We purchased the Bush Internet Portable Television two years ago for the meagre sum of £99. We were only after a portable TV for the bedroom at the time but this was in the same price range as other models with the added feature of Internet access so as that rather irritating advert says, "Why pay the same for less?"

Setting up the television appears to be easy. According to the step-by-step instructions simply plug in the hoop aerial, plug into the wall and use the remote to "auto find" the five terrestrial channels available. Now here is were the real fun starts. Perhaps, it is area in which we live but the television only finds four channels and even then puts them in the wrong order. Re-arranging them is a complex process of using the on-screen menu system combined with "smart keys" which are similar to fasttext keys being red, green yellow and blue. Unfortunately, the smart keys are not very smart. Rather than one key being for one function you have to use all four keys in various combinations to swap channels round and even then finding how to store them can lead to you resetting the whole lot.

The remote control has a flip top lid that opens up to reveal a fully functional QWERTY keyboard beneath it. However, these keys are small and as such great care must be taken when in use (no use touch-typing). I have actually found the best way to use this keyboard is to use the end of a ballpoint pen. Of course the QWERTY keyboard is only of use for the Internet function. The Internet is perhaps the only redeeming feature of this television. Plugging in the phone cable supplied into the back of the television and then into a phone point you are hooked up and ready to go. Pressing the large yellow button on the remote connects you to the Bush Internet page in which you sign up to your account via the usual online form. From here you are transferred to the Bush Internet homepage which has an email facility as well as a rudimentary search engine. The Internet function is an ideal way for your children to access the Internet, as it has no hard drive. As such there will be no viruses, adware or pornographic images flashing onto screen. Furthermore, the television is unable to display more than the most simple of images so flash images are not accessible. Even better the more, shall we say unsavoury sites are simply not connectable due to Bush's own built in filtering.

Back to the television itself. Do not drop the remote! Batteries fly out very easily and this renders it unusable as it loses synchronicity with the television. Retuning it to the televisions frequency is once again a complex process of multiple keys and even worse the channel buttons on the front of the tv do not work. The television picture is good and although not flatscreen its 14 inches are have good clarity with no blurring or ghosting in evidence after two years of solid use. Sound quality is sufficient if not spectacular although the decision to have speakers on the side of the helmet leads to a little echoing at higher volumes. A further problem is in the volume control itself. The gradients vary between ear piercingly loud or supersonic hearing level low. We tend to flit between the two depending on the nature of the programme (loud for soaps or anything with talking, low for sport/documentary).