TV Reviews

I had some difficulty getting channels 2-6 (low band)with this antenna. These channels tend to be very hard to tune into because of electrical interference. Plus, the fact that I live in a basement. Outdoor antennae are still the best provided you don't have to drop your coax cable beyond 15 ft.

I have a Recoton TV575 and get wonderful reception...I also have a Recoton TV200 which does a poorer job. I do wish the design was less chunky...it's a bit much sitting on top of the TV. Hope you get a shipment soon.

Performance: 4 stars This powered antenna provides better TV picture quality and radio reception in every instance I compared it to my old non-amplified indoor antenna. Even when receiving strong broadcast stations, this product enhanced the cripsness of the TV image. It does not reduce ghost images though; for that you'd need specialized circuitry.

Caution: cranking the amplification to maximum enhances FM radio reception, but seems to overload the reception of TV channels, which become distorted unless you turn it down to about 90% amplification.

Comparisons: I compared this product to another Terk amplified antenna shaped as two diamonds, which claimed that it did not need to extend to great lengths as rabbit ears to deliver a good picture. The Recoton TV575 delivered better picture than the Terk.

Recoton's next step up, the TV600 antenna, has less UHF amplification power, so I did not go for it even though it was just $10 more...

We bought this cabinet in April for our new family room. Now in November it just headed out my door for the junkyard. It began with the bottem rail piece in the front falling off, My husband tried to fix it two times. Then the large bottem drawer began not rolling right and falling off the tracks. This piece is horribly made and is not worth the money unless you plan on never moving it or using the drawer. Don't waste your money. This stand is made by O'Sullivan, spend the extra money and by a Bush cabinet. That's wat we got for our living room and it's extremely sturdy.

Looks great for the price.... BUT - components may not fit!

This is a well constructed Item, though the Doors are a little squeeky and irritating to hang properly.

The shelves are off center which gives it a strange look when the doors are shut, maybe i'm a little picky.

This item is heavy but easy to construct.

Look at the dimensions carefully it is taller than i thought the Picture made it look.

Title says it all. No more video. Can't even find their web site on the internet.

I went from an old non stereo, 25" to this 27" model.

Stereo works well, and also will automatically turn on the closed captioning when you mute the volume.

S video conenction, regular coax ("cable tv") and 1 set of RCA jacks, but no audio output.

This is a "generic" Panasonic, so it has the same black picture tube as the much more expensive Panasonics, but fewer bells and whistles overall.

One of the biggest selling points to me was that the screen is MUCH flatter than anything else in this price range. All the other stereo tvs at this price looked like fishbowls. In fact, even on its own, it is a relatively flat screen, which makes a big difference.

The comb filter seems to have made a huge difference in picture sharpness over my old tv.

This is a great TV for the price. Most tvs with S video cost more. The screen is flatter than almost all tvs at the same price, which is a bonus. Great DVD picture when using the S video.

Great black/white seperation. Comes with timer and the ability to label channels with text.

it fits in the same space that my old 25" tv used to sit.

I purchased a proscan 36" tv no more than 4 years ago. I spent close to $...Big Mistake!! the proscan tv that i bought has a picture tube problem that was not disclosed during manufacturing. proscan nor circuit city where i bought it would not help me out at all. my recomemdation....by a Sony tv,....at least they will honop you as a consumer and help you out.

Sorry Pro-scan,...you just did not want to help out the average consumer,....shame on you!

Hey - Drew Smith - They ask for a freaking review of the TV, not your opinion on HDTV adoption rates....

This model has a few more features (like Twin Tuner PIP) than its sibling RCA MM36100 which got high marks and a perfect picture on [the Cnet website]. This model supposedly does not support a progressive scan DVD. I intend to purchase a PROSCAN PSHD105 Digital HDTV Receiver which was considered a must by most owners. I bought this because of the low price and free shipping (very heavy, delivered to my living room, not curbside). I considered the Sony WEGA but it doesn't have the HDTV features.

One long-asserted myth of consumer capitalism is that products improve over time, tested and winnowed by the market. This Walkman disproves that. I had a Sony Walkman that I used every day for over a year (until I dropped it down the side of a mountain); it had auto-reverse, a convenient belt clip, it was compact enough to fit into a pocket; it was everything I wanted in a Walkman. And, of course, it's not being made anymore. Instead, you have stuff like this.
This is a device that's designed for one apparent use: to hold in your hand (a large hand; it's too big for my wife to hold comfortably) (and only in your right hand; it is not laid out to fit comfortably in the left hand) while jogging in the rain. Or, perhaps, trail running or some ther "edge" sport.
It's big and heavy; about twice as large as it needs to be. This means, among other things, that you can't easily fit it into a pocket.
The cassette bay opens a bit like a submarine hatch, which is to say it takes two hands and a lot of attention to get the cassette in and out. So, you'd think they'd put auto-reverse in it to reduce mucking around (and keep the water out) but they don't.
The volume knob is very easy to find and adjust, but if the Walkman is anywhere but in your hand (in a coat pocket, perhaps?) the volume changes every time you move.
There's a belt clip, which is on the short list of things I need on a Walkman, but there's also a fabric strap to hold it onto your hand with, and the strap, which is not removable, gets in the way of the belt clip and makes it really difficult to clip securely.
It is ostensibly water-resistant (though it's not meant to play underwater) and there's a rubber seal in the cassette bay. I use my Walkmen primarily for bicycling to work in rainy Seattle, and I've never had a problem with any of them being damaged by water. I guess I'm not extreme enough. This would be a useful feature for a kayaker, I suppose, except that a kayaker would have a hard time holding it in one hand, as he paddled.
But it looks great: if you have one of those traffic-cone yellow Nissan Xterras, this Walkman would look really cool sitting on the hood.

but hard to hold without hitting the radio buttons. Lots of options, though.

I have used this walkman for two years of extensive listening to books on tape. It is perfect for this use. It is true that the buttons are easy to bump accidently, but I just leave the hold button on, and the problem is solved. My husband needs a new tape player, and this is the one I'm getting him.

I've owned Sony Mini disc players - the first one I owned had this AVLS - I didn't like it at all and wrote to Sony to let them know. This AVLS feature limited the upper volume of my first mini-disc player. I told Sony that they had no right to "control" my choice of the amount of volume I wanted to listen to my music. The second Sony mini-disc player I bought (the first one was defective) did NOT have the AVLS and I was pleased that they removed this Sony control over my choice. This product (the cassette player) has this Sony "big brother control". I was ready to purchase this product until I saw the AVLS feature. Now I will not buy this product simply because of that feature. I will write to Sony again about this cassette player. Believe me, the highest volume that Sony sets the AVLS at was low, insufficient. It was frustrating to not be able to turn up my volume, especially while I power walk and I hardly think that when I'm at my football games, I would even be able to hear the TV bands at all. The other features are nice - but Sony has lost my purchase due to the AVLS.

I recently purchased this player for my birthday as a gift to myself and I am so pleased with it that I actually just got done ordering another one as a back up, just incase I break my first one.
Very Happy, I love the Auto-Reverse feature because I listen to a lot of tapes at work and it saves me from having to stop my work to flip the tape over when side one has finished.
Wonderful unit, and reasonably priced, Great for the Audio Book fan.

I got this walkman about a week ago and I'm loving it. It weighs about half as much as the 12 year old sony walkman its replacing, and the digital tuning is a great feature. I learned to work it easily in about 5 minutes of playing around and mimimal instructions. The tapes load from the back, which is a little odd, but doesn't do anything bad. AM radio works GREAT, FM pretty good, TV good on some stations, and WB not at all, but I don't really need that anyways. The battery indicator is a great feature that they happened to throw in, and all the buttons are in good places and work well. It comes with a case and headphones which both work well, and look dorky. I recomend this cassette player!

I wrote a glowing review about the Toshiba 27A50 but have since had a problem with poor warrany service. I had to return the 27A50 to the company for full refund after four months of trying to resolve the situation. I am sorry to say considering the problems,I doubt that I would purchase another Tosiba product.

Let me start by saying that the Toshiba I now have is excellent. My first TWO sets, however, had issues. The first emitted a high frequency hum (squeal to be more precise) which made viewing a miserable experience, and the second had severe picture problems.

I went through the company's warranty to fix both problems, and after having the televisions out of my house for a total period of six weeks out of three months, I finally received the set I now have.

During this period, Toshiba reps claimed: that the only person that should be able to hear the sound would be my wife because women hear higher pitched sounds, that since I already had one television replaced that they would not replace another regardless of warranty, that the problems were caused by me or made up, etc. All these claims without even looking at the television. Their servicing agent was miserable.

Overall, this was a bad experience to say the least, and although I'm not willing to say that I would never buy a Toshiba again, one should think about their actions before buying.

When I was in the market for a television, I really liked this model (Toshiba 27A50) for my budget. The 27 inch picture filled up my entertainment stand, forcing me to get a bigger one. The picture quality and sound are great. But anything was better than what I was replacing. This TV has a cool Picture-in-Picture feature that I really love. Although, at first, it was somewhat difficult to get it to work with my cable box and VCR. This feature keeps me and my wife on even ground. I can watch the game in the PIP window, while she watches her shows. You can swap back and forth very easily. This TV also has 'Colorstream' technology. This allows you to connect other components, such as a DVD player with 'Colorstream', to the TV to enhance the picture and performance. There are two inputs for components in the back of the TV. I like this setup. I can connect my DVD to the 'Colorstream' component video. Then connect my VCR to the other input. This way you don't have to connect your components to each other. They all go directly to the TV. The remote control is not the greatest. It has a slide bar on the left side to switch between TV, cable TV and VCR. Then you use the same buttons depending on what the switch is set on. Sometimes this switch has a mind of it's own. It gets positioned between the TV and cable TV settings then you change a channel (thinking its the cable TV channel) and the TV channel changes. Sometimes this gets to be annoying, but for the most part it's not that bad. The remote does glow in the dark, but you can barely see the buttons.

I bought this tv and started having problems with it 4 months later, the tv turns itself off immediately after you turn it on. I was upset that it was one month out of labor warranty so I was going to have to pay $80 for repairs already. No one on the customer service lines at Toshiba was underdstanding or apologetic for this inconvenience. I had it repaired and am still having problems with it doing the same thing. Toshiba will not do anything about it until they hear from the service company which means I have to take time off work to drive it back to this service company. And still I have yet to hear one of their customer service reps apologize for sell me a lemon of a TV. I will never by Toshiba again. And I would never recommend them to anyone else that was looking for a TV.

I got this TV for Christmas last year...that would mean it's less than a year old. Well, it's already busted. It was a great TV for a while, but then one day it just wouldn't turn on. It's such a small TV though, so it's not really worth repairing. Now I'm just going to have to invest in a new TV, which is very disappointing, especially since this was a gift.

I ordered MD13P1 TV/DVD combo from Amazon.com They said it would take from 5 to 10 days for Delivery .It only took 3 Days 5 stars to amazon. The discription said it would play mp3's nope notta will not Play them. As for every thing else works just GREAT.

It was a good TV when It worked but It is a year and a half old now and dead as a door nail, with an expired warranty. I've never owned a TV that would go out after only a year or two of use. Repair man estimated a $300 bill and this is if the tube is good :-( I see I'm not the only one with this problem

The gadgets are cool, the picture is good but I can't recommend it. I started having problems with it within the first 90 days of purchasing it. It was under warranty, so it was repaired at no cost to me. (By the way, there's no such thing in-home repair. That just means they cart the TV to the shop for repair instead of you carrying it yourself!)

But the worst of it is that within a year, (apparently) the same problem is back again. At least it looks the same, BUT now the warranty has expired! Needless to say, this is not a good record!

I had a Zenith that was almost 20 years old and a Magnavox that is 13 years old. Neither have ever had to be repaired. But this RCA needs repair twice in less than 1 1/2 years! So, if you're really considering buying one, purchase the extended warranty coverage-- you'll probably need it!

I don't know where I've been for the past 10 years (happy with my old TV, I guess) but the technological innovations that have been built into these new TV's are amazing! With the Guide Plus programming system, you see a full list of programs on TV for the next three days, and also receive news via MSNBC. Best of all, the G-link cable provided lets you record a program on your VCR just by selecting the program in Guide Plus, and hitting the record button. I couldn't understand how this feature worked at first, and thought I'd have to purchase some expensive TV-VCR interface to get it functioning. However, the G-link cable provided (a cable that plugs into the back of the TV and has an LED on the other end) works with most VCR's. You just stick the tiny red LED onto the front of your VCR, and the TV beams the VCR the necessary codes to record your program, even if the VCR is flashing "12:00". Easy to use, and has great value for the money. Picture and sound are great, and setup is easy. Just follow the online prompts screen by screen, and you'll be up and running in no time. The Guide Plus feature does take a day or so to work, because the TV has to receive information from a station that provides the info in your area (the TV finds the station all by itself), and it can only do this when turned off overnight for at least 10 hours the first time. It then updates itself thoughout the day, whenever it is turned off. Great product with great features!

Our SONY KP-57WV600 is either defective or poorly designed. After a year of owning this televsion there are large streaks and circular areas of dust caught under the screen. The TV has not been exposed to large amounts of dust and the room it is placed in is immaculent. Even if I was a bad housekeeper it should not be covered with dust residue. Have had repair person out twice and not even he knows what to do. Finally the company that I bought it from has it at "the shop." Even if they are able to remove the dust is there going to be a guarantee that they have stopped the problem? I believe this is a design flaw and do not recommend this TV to anyone.

sony doesn't allow consumers to access the convergence settings.
It costs almost 200$ every time for a technician to come and do it.
FLASH FOCUS ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH. STAY AWAY!

I shopped around for weeks looking for the right Rear Projection HDTV over 53 inches. This Tv has met all my expectations and has once again stood as a solid reminder of Sony's ability to make a great product. No Buyer's Remorse!