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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Nice TV, January 6, 2009
My sister bought one of these for use in Yakima, WA.
Pro:
1) Nice picture, especially HD. Yakima has HD broadcast channels I didn't know about, and they look great.
2) Audio better than I expected with a small TV like this. My dad is hard of hearing, but I was able to boost the treble and roll off the bass via the menu, and he can hear much better than with the old set.
3) Reception good on digital channels. Rabbit ears antenna from old tv works fine, though this house has really good reception, so you may need a better antenna if you are in a poor reception area.
Cons:
1) Remote control gets the job done, but it's a little hard to find the mute button for commercials. The on-set controls would be a pain to use, like most tvs, so don't lose the remote.
2) A 22 inch diagonal wide-screen tv is really pretty small -- especially when displaying a 4:3 program. Ideal viewing distance is probably around 6 to 8 feet or less.
3) Reception and picture poor on the old analog channels, but they are going away next month, so who cares?
Caveat: Shop around -- we got this set at Costco for about [...] less than the price I see at Amazon, though the picture at Amazon shows a wider base than the one we have. I double-checked the model, VO22L, but maybe there is some mixup?
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
No regrets in buying this, January 14, 2009
CONSPIRACY! Are all HDTV's required to have crappy, tinny sound like a full-treble, no-bass radio to get consumers to buy surround sound systems for it? Probably.
I bought this TV in particular because aside from the low price which impressed me very much, it had a deal-breaker for me; speedy remote control.
Despite the vast advances in technology these days, TV technology seems to be backtracking, as a 10 year old Philips Magnavox POS TV I've had for ten years has superior quality sound to this TV, and has a faster-responding remote to most TV's these days.
I could not handle a TV that takes 3-5 seconds just loading every damn channel, and so I picked this one because the response time is often times only 1 second maximum. So the biggest value here comes in fast remote respond time.
It is indeed HD and it's small with a large screen, so considering the price it is, it's a good value.
My only complaints aside from the sound is that it appears to have some difficulty regarding some widescreening and HD compatibility:
- There are only two widescreen options: fullscreen and widescreen (or panoramic, which does almost nothing). As such, it seems completely incapable of adjusting itself for watching a widescreen DVD by zooming the picture in on top of the black bars, and you can either watch the image stretched out needlessly with gigantic black bars on top or bottom, or watch a super small image with FOUR black bars---two on the sides as well.
I hope this was just an issue with my DVD player and not something that affects all DVD players with pan n scan abilities. It didn't have this problem when watching a DVD on my Xbox360.
- There's only one row of HD compatible wires. Anyone who knows how to plug in an HD device into the TV knows that aside from SD's yellow-white-red wire configuration, the HD equivalent has green-red-blue added on to the white and red for audio. This TV only has one row of them for use, so I can only have one HD device plugged into the TV at one time. This isn't a big deal.
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
great picture, but is terrible for watching movies, January 18, 2009
This has a great picture, but has some annoying problems. First of all, if you connect it directly to a coaxial cable wire, you cannot channel surf. The channel up and down will not work on the remote or the TV. You must enter the channel from the remote numeric keyboard. This might not seem as annoying as it really is.
Also, it connects as a component with the three RCA jacks when connected to a VCR or cable box, not through the coaxial cable from the VCR or box, so be sure to use the manual when you set it up.
Those two seem to be easily overcome, but the wide angle problem described by the other reviewer totally stinks!!! Whenever you watch movies from On Demand or whatever, the black bars drive you crazy. What is up with that!!! You get slight black bars on other TVs but this is extreme and does not seem to be able to be remedied. You get 3 choices. With Wide you get large black bars. With Panoramic, you do a little better, but not much. With Normal, it is absolutely ridiculous, because you get a little tiny picture in the middle of the screen, with no way of enlarging it that I can tell. It's like watching a 10" screen.
If you are using this as a computer monitor, it's great; but if you are using it as a TV and you plan on watching movies, and/or if you plan to hook it up directly to cable with a coaxial cable, buy something else!!!
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