Flat-Panel-TV Reviews

service not too great - that's why the low rating. This was our first LCD T.V. purchase. T.V. konked out within 90 day warranty - no picture. E-mailed Funai first (no response). Then I called Funai and actually spoke to someone - because it was brought through Amazon (not a store) - had to use "Authorized Service Center". Authorized Service Center has now had t.v. for 3 weeks, and I'm told they're waiting for power supply. Needless to say, the 3 weeks has now made the unit older than the 90-day warranty, so if something else goes wrong, I'm stuck. I'd recommend another manufacturer.

I am a college student living in the dorms and this t.v. is awesome. It's perfect for my room. It's sleek and saves a lot of space. No worry about a big bulky box that takes up too much space and weighs a ton. It's really easy to use and has great picture quality. I have had it since I've come to college, about two and half months, and no problems yet. It's great!

I found this unit to have better picture quality , than most others in its size and price range.

Ive owned other Funai products and have had no problem with them. I even have a 20" Pure Flat set now for over 15 years , and never once had a problem.

Greatstyle and design.

The unit is really nice, well constructed and performs very well.
The only problem is when viewing the TV mode, it is true, you cannot correct/lower/adjust the color saturation. You can do this when on the computer (PC mode) and are watching TV through the PIP mode. The sound is good, the connections are good, the clearity is fine, and there is little "poor response" due to the fast processing of information. There is a nice remote, instructions and easy to use buttons on the front of the panel.
The built in swivel base adjusts both side to side and up and down. There is S-Video connections, Composite, DVI inputs as well as PC connection. This is an HD READY system and accepts all other types of inputs such as DVD, VCR, Camcorder.
This product is limited in availability presently but for the money and overall quality, this is a winner.

Very nice new technology. I have only used it as a video monitor so far. Biggest complaint is NO color level adjustment on video!! and the level seems to be too high. Adjusting brightness & contrast somewhat changes the color levels but at the expense of over compensation. Sound is poor.

I love it. I bought it primarily for PC use and decided that if i am going to spend 400 bucks for a 17 inch LCD then might as well spend a little more and buy a LCD PC with TV too. I love the High Definiton capability. I love the picture quality. Course i have used CRT's till now so cant really say that it is the best buy out there for 500 dollars.
But i like it. I bought mine at costco and then was amazed to see the huge difference in prices everwhere else.
Its a bargain for that price.
I am not giving it 5 stars because i havent really used a lot of LCD's

I have been using this as a TV and sometimes to view DVD's from my computer. The resolution/picture quality and the connections/setup are very intuitive and easy to use.

Overall an excellent product at an excellent price (I picked it up from Costco).

Great picture at times, but often shows a dark "shadow" down the center of the screen. The folks where I bought it said it wasn't the TV, but some kind of electrical interference and sold me a $70 surge protector thing. It's probably 90% better now. For the money, I'd hoped it would be trouble-free.

REcently acquired the Aquos 20" LCD Tv from a retailer in New York City (harvey electronics), when I found it a small discount. It's an excellent LCD TV that can also double as a PC monitor. The contrast and brightness are just great to boot and the surround sound is fabulous. I place it on my desk next to my PC so I can watch CNBC and also play DVD movies while I pretend to be working. :) This is a great product. It's expensive but if you have the money, get one.

Great picture at times, but often shows a dark "shadow" down the center of the screen. The folks where I bought it said it wasn't the TV, but some kind of electrical interference and sold me a $70 surge protector thing. It's probably 90% better now. For the money, I'd hoped it would be trouble-free.

REcently acquired the Aquos 20" LCD Tv from a retailer in New York City (harvey electronics), when I found it a small discount. It's an excellent LCD TV that can also double as a PC monitor. The contrast and brightness are just great to boot and the surround sound is fabulous. I place it on my desk next to my PC so I can watch CNBC and also play DVD movies while I pretend to be working. :) This is a great product. It's expensive but if you have the money, get one.

I bought this TV based almost entirely on the quality of the picture; it blew everything else away. I'm still very happy with this.
However, the software is less impressive.
The picture quality is undoubtedly a product of algorithms ensuring good contrast and range, and the picture can be further tweaked to viewer preferences. So far, so good.
It would seem to me that it would be fairly easy to write code that would determine the aspect ration of the picture being fed into the TV and adjust the picture accordingly. This could be overidden by the viewer. Similarly, it should be possible to access the inputs and determine which one had a signal. Instead, one has to mess around with the picture size and inputs which involves finding the remote control....
I don't know whether this is a problem with all modern TVs or not, or perhaps most users are not so fussy about bits of the picture disappearing off the edges. With this model, this aspect of its design could definitely be improved.
While I don't use the internal speakers, I have tried them out; the quality of sound is really very good for a TV.

I bought this TV a few weeks ago and so far I am happy with it. I haven't had a chance to hook up Satelite or Cable to it yet, but I will be doing that in the near future.

I bought this TV along with a Panasonic home theather system and it provides the best home theather experience I can imagine for my bedroom. DVDs in progressive scan using component cables (I use monster video 2's) look absolutley stunning - just like in the movies if not better - but only from far away. You have to be at least 80 inches (about 6 and 1/2 feet) away from it. The closer you get to it, the more the pixels become apparent.

This TV also has a very slight ghosting problem. Although you can't see it from a far away distance at all (80 inches or so as I've mentioned earlier) it becomes apparent when you're close. All LCD TVs have issues similar to this from what I have seen, so I would recommend an LCD TV only to those who will be watching it from a good distance. The rule of thumb is to watch from a distance of 3 times the size of the diagonal, so for this 26" LCD TV you would wanna be at least 78 inches away. This happens to sound correct given that in my personal experience this was really the best distance to look at it from.

For those looking for a home theather experience, don't let the relativley small size (26") fool you. Since the TV is widescreen watching enchanced for 16:9 DVDs elminates the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. The size of the image itself on such movies is roughly equivalent to a 32" 4:3 Aspect "Square" TV, since on such a TV you have the black bars which take away from the size of the image.

This TV does a GREAT job of making you think you're at the movies, especially with the back lighting and picture settings on TV set to "Movie". If you get the settings right, it looks as if you're looking at a projector in the movies. Having a home theather system with surround sound and a subwoofer (5.1) also enchances the experience a lot. I've watched Signs, Snatch, and Rocky IV on it, and I was absolutley delighted with the quality of the experience.

I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a home theather TV to watch DVDs or HDTV Movies on. But remember to reserve some distance between the TV and where you will sit or the quality of the picture and thus home theather experience will suffer. 80" is my personal minimum.

I saw this TV in a local store. They have a few model displays. THe sound system is not that good. Picture is really nice. But I'd recommend the Samsung LTN1735 and Toshiba over this one. They just seem more stylish and better. Samsung has HDTV too. Not sure about the Toshiba 17 In or 20" LCD TVs. Spend $20-40 you can get a better one. But this one is not bad, really. Its picture quality is better than Sharp's, in my opinion.

For some reason, it is listed separately as the model N1700W although they are the same monitor. After I ordered this, I found the 3/3 negative reviews on the N1700W listing on amazon, I was worried. However, this is an editor's choice at PC mag on 11/2003, it can't be that bad.

After the order at Amazon, I recieved it from J&R in just two days. Like some other reviewers say, the control buttons on the monitor is too sensitive, but I find the buttons on the remote quite easy to use. So I probably won't need to touch those buttons on the monitor again.

The picture quality is decent. At first, I find the color non-uniform, but it turns out that my video card is not set at the recommended refresh rate of 60 Hz. After that, the image is sharp and clear. As with most other LCDs, only the native resolution (1280x768) works best.

If you are like myself planning to use the DVI output, it doesn't come with the cable. Make sure you order one somewhere.

There is a rebate ending 5/1/04; but it only applies to certain retailers (J&R and others). Check carefully before you purchase. With the rebate, it is priced just a little more than some other 17" LCDs. But with wide-screen, and DVI output, and built-in speakers, and TV turner with PIP and composite video input, you don't find these everyday.

I purchased this LCD TV thinking that I could use it for a computer monitor as well, but it is really not designed for that purpose. Technically, I can plug it into the computer and get an image, but the image is exceedingly blurry because the resolution is that of a regular tv. There's no way you can read text that blurry. I had trouble getting information regarding this aspect from the documentation and online salespeople, so I thought I'd better post the info here. As a tv, it's fine, although the sound is not as good as my external 40W computer speakers. Also, it doesn't receive tv images without an external antenna or cable plugged in.

I bought this 1 month ago and I am blown away! It didn't even mention in the specs that it scales HD! I plugged my canblevosion box with HD and it works!! Also, the best picture I have seen with a DVD. remote was easy but not great but the picture was stunning!!!

I purchased this item for my sister for use in the kitchen while she is cooking. I researched this and quite a few other items of its genre before settling on this item. I am quite pleased.

First, like virtually other other similiar products, know that the LCD is small and only of adequate quality. On its own, the LCD deserves only two stars out of five, however this is not abnormal for a product like this. At a short distance it is generally pleasing to look at, although details are lost on such a small screen at a distance. Sporting events and news are great to watch, documentaries and other shows demonstrating detail are not.

The mounting kit is of good quality and is solid. No worries in mounting this item on a wall or underneath a cupboard. I have stressed the kit and feel very comfortable knowing it will not fail. It also includes spacers if your cupboards have a lip underneath. Installation time will vary on your skill and if you have a drill to assist you, but it should take no longer than 20 minutes from start to completion and complete clean up.

The inputs are similiar to a quality TV or VCR. If you can hook up a TV to antenna or a cable feed, you can use this. It includes a small flexible antenna. I found its reception is as good as rabbit ears. You can also connect CATV coax, and it will convert all non-scrambled channels up to about channel 117. It can also be easily connected to a converter box, DVD, or VCR with no issues.

It included a small remote control. The buttons were easy to use and worked throughout the kitchen as long as it was generally pointed in the direction of the TV. The remote receiver was sensitive enough for me to bounce off the signal off of the refridgerator.

I really liked this unit. I consider it best of its class and would buy another similiar unit.

So far this TV is fine, but nothing special. The wide screen gives the picture an "off" quality to me, and I don't know if that is just true of all wide screens. Picture is not as clear as I get from my Panasonic flat screen, audio is fine, but for me it would have to be bad to be a problem. One irritant is a misunderstanding in the product data. It is described as having PIP, which I thought was great for the price. When I got it, I found out that it does not have 2 tuners, so can't do TV PIP, but can be used as a computer monitor, and get TV or video PIP on the computer screen if you want it. Or, TV, plus video PIP. I think the Panasonic is a little better quality, but this one will do the job for a basic TV if you are not too fussy. I wouldn't get it unless it was on sale, but it isn't bad enough to send back.