A handheld television is a portable device for watching television that usually uses a TFT LCD or OLED and Cathode-ray tube Color television display. Many of these devices resemble handheld .
Later in 1982, Sony released their first model - the FD-200, which was introduced as “Flat TV” later renamed after the nickname Sony Watchman, a play on the word Walkman. It had grayscale video at first. Several years later, a color model with an active-matrix LCD was released. Some integrate a television receiver, although Internet broadband video is far more common.
Since the switch-over to digital broadcasting, handheld TVs have reduced in size and improved in quality. Portable TV was eventually brought to digital TV with DVB-H, although it didn't see much success.
Some include HDMI, USB and Secure Digital ports.
Screen sizes vary from . Some handheld televisions also double as portable and USB personal video recorders.
Pocket televisions fit in a pocket.
Wearable televisions sometimes are made in the form of a wristwatch.
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