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I've got a little Panasonic portable that will become pretty useless as a TV come February. We felt the effects of hurricane Katrina up here in MS. And the little battery TV came in handy. Cable was not an option at the time, as the lines were blown down. Thank the Lord analog was still on! We also have an inverter that runs on a car battery that was used during Katrina. That option might be the best one as you can plug a converter and a small (13" or so) TV into it. There are also converters on the market that run off a wall wart power supply. It wouldn't be too hard to rig up a battery pack to run such converters. Of course, it would be a little sloppy having the converter and it's connecting cables connected to a battery operated portable TV. I'm sure there will be portable DTV's on the market; but, I don't like being forced into buying something. My 1978 Panasonic portable works just as good now as it did 30 years ago and it will probably go another 30 years, provided I could still use it! Well, I know it will never get used as a true protable again.
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