We purchased this TV around Christmas time as a direct replacement for a Panasonic 28 inch CRT and I have to amit the picture quality is far superior to what we have been used to. DVDs especially appear to be much more crisp, however as we do not have a HD DVD player or TV input I could not comment on these features.
The Xbox 360 looks much sharper an is a big improvement. The Wii strangly enough appears to look worse. Only because you can now really see how blocky the graphics really are.
There are pleanty of sound and display options to play with and the auto tune function hapily tunes in all your channels with minimum fuss.
There are enough inputs also. As there are only 2 scart inputs you just may need to invest in new HDMI inputs for which there are 3 of.
The biggest let down is the sound. When we purchased the system we were informed that LCDs in general do not have great speakers built in and to get the most from your system you need to purchase a surround sound kit. At the time I just thought he was trying to sell us more kit but he was right.
In the days of the good old CRT the sound was I have to admit much better. During movies I could turn up the base and really feel involved with the movie. Now I just get the crunching of the speakers struggling to cope. I do not have the TV on loud by any means. We live in a terrace and I don't like to annoy the neightbours.
I have tried to connect this to my seperates in the meantime but for some reason I can't get this to work. I'm by no means a technophobe so I do find this slightly irritating. I might need to shortly invest the cost of the TV again for a surround sound system. I'm sure it is worth it for any movie fan.
Anyway in summary you get here good value for money, with good picture quality. As long as you don't expect too much from the internal speakers I'm sure you would be happy with your purchase. Its been reliable so far but its only been a couple of months.
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