Customer Reviews

Mintek DTV-263 26-Inch LCD TV/DVD Combo

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

Bought this for a bedroom unit. Was looking to maximize picture size within the intended space. Also wanted integrated DVD player so could literally hang it on the wall and be done. This unit fit the bill on all counts.

Summary:
Picture quality is great.
Sound quality nothing to get excited about.
Remote is pretty complicated (but typical).
Easily removed stand and hung on wall with VESA mount.
DVD player (motor) relatively loud while playing.
Integrated card reader (MemoryStick, etc.) is S-L-O-W; unusable, really, at least viewing images from my 5MP cam. No loss - was an interesting add-on.

Overall, quite pleased.

I bought this television from Amazon.com and was very excited after reading all the excellent reviews. However, I was very disappointed with the quality of the television and returned it for the following reason.

1) The DVD player was very loud and during quiet parts of the movie, all you could hear was the DVD player.
2) Changing the channel took forever! If you are a channel surfer (like me) this is not the right television for you.
3) The picture wasnt very good, in actuallity my old television had a better picture.

I would not recommend this product.

I bought this TV based on the reviews. I also read a bad review which I had the similar problem but I gave the TV the benefit of the doubt and that it will only happen with a small percentage of buyers; however, I fell into that percentage.

The problem I had is that while watching cable TV, it had white streaks that goes up the picture, sometimes the picture gets dark when you are watching a show, and it also had black streaks if you turn on the auto fine tune in the TV tuner setup.

For you people who think its my cable service, I replaced my WEGA TV (which has no problem at all) with the Mintek but still had the same problem.

I think the problem it that the TV tuner is bad or does not adapt well with my cable TV becuase when I watch DVD's the picture is excellent which leads to my title of this review.

Recommended for watching DVDs only. I guess Mintek worked hard on delivering the picture quality but forgot to work on the input device (TV tuner).

Sound is good enough for the bedroom.

After reading all the reviews below we decided to go ahead and purchase this TV to use out by our hot tub. The big sell was the TV/DVD Combo. When we are not using it outside, we use it in our bedroom. Yes, the channel changing is VERY SLOW, the remote seems cheap. The DVD is loud but only notice this when turning the TV on! The sound and picture are not excellent but they are pretty good. Also the cable plug on the bottom of the TV is not easily accesible.

We purchased a mintek dtv 26" 16 months ago from amazon.com- tech depot/office depot was the seller. We have had a few problems with it - and eventually fixed them but it took a long time with customer service. We purchased the lcd because we liked the flat screen tv/dvd combination and because the price is very attractive. It's a decent TV picture, good movie picture. Changing channels is slow and using the built in dvd is a little challenging. After 90 days with our first tv we liked it enough to purchase a 2nd set. Our second mintek dtv 26" immediately failed and we called customer service for a replacement. After 60 days, many phone calls and emails, and having to put our credit card down as a full deposit, we did get our replacement. That tv/dvd worked for about 30 days and then it failed. It took us 1/2 year to get a new replacement, 20 calls to customer service, many emails, etc.. The 2nd replacement just arrived and it doesn't work (dvd player is broken) so now we are on our 3rd replacement in less than a year. The mintek is great if it works and it's horrible when it doesn't because the customer service department is very disorganized. If we could return both sets for something else we would do so. Pay the extra money and get something that works.

I bought the television the other day. I was amazed! I hung it on the wall and fired it up. It looks wonderful! Colors are rich and vibrant. The sound system is very good (I hung this in the bedroom). The DVD player works well. The remote is well layed out but does not have a backlight feature. The box includes a stand and multiple componet wires. The stand comes off and it hangs nicely on the wall with a standard 100mm VESA mounting bracket.
This is an amazing television for the price. You will not be disappointed.

I received this TV a few days ago and have been very pleased with it. The picture is great and the styling looks beautiful. It mounted very easily with a 100m VESA standard mount.

I am very satisfied with my purchase. I would agree with the Cons some people have posted (cheapish remote, slow card reader, and loud DVD operation), but the good far outweigh the bad. If I could, I would give it 4.5/5.

I purchased this in the 32" DVD lcd tv/dvd combo from QVC after they raved about the unsurpassed picture quality, etc.

Well, the picture quality is good for a DVD. But hooked up to digital satellite TV receiver (dish network) the picture quality is abysmal, regardless of which picture setting/ratio you choose. My old tube TVs were lightyears better and after comparing the pictures side by side, I couldn't see the point of keeping a TV that would give me a much poorer picture quality than the old fashioned tube TV that cost hundreds less.

I can't understand what Mintek, or QVC for that matter were thinking when they put this TV out there. I really felt cheated that something i was told was superior was actually so much fuzzier and worse.

If you intend to only watch DVDs, this set is fine. The picture quality is excellent. but for TV viewing, I found it unacceptable.

The sound was okay.

The remote was poor. I found it difficult to use, and for a while there were some functions I couldn't figure out.

The cables that came with the set didn't quite match the parts description or assembly instructions either.Looks like they ran out and substituted.

The biggest issue though was the picture quality from the TV imput. Since it was already a digital signal, I can't figure out how they could mangle it so completely between digital sat receiver and the TV. That was the deal breaker, though the clunky remote was not a strong selling point either.

Fortunately the shipping to was free and the shipping back only 20$, so I wasn't out much for trying this TV. But it was a headache packing it up to ship back and taking it to the UPS delivery store, and I would far rather have been satisfied with it. Disconcerting when supposedly improved technology is worse than the old.

We bought this Mintek unit about a year ago, and while there was some initial quality control concerns - the first unit shipped without a remote or power cable, the company (eventually) rectified it.

However the unit itself is very competent. The picture is good, and who cares about the speed of changing channels (reported as a shortcoming by other reviews)? You will undoubtadly use a cable box as input, which will be the bottleneck for channel chaning speed.

I like the VGA and DVI cable inputs, both of which I have used with my laptop sucessfully. Makes a great "slideshow" panel for your digital photos. The sounds is not great, but again, we use it as a viewing device, and route the sound through a real amplifier/speaker system.

The DVD picture is great (no analog/digital translation) and its one less component to worry about and wire. The buttons and general interface make sense, which is a compliment in this world of incomprehensible UI decisions. The USB interface is too slow to be truly convenient, but again we use the laptop to show photos. Overall quite happy with this Mintek.

What can I say, the picture quality is fantastic & it has a built-in DVD player. I hung it on the wall by taking off the base and using a standard universale mounting bracket. I hooked it up to my TIVO unit in 2 minutes. The DVD player has the controls directly on the TV or on the remote. talking about the remote, it is the one thing that I am dissapointed in, so far I have been unable to find a universal remote control that will control this TV/DVD Combo. I guess Mintek has not paid off the remote control companies. I hope you enjoy this TV as much as I do.