Coby TF-TV700 7-Inch Portable LCD TV/Monitor

by Coby

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 1 x 5 inches ; 7.6 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EIED4W
• Item model number: TF-TV700
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,022 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

7" TFT LCD TV/Monitor

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

91 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What were they thinking?, April 14, 2006

By 

Akilah (Los Angeles, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coby TF-TV700 7-Inch Portable LCD TV/Monitor (Electronics)

The Coby 7" has a nice bright screen, good reception, and is lightweight. It is also one of the strangest and most useless products I've ever seen.

The screen is 16:9 format. Analog TV (which is what this tv receives) is 4:3, as are many (perhaps all) devices that produce a signal over an AV composite cable -- VCR's, digital cameras and video games. One would assume there would be a setting to switch to 4:3 mode as there is in every other 16:9 TV (I have two of them).

Guess what? Coby doesn't have a 4:3 setting! So when you watch TV everything is squished. Everyone is a short, fat dwarf. What exactly was Coby thinking when designing this?

I phoned the Coby support line to find out if the aspect ratio could be changed. They said "no." I asked if they realized that made their product completely useless. They said that this was a "design feature."

There is only one silver lining: J&R Electronics took my return with no questions and no grumbling. I liked doing business with them.

The magnitude of this oversight is unbelievable, truly staggering. Caveat emptor...

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Coby electronics brand, April 8, 2006

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Houston REDD (HOUSTON, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Coby TF-TV700 7-Inch Portable LCD TV/Monitor (Electronics)

This item deserves ZERO stars. After many attempts to activate this TV, the picture never appeared. It's a piece of junk! Don't buy it!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great little monitor/TV, November 9, 2006

By 

J. Walters (MI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coby TF-TV700 7-Inch Portable LCD TV/Monitor (Electronics)

I was skeptical after reading other reviews but boy,... was I surprised. The negative comments posted prior to this must have been written by some fairly narrow minded folks. Yes the display is 16:9, but that is advertised! The tuner works great. If the signal sucks to start with no TV tuner is going to make it look great. Anyway, when the 7" TV/Monitor arrived I was very pleased with quality of the video display. I compared the picture by sitting the unit beside a 19" LCD Panasonic, using the same video source, and quite honestly the color saturation, clarity, contrast and hue were virtually identical. Its primary function is as a security camera adjustment monitor with occasional 'TV' use when traveling. There are well over a dozen video displays in my home ranging from 1 1/4" BW pocket portable to a 10' HD home theatre so there is plenty of material for comparison. I must say the Colby 7" TV is well above average in it's usefulness and functionality. I liked the unit enough that I just ordered a second one through Amazon to give to my father for Christmas!