2k6]

YUMMY!!!

more pics please!


Watching with interest

Matt

[kudos2]

The whole house is still dusty from yesterdays chasing out, but I couldn't resist sliding it in place.

I'll be tile boarding the rest of the walls and floor tonight so I can get the bath in.

Kudos

[MarkP80]

Interesting to see, I haven't seen this type of install before. Thanks for sharing!

MarkP

[deansocial]

are you recessing it flush with the tiles or sat proud? The last 1 i fitted wa soupossed to be pround but we sat is flush with square section edging around it to create a chrome frame