Customer Reviews

Initial DTV-232 23-Inch HD-Ready LCD TV/DVD Combo , Silver

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I received this as a gift from my brother last Christmas. My wife and I have it in our bedroom for evening viewing. Some evenings we just shut down the house and tuck into the bedroom for quiet viewing and relaxing.

The tv is nice looking. Right out of the box it was easy to set up and once you read the instructions one time the controls are easy. When switching from one format to another, like dvd to tuner, you have to choose the format from a button on the remote and quickly push your selection, otherwise the menu disappears within seconds.

You can adjust the picture from standard box format to wide screen to cinema. We use standard tv width most of the time and switch to widescreen for dvd's. Another cool thing is I read closed captioning and you can change the background of the closed caption from black to clear, so it barely interrupts with the picture.

When playing DVD's there's a soft wooshing sound from the internal player, once you switch back to tuner the sound is gone. Not too annoying since the movie is usually louder than the fan noise.

One thing we didn't like too much is the power supply is three pronged, and our bedroom is two pronged outlets. We converted one wall socket to accomodate the plug but wished it would have just been two pronged. Another thing: the cord to the large power supply "brick" is about two feet of cable from the tv. So, we have the tv on a tall bureau, and the power supply hangs and pulls on the cable and I'm afraid eventually it will wear out the plug from the weight.

We both love this tv and use it nearly every night. Picture is beautiful and it plays dvd's perfectly. One other small gripe is as with most multifunction tv's it's hard to find an all in one remote to control the cable box, built in tv tuner, dvd player, and tv controls.

We're probably going to get ourselves the 32" Initial for Christmas for the living room and replace our 27" Sony CRT tv. It's amazing how much more space the lcd's give you over CRT's.

This is a good investment. Highly recommended!