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If you think it sounds like a Swiss Army Knife of electronics, you're right, it is! You're bidding on my used Audiovox Kitchen Entertainment Center. Yes, it does everything listed above. It doesn't do any of them exceptionally well, but that's not the point. The beauty of this contraption is all that it CAN do. TV, Movies, Music, Radio, Phone Calls, Time Checks ... the only thing it can't do is wash your dishes. So here's the thing ... I had this in my kitchen until a recent remodel forced it out. It works fine. It's a 10" flip-down, LCD wide-screen that tilts and swivels in any direction. It's a wide screen, but it's NOT high definition. Widescreen formatted DVD's look fine, but for regular TV programming it can be set to normal 4:3 display so the image isn't oddly "stretched".
Speaking of TV - this
system has a 125 channel cable-ready tuner built in, with an RF
connector. If you must use a cable or satellite box, it has standard
A/V composite inputs as well. Of course there's an AM/FM radio with digital tuning and presets, along with a speakerphone that mutes the program source volume automatically during incoming calls. Oh yeah, there's a clock - but everything has a clock. The picture quality is pretty good, the viewing angle is not that great, but the tilt / swivel screen let's you optimize that easily. The audio quality is on the tinny side, but loud enough to hear over the buzzing and whirring of the microwave, dishwasher, running water, etc. This does exactly what it's intended to do - casual viewing and listening while you multitask around the kitchen. It's not the kind of thing you would pull up a chair and a bowl of popcorn to watch. It's pretty easy to install, but keep in mind you have to plug it in and run a lot of cables, phone wires, etc. That's where I ran into some trouble with this. There was no outlet nearby so I had to run the cord up to the top of my cabinet. In doing so I had to cut the power cord to fish the wire through some small drilled holes. I've safely re-attached the cord and it works fine - I'm just mentioning it so you know what you may need to do to hide the wires. There is also one other undocumented feature of this unit. If you are so inclined - using some basic tools and a little patience, you can detach the LCD screen and mount it on the top side of the cabinet to create a nice desktop entertainment system with a TV screen that flips up, rather than down! I haven't tried this, but the mounting panels are there and I've read the screen automatically reorients itself for desktop operation when you install it on the other side.
The unit is in nice shape. You can see
the actual item in the photos below. I have the remote control, the
under-cabinet mounting hardware and the manual. I do NOT have the
original box.
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Audiovox
VE-1020
