Akura ADV559A

Advantages: space saving
Disadvantages: sound and picture quality

...Myself and my fiancee where looking for a small screen lcd tv for our bedroom to save a little space and jazz the room up a little, i came across a few at our local mackro store after looking on the net for one. There where three to choose from but this Akura at £110+vat was the cheapest but looked the most stylish of the lot but i didnt see it working, how i wished i had. We got it home and set it up turned it on and tuned it on, all this was very easy and simple to do and the instructions if you need to follow them are all easy to read and follow.. When we had set it all up we turned it on and the first thing that struck us was the picture quality, it was, to put it bluntly bad, and then the sound quality, well if you put your telly in a big tin then you will get some idea as to what it sounds like, we tried messing... Read review

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Advantages: High Speed Dubbing
Disadvantages: Unable to Dubb from Hdd to DVD other than @ the quality originally recorded.

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Advantages: HDD/DVD/Timeslip recording, connections, clear menus, price
Disadvantages: Size, slowish start-up/preparation.

...for us as it fitted happily into our main TV unit and the secondary TV wall bracket, the aesthetics themselves being very pleasing at a subtle 'brushed ' silver finish with a jet black front fascia for the buttons and DVD drawer. The second thing as always a good indication of a well though out product were the included accessories which very happily included scart lead, aerial coax lead hefty (albeit pretty small print) instruction book right down to the batteries for the slim but rather cheap feeling but button laden remote. Did the obligatory scratching the head spaghetti wiring up of connections between this, the SKY box, Dolby A/V receiver, TV and VCR whilst the missus and the rabbit cowered in the far corner of the garden awaiting this Novembers second firework display, but surprisingly and painlessly, all connected first time... Read review

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