TV Reviews

I received this TV last week and I wanted to check it out before I wrote a review. This TV is a tremendous bargain. The picture is very clear and the colors are crisp and natural. I have my DVD player hooked to the component video imputs and the picture is fantastic. The picture is definitley better with the component video. There is one small complaint. The specs state that there are 2 rear A/V imputs plus 1 component video imput. Actually the Video #2 A/V imput has only audio imputs - the component imput must be used for the video. Before I ordered this TV I was little concerned about shipping such a large item. It took 2 weeks from the day I ordered the set to when it was delivered. The shipping company was very courteous and they delivered it when they said they would. Not bad. If you are looking to buy a 36 inch TV and do not want to spend the extra for a flat screen, then I recommend this JVC TV. You will not be disappointed. You cannot beat the price when you consider that shipping is free and no sales tax.

I own both this and the AV-27260. The only differences I have noticed are the screen size and wattage of speakers. Everything else is the same.

Both have an excellent, clear, crisp, sharp picture due to their 3-line digital comb filters and easy adjusters. And both have a clear, crisp, sharp hi-fi stereo sound to match. What helps with the sound on both is their separate bass and treble adjusters and hyper surround.

Both have 3 sets of a/v input jacks(2 rear, 1 front), 1 rear audio output jack and 1 S-video input. It has made it easier for connecting a satellite receiver, VCR and DVD player.

I do not get all the local channels with satellite. So, connecting a separate antenna to pull them in and be able to use the dual-tuner picture-in-picture helps with both.

To rap it up, I use the 27" in the bedroom and the 36" in the living room. Both have too many features to cover all them. It is why I suggest also checking ...for more information. And I highly recommend both.

I will mention one other convenient feature. It is both of their universal remotes. They are easy to program. And the owner's manuals for both are clear and inclusive. And at the low prices on this site, I highly recommend checking and buying from this site one of these two. I found both are a lot of TV at reasonable prices. It is based on features and overall quality of both.

Have heard about JVC quality. This TV is true to form. It is much less expensive than an equvalent Sony or Toshiba. All the others do not have all the features. The JVC is half the price of a Sony. It picture tube with the 3 comb filters blows away any type of projection TVs.

JVC is a true 36 inch, it measures 36.5 diagonally where others often fib on the true size. The picture is sharp covering the entire glass, corner to corner, edge to edge. Beautiful picture.

The JVC has all these features:

Comb filters improve picture quality. Less-expensive TVs save you some money by omitting a digital comb filter. This component is important, since it enhances detail and improves overall picture. Try viewing two TVs side-by-side, one with a comb filter and one without, and you'll know why having one is a good idea.

If you plan to use the speakers in your TV (rather than hooking up external speakers)make better internal speakers a priority. Be sure to evaluate the set with a variety of sound sources, including music and action films. The JVC In-set speakers are pretty good but will never sound as good as a stand-alone sound system, so it is recommended you use the audio output ports to drive external speakers.

If you want to control all your components with one controller, this TV comes with a universal remote.

Picture-in-picture allows you to view two video sources at once, with one appearing as an inset in a small window on the screen. If you want to keep an eye on a second program,JVC PIP is essential, this set with two tuners enables you to watch two video sources with no additional hardware.

You can get better color and resolution from this JVC TV that has S-Video or component inputs. Inexpensive TVs use composite inputs.

S-video or component inputs are identifiable by their white, yellow and red color scheme.

I bought this in the store and am very, very pleased with it. Easy to assemble and very sturdy. I am also getting the coffee table and end table that matches it! *****

I purchased the stand at my local store and I'm very pleased with it. Easy to put together and the three shelves are great. Can't beat the price for wood and the size. I've seen stands made of MDF that cost more and they're smaller too. The natural finish goes with many colors and decor.

I bought this item and was getting ready to put it together and I had instructions for an armoire. I called the 800 number and am awaiting instructions. Hopefully, I can get them via email so I can put this tv stand together. I just love the wood. It is perfect for my tv. It matches a computer stand that I bought. Now all I need is to be able to put it together.

I dont know why would someone buy this television. I wanted a big screen television for a new X-Box console, but you cant use video game systems on ANY projection screen tv because it will ruin it for good, and then you money will go down the tube. This is just a warning for all of you wanting to buy a projection screen tv for a video game system. DONT BUY ONE FOR THAT PURPOSE, otherwise its an ok tv.

the "gray bars" that appear on the sides of a standard (square) TV image. Like when a movie is in widescreen, there are BLACK bars on the top and bottom, making the picture ever more viewable. Well, for a widescreen TV, a standard image has those sides to fill, so pioneer decided to have LIGHT GRAY bars which, in theory, make your TV last longer because the projector burns evenly. But this is lame because no matter what projector you buy, your going to have to replace the bulb in 5-7 yrs anyway. I would've gone with a plasma, but if you've ever seen an in-store display with plasma TV's (running all day for a few months), it becomes obvious that plasmas burn out even faster than projectors. Still, there is nothing like watching a movie on my pioneer. It is one of the best ones that you can buy, the image proves that. So, I do love it and opted for the pioneer above a 40" Sony Wega. But, if your going to watch TAPES or play GAMES, get a picture tube that will last 15 yrs. I've owned my pioneer for a year now, and already had to turn up the brightness by 4 notches, which does make black colors suffer. I estimate this TV will last me 5 yrs.

I have owned this TV for almost a year now and just recently added the RCA DTC100 (HDTV Reciever) to my system, WoW! You can't do better then Pioneer tv's. Recently I had a visitor to my home and he said "Why is your picture so awsome?". This person spent...more then I did on a Mitsubishi HDTV needless to say he was VERY upset. If you have the chance, BUY ONE! You will not be disapointed...I have had great success with my game console (sony) To bad Pioneer does not make one.

let me jsut start by saying I LOVE THIS T.V. my eldest daughter of 13 has wanted a T.V. for her bat mitzvah I hesitated, but of course my husbande jumped to the oppurtunity. We bought it for her and to my amzement it was awesome! It has a dvd,tv, and cd palyer all in one. It's good for her listening to music and basically all the sleepovers she has. So any mother considering buying a T.V. this is the one for you!!!!!!!:)

My daughter has just turned 13 and she has begged me over and over.. Mom my freinds all have T.V.s in their rooms why can't i? I finally, on my better judgment let it. I bought this T.V. and even though we have small shelving space it worked amzingly she even can play C.D.'s too! This is a must for all new T.V. buyers 5 STARS!!!!!!

Just received the TV/DVD player today. I hesitated when reading previous reviews but I like to live dangerously. I found the system easy to set up. The manual was not confusing and took less than 7 minutes to set up (including test of the CD player, cable programming, remote operation and closed captioning). Picture and sound are very crisp. I don't see any reason this product won't last as long as any other of similar type. At this point it looks like a great deal.

I bought the TV about an year back. I am deeply dissatisfied with its performance.
For the last few months, the TV would just hang - neither the remote nor the TV controls would work. I had to pull the plug on the TV to restart it. This kept happening every 3 days.
Today, the remote control buttons for the channel change stopped working. I have to keep going to the TV controls to change the channels. This is very frustrating.
I recommend that you do not buy this TV - if you do, atleast get the two year home service warranty so that you can get it fixed if the problem shows up within a reasonable time.

I bought this to compete with a projection TV in the lounge, for the bedtime leasure. And the picture clarity of this tube TV is just stunning, 27 inchs of joy.

Clean lines and clean picture.

This is an excellent flat screen tv for the price. I did alot of research on 27" flat screen tv's and this was an excellent deal. great picture and sound quality.

This product is truly designed for owners of digital cameras with various types of memory cards. The image quality on large format HD screens is quite impressive.

Downside, you have to have a compact flash card and reader in order to import the updated software. Looking at prices at Amazon this could cost more than half the price of the unit itself. This is a serious shortcoming for this product and my reason for a average rating. I have still not been able to get the unit to work on either of my networks using Windows XP.

Most people keep their photo's on CD's and a CD slot would have been a great feature, even over the assortment of memory card slots they provide. I would believe that most images are moved from memory cards to hard drives and cd's for long term storage and later viewing making a CD drive much more practical.

This is a very well executed product.

After using the Prismiq MediaPlayer for six months (which I have now sold off on ebay), this is a godsend. Even my wife can now use the Roku HD1000.

* Component Video Output of upto 1080i (this is a plus for me as I have an HDTV, although this may not be an important feature to you if you do not have HDTV) -- finally some justice done to my digital photos. Actually, the UI is more readable as well because of the higher resolution.

* Very good UI, although some some features (better playlist navigation, auto-playlists or sort by artist/album/genre etc) are desperately needed.

* Open platform, SDK is freely available. Opens door for 3rd-party developers

* No special server software needed, other than SMB file sharing.

* The company engineers (including the CEO) seems to be listening to the customers and coming up with useful feature updates.

* The only negative feature is its price. At $500, it seems a bit too expensive.

High-Resolution HDTV output looks fantastic, for both pictures and
menus. MP3 player displays ID3 tags and can play in the background
while you do other things (like watch a slideshow). The user
interface is clean, minimalist, and easy to use. It finds shared
content on networked drives and inserted flash cards and they appear
in the user interface automatically. Unlike the competition, it
requires no proprietary server software: just plug it in and you are
ready to go. And it costs about the same as competing products, but
none of them provide HDTV output.

The only drawback is that the remote responsiveness is slightly worse
than other electronics, though programming a learning remote from the
supplied remote makes it better.

My Samsung TXN2775HF worked fine for 8 months until the CRT failed. It has been in the shop under warranty for almost 3 weeks with no end in sight. Samsung Customer Service is an oxymoron. They provide conflicting information and their supervisors happen to be "out of the building" when you need to talk with one. To spend this much money on a product, have it fail after such a short period of time, and then have Customer Service seem unwilling or unable to do anything about it says volumes about a company.

Cheapest priced 16:9 HDTV monitor out there.

Not cheap in quality either

This TV has the sweetest picture one can imagine,crisp,deep and the color choices can please most anyone. The sound from the side firing speakers can be adjusted to suit even the most discriminating audiophile. Remote operation is simple (read manual first). DVD picture quality is outstanding and VHS is enhanced to a new level. Great entry level HDTV!!!!

My tv was delivered 30 days ago and it has already broken!!! The bulb, which is suppossed to last 10,000 hours, has gone out. My husband did some research on-line and found lots of people complaining about this problem. The authorized repair facility is trying to find out from Panasonic if it's a problem with the bulb or a deeper problem with the tv. The picture is great and I would like to rate this a 5, but a $2700 tv that breaks after 30 days qualifies for a low score. In all fairness, I will update this once the problem is resolved. I just think we should have waited a year or two for them to resolve all issues before purchasing this item.
We ended up exchanging the tv because Panasonic couldn't give us a time frame on the bulb. The new one has been in place for a week and my husband is in love again. I'm reserving judgement for 30 days.

I bought the 50LCX63, same as the 50LC13 except it has an integrated HDTV tuner.
The picture is excellent. Easy to use menus (it probably runs linux code because the user manual has a copy of the GNU license in the back). Well thought out connections in the back.
My screen had 1 bad pixel (always on, blue). It's noticable in menus and playing games, but when watching TV you can't tell. I'm getting it fixed under warranty.
The main reason I can only give this product 3 stars: the cooling fan for the light bulb is amazingly LOUD. If you have a big wall unit that will insulate the TV's fan sound, this would be a 5-star TV for you. The noise is making me wish I had bought a quieter LCD-projection or settled for the older but much quieter CRT-projection technology. I don't have the guts to open up the unit and put in a silent fan like you can in a PC.

The 50LCX63 also makes noise when turned "OFF". It's another fan (for the HDTV tuner). That noise probably doesn't exist in the 50LC13, but you should check. But if you're considering the 50LCX63, it's yet another annoying noise you'll have to live with.

I purchased this 50" LCD Multimedia display for Christmas to complete my entertianment room and have not been disappointed. It was a race between this and a similar Hitachi model, but for the price the Panasonic won. In playing with the various settings I have discovered one thing that may work for others regarding regular cable viewing. If you choose to watch cable channels directly through the TV itself (that is changing channels with the TV remote without the use of a cable box) I agree that the picture looks so-so. However, in playing with the settings I discovered that if I watched TV through the assistance of my VCR (using it to change channels) the picture quality was dramatically increased for cable channels (non-digital) as well as the picture automatically filling the entire screen without distortion. I am not exactly sure why this is so, but it may be in part due to the fact that I have the VCR connected to the TV using higher quality Audio/video (Y,W,R)cables, assisting the overall picture output quality.

The picture quality of this 19 is very good!!

Picture controls

-brightness
-sharpness
-Picture
-Color
-TINT

-Contrast +
-DNR
-Color Temp: Normal, Cold, Warm

The sound on the other hand has problems...
There is a buzzing noise!... you can only really change the balance levels or the speakers.

It's an OK TV, that's why I gave it three Stars.

It's great to have front AV jacks for game machines, camcorders, etc but why delete the rear jacks commonly used for VCR and DVD hookups? The picture quality is extremely good, the sound is poor for side mounted speakers, and the remote has great features and works super. I can live with the poor quality speakers but the lack of rear AV jacks is more serious...I'm going to return it and pay afew dollars more for a better set!

This tv can be extremely loud and sounds nice to me. Picture seems crisp to me. My only quirks with it is that the power cable is too short so the power socket has to be like behind or almost next to the tv. The TV has a 16"-18" depth to it so anyone wanting to buy this, might want to consider where it is going. You need minimal of 18" inches of depth for the tv.

Overall: I love this tv set. I would reccomend it to others who need a small 19" set or maybe a family tv.

I bought the 1.8" version of this set at a great discount here on Amazon.com and I am quite pleased with it. The active matrix LCD display ads depth and contrast to the picture comparable to tube portables. The metal stand in the back puts the set at just the perfect viewing angle for desktop use. The shape of the case is stylish and easy to hold when carrying the set about. The jacks for AV input, Ext. Antenna, and earphone mean this set can be connected to just about anything but it is best used as a battery powered carry around portable.

This set has only two notable flaws. First, the color, while quite vivid, tends to be slightly green. Second, the tuning circuit could do with an additional RF amplifier stage to overcome the slightly snowy reception on all but the strongest channels. The tuner is a little slow to start scanning when the set is switched on or when changing from VHF to UHF and it easily passes over some stations requiring you to back up the tuning bar to lock onto the channel. Once tuned in, the signal quality is consistent. I hope in subsequent versions of this set RCA decides to upgrade the tuning circuits and set the hue more accurately or porvide a customer control for color.

On the whole this is a good product that should provide many years of dependable service if you don't mind the temperamental tuner. This TV is second only to the Sony Watchman which is still the standard in miniature television.

The L2500BC is a great little TV for a person on the go. Image quality is excellent on the generous 2.5" screen and can't be any better, thanks to the active-matrix LCD.

However, it is possible that reception could be a problem. I've tried the TV in two different places: Southern California, where reception comes through very clearly; and Northern California, where it was dicey at best. As a result, reception is probably highly variable and dependent on geography; make sure you try this model out at your nearest electronics dealer before you spend the rather pricey amount for it.

In contrast to another reviewer, I found this TV to have far superior reception to any of the Sony and Casio models I looked at in the stores. I bought it and have been extremely happy with it. The screen is a pleasure to look at, the sound is remarkably good for such a small unit, and it is very well built, again in contrast to the other manufacturers' models.