August DA100D 10.1" Portable Freeview HD TV with Recorder & Media Player

I purchased this small TV to replace an old 4:3 format 10" one by a different manufacturer that I used in my workshop and had developed a problem with its sound system. Knowing how useless the supplied aerials have been with other digital TVs, I re-used the indoor aerial that I had connected to my faulty TV and connected it to the TV before connecting the power supply and switching it on. The installation process was simple to follow and the scanning process picked up all the channels. The picture was surprisingly clear, though given the size, it was no surprise to find the sound a bit tinny. I used a USB memory stick to try a scheduled recording. The process wasn't obvious, but following the instructions in the supplied manual it was reasonably straight forward. I checked the result on the TV and it worked well. I then moved the memory stick to my main computer which has a 24" monitor and was able to confirm that the recording was good. I really wanted to score it 4.5 stars. There are two let-downs. The remote requires a good solid press on the buttons and there is a lag in response so it tends to feel unresponsive. Secondly, the menu system appears to have a logic all its own and will take a bit of getting used to before I'll be able to discard the manual. I have still to try recording to and viewing files from a USB hard drive. For the price it represents good value and is a nice little TV with the ability to record programmes directly or by scheduling.

I decided to buy this TV after not having a working TV for several months. Plugged into the mains I got no image or any sound using either of the two aerials packed with the TV. Just a black screen and silence. Once my rooftop aerial lead was plugged in I got a screen asking if I wanted English language - I pressed OK. I was asked if I wanted to install and I pressed OK. Got lots of channels when the TV had scanned and they had the same freeview numbers as shown in the newspaper. GREAT picture and reasonable sound. I pressed the remote to increase the sound and there was sufficient for me. Wearing one set of headphones I found the sound was too soft - I don't mean quiet, I mean not just sharp enough. With another set of headphones I found the sound was ok. I can't wear the type of head phone push-ins that came with the TV as they drop out of my ears. Took me a while to realise that pressing TV/R changes the TV from TV channels to Radio channels and pressed again reverts back to TV channels. Pressing INFO while a channel is showing gives me the channel number, name, start/end times of program showing and start/end times of program next in line. Not too sure about all the other things this set does. When I press Menu I get a list to choose different things - Digital TV, Movies, Music, Photo, Games and Disk Manager. I have yet to work out what these do. I need to investigate about a portable hard disc to record programs on to. Perhaps the one I have already will work. What I have noticed which are not properly visible on illustrations on the page are the ten buttons across the top of the tv (hidden from the front view). These are On/Off, Menu, Left/fast Left, Right/fast Right, Enter, Channel Down/Left, Channel Up/Right, Volume -, Volume +, and Mode. I was a bit worried about losing the remote and being unable to even turn the TV on. The remote is a bit cheap looking. It is very thin and uses just one flat C battery. At first I found it hard to get the buttons to work but I persevered. I am really glad the TV has buttons too as I think I will be pressing the remote buttons too hard and these things don't last when you do that. I have yet to try out the RED BUTTON channel 0200. The coloured buttons on the remote have white writing on them which makes the yellow one hard to read. I think it says Move. Red = ZOOM. Green = FAV. Yellow = MOVE. Blue = LOCK. Not sure what Move and Lock are all about. The TV weighs practically the same as my Kindle Fire without its leather case. It will be no problem to carry from room to room or upstairs etc. I just have to find a decent aerial or pay for more roof aerial extensions. The Manual is quite good, the front cover up to and including page 23 are the English pages. The typescript is small. To use off the mains the manual says you get 2.5 hrs with 6 rechargeable AA batteries. Note. I did notice as I was experimenting something about 16.9 so it might be that you can change the screen size when necessary. All in all I am very pleased with it just need to find a portable aerial that works. Ps. I forgot to mention that in the manual it gives details for locking certain channels and applying passwords, parental locks and all that.

We bought this TV for our kitchen, needed something nice and small that would fit under the units without paying the earth for the flip down TV's. What a great little unit. The picture quality for such a small item is excellent. It's also very neat and tidy and the supplied bracket, although not folding in the sense of the flip down TV's, is certainly quite flexible in the way it can be mounted. We turned the bracket upside down and screwed it to the bottom of the cupboards - looks fine. Saying that a VESA mount would have been much more useful, especially when you can get a VESA flip down bracket for about £30. The sound quality is perfectly reasonable for the sort of use and the USB and Card reader is a real bonus. Why only a 4? Well it does look a little cheap, especially the remote and the supplied aerial, other than in a perfect position, is pretty useless for Freeview, but connecting to the house aerial system over came this minor difficulty and we had expected it. So all in all a very good unit. It does exactly what we wanted and for £130 we can't really fault it.

For a long time I have been wishing I had a small TV for my kitchen so I can watch my favourite programmes, as they are broadcast, whilst washing up and tidying up, etc. but it needed to be small enough to sit on top of my microwave oven, which is on the worktop under a wall unit. My laptop is too tall, and my phone is too small so I cannot really watch TV on either of them. Then, four days before setting off to Cornwall, to care for my uncle for 3 weeks, I decided to Google 10" TVs, not really expecting to find anything. I make the 300 miles journey to Cornwall every 2-3 months, but I really miss my favourite TV programmes when I'm there. My 88 years old uncle only has one TV in his house now. He is profoundly deaf as a result of WW2 injuries (even with two hearing aids), and he has the TV on full volume. It is so loud that I can't sit in the same room when it is on, as it hurts my ears. Also, he flicks channels, not really watching anything - and he certainly doesn't watch 'my programmes'! In the past, when with him, I've tried to watch TV on my laptop/phone, and on Catch-up, but internet and mobile coverage in his part of Cornwall are almost non existent. So, I took a chance and ordered this dinky TV (on a Thursday), even though I had never heard of the brand or the manufacturer. I hoped for next day delivery, with Prime, but the following Monday was given as the delivery date. I also ordered the carrying case, and the 12v car charger. Their delivery date was the Saturday. As I was travelling on the Monday I thought I would miss the delivery of the TV at home, so I arranged for local pick up in Cornwall. Then, on the Saturday, I got a message to say all three items had been delivered to my local pick up place in Cornwall. They were all in the same packaging, and I was quite disappointed that I'd missed two days of having the TV. I collected it on the Monday evening, as soon as I arrived in Cornwall, and I set it up immediately. I didn't read the instructions first, as advised - I just plugged the TV into the mains, plugged the tiny DTV aerial into it, started automatic tuning with the remote control unit, and hey presto. I am absolutely thrilled with it.... so much so that I rang my sister to show it to her on a video call and she ordered one the next day. The TV comes with lots of accessories (cables) and, as well as running on mains electricity, and a 12v car charger, it also runs on six rechargeable AA batteries. I haven't tried it on batteries yet, as they are somewhat expensive and I don't need them at the present time. It could be worse though; at least the batteries it needs are rechargeable, and battery operation is a handy option to have. Oh, and I should mention that the 3-pin part of the adapter plug is detachable, and can be replaced with the European 2-pin part (supplied). The picture, upstairs at my uncles house in Cornwall, is excellent. The sound is a bit tinny, but that doesn't bother me. Also the remote control buttons feel a bit spongy to me (I think they are rubber/silicone) and I have to press them quite hard to change channels. My sister's TV also works well upstairs at our mother's house on the Wales/Shropshire border, but neither of us can get a picture downstairs in these rural locations. We might need to get booster aerials but, again, that does not bother me as we want them for upstairs use in these two locations. I'm confident that my TV will work up and downstairs at home, as I live in a good reception area, and my two 19" TVs work well on indoor aerials. I was delighted when I saw this TV, and excited to receive it. Now, I am so happy that I bought it, and thrilled that it is small enough for me to take it with me wherever I go. PLEASE NOTE: The shoulder strap in my picture of the TV's accessories (shown folded) did NOT come with this TV. It came with the August Travel Case for 10" TV, and 9/10" Tablets - which I bought at the same time. Apologies for my mistake!

This is an excellent product for the price. The picture is very good for its size, with an easy to use menu system, and the mini HDMI allows external devices to be connected. I connected a Roku Stick to this which is also powered off the USB port. It's likely that you'll need to connect an external aerial to this, but that's the same with most digital televisions. I was able to receive all the Freeview channels with the supplied telescopic aerial, but I'm close to the transmitter and the signal still dropped out in certain parts of the house. There were no problems with reception using an external aerial, or indeed using the television outside using with the supplied aerial. Only thing that could really be improved is better spacing between the aerial, USB and mini-HDMI ports on the right side as you'll need the right cables if you want to use them all at the same time. It would also be great if this could be offered with a battery pack that can be recharged in situ, as whilst the television can be powered off rechargeable AA-sized batteries, they need to be removed to be recharged and of course you'll also need to carry around a charger as well.

I have barely used this over the 17 months I have owned it. Maybe a total of approx 5-10 hours use over the 17 months due to selling previous camper. Since doing a new camper van up, I wanted to start using it more more frequently as we stayed in the van this winter. Unfortunately the picture no longer works. There are a series of colourful lines that run through the screen. I have tried it with both 12v and 240v supply cables and it is nothing to do with signal as the problem occurs in the menu screens and the 'August' logo screen when you turn it on. It is now past its warranty. I definitely don't feel it has been worth the money to only last that long. If you want a tv that stays working past the warranty then avoid this one. Prior to it being useless, the picture quality was good, but the menus were very dated and the EPG didn't seem to work very well. Go for something better....

Initially, Digital Daffodil sent me the wrong model (the discontinued DA100C), but they quickly sent out the correct model DA100D. After fully testing the unit for quality, connection and compatibility performance, I can confirm this is an excellent product. Picture quality on SD Freeview channels is clean and sharp; this improves even further with Freeview HD channels. Sound quality is very good for a unit of this size - it is crisp and has plenty volume. Headphone output is satisfactory, but there should be more volume. On initial set up, all available channels from my local transmitter were successfully installed, using the supplied telescopic aerial. If you live in a strong coverage area you should experience no problems with reception. I connected my PC HDMI out to this unit's HDMI in and it displays the picture perfectly, so you can use it as a computer monitor, i.e. for a Raspberry Pi, or as a monitor for a digital camera. I have tested USB media playback and this unit will accept an NTFS formatted USB stick. I successfully played back a number of file types, i.e. MKV 1080p and MP4 720/1080p, WMV, AVI, etc and these play back fine, with no lag or picture break up. I did experience playback issues when connecting an external portable HDD and SSD, so I would recommend playing back files from a USB stick. The remote control is an improvement over the last model, but could do with being even bigger for ease of use. Digital Teletext loads very quickly and is very clear. Screen resolution is 1024x600 - ample for a screen of this size - as mentioned earlier, Freeview HD channels look particularly good. Connectivity as this price point is excellent - there's even a standard tripod mounting thread and bracket holes for wall mounting. This is a massive improvement on the previous model and I highly recommend it.

It is a nice compact portable TV with the right connections, USB, Micro SD (cannot be used for recording though) and a HDMI IN. The image picture quality is OK for a small portable The telescopic aerial might as well be left out of the box, as I found that next to useless USER Interface needs to be updated by August. Looks very 2000. Things have moved on. 12 Volt car adapter not included. For this price it darn well should be. EPG very cumbersome, it is 2018, not 1995. This needs to be massively improved. PVR is a hit and miss affair hence the 3 stars from me. This is the biggest bug bare on most review sites and forums and one which August has still not managed to address and resolve for its many customers. It is a software issue they need to get the grips with. I am trying to find out under what circumstances the PVR works and does not work. My finds so far show... If you record via the clumsy EPG guide and then turn off the TV with the TV not set to the channel you wish to record then it fails. I know it should switch to that channel you have marked for recording and record, but I have not found that to be the case. Also if you wish to record a number of programmes, the PVR might not work. I tried a number of multi recordings and then set the TV to the channel of the first recording before turning off. You are then in the lap of the gods. Sometimes it recorded just the first and sometime some of the others. It seems to be switching between what they call MULTIPLEXES, the channels used for the delivery of the signals when you scan. I think they run from 21 - 69. Anyway when a company advertises PVR then it should deliver a PVR, not a POOR example of one. Even basic Freeview TVs and portables with a USB port and advertised PVR manage to get it right, why can't August? August do need to address what clearly is a major issue with their portable TVs. They advertise them with PVRs which rarely work. Due to this, they get 3 star. This weekend I will be testing the HDMI In and will update here of my findings along with any other issues i find from August Poor software use of the PVR function. HDMI worked fine. I plugged in a FREESAT box and the HDMI worked great to be able to use my portable sat dish with a great little EGP and a PVR that actually worked beautifully. August sort out your PVR. Manual is poor.