Just received my Novel today, I'm impressed. The default language for the unit is German, but even so, it proved reasonably simple to change to English and get set up. I bought it to use in the kitchen, rather than as a take anywhere with me TV, though I did buy it to replace a very old pocket telly. The sound apparently does drain the battery when it's loud, as I read on another review. I did buy a cheap 2.1 speaker set up to use with it, but found when I connected it up to the audio output socket, the output wasn't very loud, so had to use the headphone socket instead, which produced a better output for the speakers, as well as cutting out the TV's speakers too.