Cheap 32" HD LCD

[G_F]

http://www.dabs.com/productview.aspx?quicklinx=4c4w


£363.36 inc vat, Delivered.

Panel Size :32"TFT (Active Matrix)
Aspect Ratio :16: 9
Resolution :1366 x 768 (WXGA)
Pixel Pitch :0.51 x 0.51 mm
Display Colors :16.7M
Brightness (cd/m2) :500cd/m2
Contrast Ratio :1200 : 1
Response time :8ms
Viewing Angle, H/V :176 degree(H) / 176 degree(V)
TV system:PAL, SECAM
Video Signal :TV,YPbPr,HDMI,VGA,SCART1, SCART2,Video,S-Video
Audio Signal :RCA Audio In(L/R), headphone Out
Internal Speaker :Stereo Speaker (8Wx2)
OSD language :English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian
Other Feature :Support DE-interlace, NICAM, 10 pages Teletext, Aspect ratio adjustment, 3D Comb Filter, noise reduction
Remote Control:Yes
Power Supply :AC 100~240V 50/60Hz
Power Consumption :Working 200W(Max),Standby 4W
Net Weight :16.7 kg
Monitor Dimension (WxHxD mm) :813 x 645 x 240mm
Carton Dimension (WxHxD mm) :913 x 735 x 263 mm
Regulation Safety&EMI:CE

 

[Griff]

The words you get what you pay for suddenly spring to mind.

 

[Adam K]

The words you get what you pay for suddenly spring to mind.

for a bedroom i expect it's fine.

 

[Rasclart]

Just out of curiosity what is the difference between having a TV in a bedroom or lounge?

IMO there is none, crap is crap whatever room its in.

 

[Adam K]

Just out of curiosity what is the difference between having a TV in a bedroom or lounge?

IMO there is none, crap is crap whatever room its in.

if i have a tv in my room i wouldn't be inclined to spend the best part of a grand which is the kind of price i'd look at paying if it was in my lounge.

 

[McBunny]

550 gets you a 32" tosh that looks good in lounge or bedroom

 

[Rasclart]

Just out of curiosity what is the difference between having a TV in a bedroom or lounge?

IMO there is none, crap is crap whatever room its in.

if i have a tv in my room i wouldn't be inclined to spend the best part of a grand which is the kind of price i'd look at paying if it was in my lounge.

Yeah but why, if you live at home in a single room. Ultimately that is your lounge, unless you have a tiny box of a room where distance is an issue then to me it makes no difference.

Hence why I have a Panasonic and not a cheap TV, I can see the point if you have your own, place. I move out 1st March and will buy the cheapest 20" I can lay my hands on for the bedroom. Only cause I now will have a lounge

 

[Adam K]

if i have a tv in my room i wouldn't be inclined to spend the best part of a grand which is the kind of price i'd look at paying if it was in my lounge.

Yeah but why, if you live at home in a single room. Ultimately that is your lounge, unless you have a tiny box of a room where distance is an issue then to me it makes no difference.

Hence why I have a Panasonic and not a cheap TV, I can see the point if you have your own, place. I move out 1st March and will buy the cheapest 20" I can lay my hands on for the bedroom. Only cause I now will have a lounge

personally in my bedroom i have the 24" dell 2407, which was the best part of £600 when i bought it, so no, i wouldn't buy crap if i lived with my parents and my bedroom was my lounge. i was more implying that if i owned my own house and had a nice tv in the lounge then i'd go for a cheaper tv in the bedroom.

 

[Rasclart]

I see sorry

 

[cli0 172]

42" LCD wall mounted in the bedroom is the way forward .....

 

[Rasclart]

42 is for gheys

50 inch is where its at

 

[cli0 172]

na ,that's just for old farts with dodgy eyesight

 

[Clart]

42" LCD wall mounted in the bedroom is the way forward .....

if u have that in your bedroom what do u have in your lounge?

 

[Adam K]

42" LCD wall mounted in the bedroom is the way forward .....

if u have that in your bedroom what do u have in your lounge?

strippers and a pole.

 

[The Hoff]

Really love it how people shoot down products with little or no knowledge of the set itself. For £360 you can get a 32" AOC which has had superb reviews by folk over at AVforums, also a 32" Hansspree for the same price, which is a rebadged Relisys.

They even have a 37" for £498. Given that all of them over 27" come with a in home swap under the 24 month warranty i'd happily purchase one.

Perhaps not for philes, but until HD becomes standard and much improved then i'd be inclined to save £500, and go on holiday with the money saved.

Link to products:

http://www.intekx.com/index.php?cPath=17

 

[Adam K]

it's called badge snobbery.

you don't have to subscribe to this phenomenon, but others like to.

hth.

 

[G_F]

Its all proportional anyway, this £350 lcd wont be as good as the mentioned £550 tosh, but in the same way that tosh wont be as good as my £700 Sony, which in turn isnt as good as the £1200+ Sony FWD-32LX1, all 32".

But the one i posted will be good enough for the job as a main tv and more than good enough enough for a second in the home.

As long as they display p**n.....

 

[j6 pkp]

Really love it how people shoot down products with little or no knowledge of the set itself. For £360 you can get a 32" AOC which has had superb reviews by folk over at AVforums, also a 32" Hansspree for the same price, which is a rebadged Relisys.

They even have a 37" for £498. Given that all of them over 27" come with a in home swap under the 24 month warranty i'd happily purchase one.

Perhaps not for philes, but until HD becomes standard and much improved then i'd be inclined to save £500, and go on holiday with the money saved.

Link to products:

http://www.intekx.com/index.php?cPath=17

just brought a 27" aoc tv off them ^ really good value and excellent value!!

 

[BUFFALO]

i have a 46" bad boy for p**n in my living room which was over a grand, sub 400 bucks 4 a 32" for the bedroom dnt half sound bad am seriously tempted

 

[rich[182]]

Some Toshibas come with the genuine Tosh stand here, good prices too

www.cramptonandmoore.co.uk

 

[The Hoff]

Its all proportional anyway, this £350 lcd wont be as good as the mentioned £550 tosh, but in the same way that tosh wont be as good as my £700 Sony, which in turn isnt as good as the £1200+ Sony FWD-32LX1, all 32"

The screens are only produced by Samsung(S-LCD)/Sharp(QDI/AUO) and recently Panasonic have started building their own panels afaik. Sony have their panels built at two different plants, one is shared with Samsung.

The main difference between highend LCD's is their imaging processor, but again a lot of manufacturers simply share components.

I agree that highend LCD's are going to be better when scrutinized next to a budget model, but for most applications I think spending 400-800 will see VERY little difference, IMO.

But my point is, I don't think price at all is any indication of quality. I think it varies tremendously throughout the market.

 

[Clart]

surely, you get what you pay for, like any consumer items, applies here.

 

[BUFFALO]

from what i understand there is only 3 plant who have a liscence to make the screens its only the interface and screen surrond that changes

 

[The Hoff]

Sure you do get what you pay for, if you pay £800 you can get a nice Sony/Samsung/Tosh/Pioneer. If you've only got £400 then your options are clearly limited with a lesser known brand/rebadged LCD.

My point is though, when drawing a comparison between an £800 unit, and a £400 unit. Is the extra £400 warranted, does it indeed make the unit twice as good at its job?

No, it doesn't. You can look at contrast ratios (like Samsungs dodgy claims) all day, but unless you get 2 units side by side, with the same source and the same inputs then it's very hard indeed to make an informed decision about how much added value your £400 is buying. I'd argue not a lot.

As the technology matures and the future generation of LCD's and HD sources becomes realised then maybe things will change, but watching Sky+ on a £500 LCD or a £1500 LCD it all looks mediocre.

Normally i'm an advocate of buy the best brand I can with the money I have, be it clothing, PC components, Aftershave, Cameras. But with some products in the digital age, I think you can make choices which don't always have to compromise your (in this case) viewing pleasure - LCD's/DVD Players there's very little to choose between them IMO.

 

[Clart]

but u could say, is a car costing twice as much as another, actually twice as good?

in some cases, possibley.

 

[TheCake]

In my experience of things like this, yes. Price is usually a fair indication of quality.

E.g. Cisco routers are significantly better than say, a Netgear. Linksys wireless equipment is significantly better than say, D-Link...

Ulitmately though, if you can only afford Netgear or D-Link then theres your choice.

 

[The Hoff]

Yeh I guess so chap, but when you're thinking of cars a prime example would be Seat/VW/Audi, all similar products with shared components and very different pricing.

Guess it comes down to a personal decision and choice. I own a Tosh CRT at the moment, it's done a fine job and i'd have no problems buying another Tosh. But frankly I think i'd chance my money on a cheaper model like the AOC/Hansspree sets. Five years time they'll be something different, and we'll all need to upgrade again lol.

 

[The Hoff]

In my experience of things like this, yes. Price is usually a fair indication of quality.

E.g. Cisco routers are significantly better than say, a Netgear. Linksys wireless equipment is significantly better than say, D-Link...

Ulitmately though, if you can only afford Netgear or D-Link then theres your choice.

That's a different kettle of fish though, you're talking of business infrastructure. We too use Cisco Pix routers and firewalls in some remote branches, and for VPN accounts.

As a company we wouldn't dream of entrusting such responsibility on a lesser known brand. But the difference is, Cisco for example have a massive pedigree of such technology, LCD's are a new technology to every brand, the difference being all LCD's are built with shared components, in the same factories.

If I told you that you could buy a Cisco router for £1500, or a Netgear which is built using the same components, in the same factory, with the same interface for £500, then you wouldn't be swayed by the cheaper option?

You can apply "you get what you pay for" to a lot of things, but it doesn't always fit the bill, I agree that you wouldn't use a padlock from a Xmas cracker to securely lock up a bicycle, but theres less of a compromise with LCD TV's IMO.

 

[BRUN]

well the TV we were looking at, Panasonic 32" LCD - TX-32LXD60, thats £1000 in the new Argos catalogue, in Comet its £800, we have just ordered it half an hour ago for £590 delivered

looked at quite a few, saw an LG in Tesco recently which was dreadful compared to, well, anything really, it was £600 and id be really mad if i got that home and saw the picture quality of it, our 15 year old CRT is better

 

[The Hoff]

Dude, it was in TESCO!

Just because it looks s**te in a supermarket it doesn't make it a bad TV.

Chances are:

• Setup in 2 minutes by some kid who works part-time.

• That the signal (whatever it maybe) was running via a splitter to multiple TV's.

• That they used shoddy leads to connect to the aerial/scart input.

Thats no way to measure a TV's ability mate, and it's a shame that people do so. We have a 27" LG downstairs which is spot on.

 

[j6 pkp]

to be honest my new aoc tv has more features on it than a SMALLER branded tv, does more, (has twice as many scart leads, has a hdmi socket and component sockets for xbox360 etc), also comes with a TWO year warranty. its pure brand status people go for! same with everythin, food, clothes etc. (plus it was cheaper than big brand tv's and frankly looks better than some!!)

 

[KyleB]

i got the hannspree for my 360 and it is wicked. probably not as good as a better brand but for my 360 its absolutely stunning.

 

[seb]

any pictures of it in situ?

 

[KyleB]

ill take some tonight, but i only have a 3.2MP camera with me at uni, but ill get some tonight.

 

[seb]

cool ta, i quite like the sound of this tv. gets good reviews on avforums too.

 

[KyleB]

when i was looking for a cheap HD tele I had a scan around avforums and couldnt find anything negative. got it from directvs for £420 delivered, but its just had a price cut so is even cheaper now.

 

[Iain C]

im with the hoff. Iven tho i know very little about this stuff.
I have a 27" acer screen that i got for £520 about a year and a half ago and its fantastic. I looks and sounds far better than my parents Lg 32" screen and they payed about £800 for theirs.

 

[rich[182]]

Dude, it was in TESCO!

Just because it looks s**te in a supermarket it doesn't make it a bad TV.

Chances are:

• Setup in 2 minutes by some kid who works part-time.

• That the signal (whatever it maybe) was running via a splitter to multiple TV's.

• That they used shoddy leads to connect to the aerial/scart input.

Thats no way to measure a TV's ability mate, and it's a shame that people do so. We have a 27" LG downstairs which is spot on.

^ absolutely spot on, non specialist high street stores are fine to see the set in the flesh in terms of how the set and stand look + build quality, as for the SD and to some extent HD performance it's a pointless exercise imho