Apex PF2720 27" Flat-Screen Stereo TV

by Apex

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 114 pounds
• Shipping: This item can only be shipped to the 48 contiguous states. We regret it cannot be shipped to APO/FPO, Hawaii, Alaska, or Puerto Rico.
• ASIN: B0000CAPT1
• Item model number: PF2720
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #313,826 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The 27-inch Apex PF2720 uses a Pure Flat picture tube, which not only looks cool compared to a conventional, bulbous screen, but also provides a high-quality, high-contrast picture owing to the screen's ability to reduce reflected ambient light. It has a 4:3 aspect ratio, three-line digital comb filter, and S-video and component-video inputs for optimal connection to your DVD player.

It has a built-in 181-channel tuner and two stereo speakers on either side of the front of the silver cabinet. Its three-line digital comb filter helps to separate the color signals from the black and white, providing a higher resolution, or sharper, picture. It has three picture modes (normal, theater, memory) and four sound modes (speech, music, theater, memory) that let you customize the set for different uses. Other features include a sleep timer, parental controls, and side A/V input for gaming consoles or other components.

For connections, the PF2720 offers 4 composite A/V inputs (1 side, 3 rear), 2 S-video inputs, 1 component-video input, and 1 RF input.

Tech Talk
Aspect ratio: The aspect ratio refers to the shape of the video image. Standard television has a 4:3 aspect ratio, which is almost square in appearance. Digital television will have either a 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratio, which is widescreen and appears rectangular, looking more like a movie screen and filling more of the viewer's field of vision for a more lifelike viewing experience.

What's in the Box
This package contains the Apex PF2720 27-inch TV, remote control, 2 AA batteries, and printed instructions.

From the Manufacturer

Enjoy your favorite movies, sporting events, TV shows, and more with this 27-inch flat-screen TV from Apex, which offers a wide viewing angle and crisp picture.

Features include:

• Pure flat picture tube
• Universal remote control
• MTS stereo sound (5 watts x 2)
• 3-line digital comb filter
• Component video input
• S-video input
• Rear AV input
• Side AV input
• Rear AV output
• 3 picture modes (normal, theater, personal)
• 4 sound modes (speech, music, theater, personal)
• 181-channel tuner
• Trilingual OSD (English, Spanish, French)
• Closed caption display
• V-chip parental control
• Sleep timer
• Channel recall
• Channel scan

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good value for the money, April 11, 2004

By 

G. Wolfe "avidgamefan" (FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Apex PF2720 27" Flat-Screen Stereo TV (Electronics)

Like most consumer sets, it needs a bit of setup. The contrast was set to 100 from the factory but needs to be set much, much lower to prevent distortion. Turn off the auto black level adjustment, and turn on warm color temperature, for DVD viewing. Once adjusted, the picture looks great, better than a similarly-priced set I bought only a few years ago. The flat screen is a great feature at this price point -- it does seem to reduce reflections. The resolution seems very good -- DVDs looked great. I have the feeling you could get a better picture, but at this price range, I feel that it's very good, and it probably would be considered good by anyone except perhaps by hard-core home theater enthusiasts. (I hope that is sufficient hedging! :-) )

At the risk of contradicting the description -- my unit only has 1 S-video input, as far as I can tell.

The only real complaint I have is that when you use the squished "wide" mode, there are horizontal colored lines just above the viewing area (within the top black bar). If I can get past that, this seems like a great feature that I hope to make use of!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good but has some issues, June 12, 2004

By 

Tony "ax4u" (Kew Gardens, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Apex PF2720 27" Flat-Screen Stereo TV (Electronics)

The TV has a nice menu and colors look vivid. There is only 1 S Video input. However there are two issues with this TV. First, when in compressed widescreen mode, there is a visible gray horizontal line right above the viewable area that stretches across the entire screen. Second, the corners of the TV suffer from blurriness. The blurriness is most noticible when displaying text. This may be an issue for you if you like to watch DVDs with a lot of subtitles or watch shows which have a lot of text like Bloomberg Financial TV.