Top critical review
3.0 out of 5 starsOK for the money, turns on by itself, headphone jack on BACK.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2012
I bought this unit about a year ago to replace a dead CRT type TV that we'd been using in our kitchen.
It works fine, and has an acceptable picture, plus the price was good, especially with free prime shipping.
The only somewhat bizarre characteristic I've noted is that the unit often turns itself on when we turn on the lights in our kitchen!! We've got a track lighting system with five compact fluorescent lamps installed. The pulsations from the lamps, at start-up, must simulate the IR pattern that the remote control sensor uses for the "on" command! At first, we thought the darned thing was just coming on at random, but then it became obvious that whenever this happened, it was always associated with having turned the Kitchen lights on.
The TV takes quite a while to turn on (or off) after giving it the command, so that's why it wasn't obvious immediately that it was switching on the lights that was turning the TV on.
Another somewhat annoying design issue is that the jack to accept headphones is on the back of the TV with the other connectors. When someone wants to watch without bothering someone else, they have to pull the TV out to them, turn it around, and then find the little jack to plug the headphones in. It would be enormously easier if the jack was on the front as it almost always is on other TVs. And using an extension cable doesn't solve the problem because plugging the 'phones into the jack disconnects the speaker, and unplugging them reconnects it. And that's an important feature since the whole point of using the headphones is to silence the on-TV speaker. So that is something that's proven to be an issue for our purposes. If you never intend to use the headphone jack, then having it on the back won't be of any consequence.
