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Best 32" TV for under £300

magyar
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My mum has asked for advice on buying a new TV. She's after a 32" LCD with Freeview (which I guess is almost everything nowadays).

I've seen this
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131916

which seems good value to me. I have a Samsung myself and it's a fabulous screen with great colours. I presume it doesn't much matter what name is written on it! Can anyone suggest a different/better one for the same or less money?
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  • OK_Sauce
    OK_Sauce Posts: 988 Forumite
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    If you find a tv at the right price, find somewhere that sells it - Currys/Comet/Tesco even. Have a look at it. You shouldn't really buy any tv, especially an LCD one without looking at it yourself. Some of the budget screens are absolutely pants!
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  • magyar
    magyar Posts: 18,909 Forumite
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    OK_Sauce wrote: »
    If you find a tv at the right price, find somewhere that sells it - Currys/Comet/Tesco even. Have a look at it. You shouldn't really buy any tv, especially an LCD one without looking at it yourself. Some of the budget screens are absolutely pants!

    Very good point, but of course with a flaw in it. I have never, ever seen a store with a decent signal! All the TVs are either displaying an absolutely pants SD signal which makes even the high quality TVs look awful, or they're displaying a Blu-ray video in HD, and even the cheap ones look good.
    Says James, in my opinion, there's nothing in this world
    Beats a '52 Vincent and a red headed girl
  • BillScarab
    BillScarab Posts: 6,027 Forumite
    It may have a Samsung panel but does it have Samsung electronics to process the picture? There are only a few manufacturers of LCD panesl so all the companies tend to use the same panels. It's the way they process the signal that makes the difference.

    There are some good budget TVs around but there are some awful ones as well. It's worth doing a search on https://www.avforums.copm and see what the concensus is on there regarding this TV. There will also probbaly be some recommendations for other budget TVs.
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  • isofa
    isofa Posts: 6,091 Forumite
    Have a read of current reviews in the newsagents, they test a wide selection against each other and the discussions, as Bill mentions above, at www.avforums.com
  • aliEnRIK
    aliEnRIK Posts: 17,741 Forumite
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    Your going to struggle finding a 'decent' 32" at that price

    JVC arnt bad ~
    http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=JVC-LT32DY8ZJ
    but its 330 ~ sorry
    :idea:
  • timberflake
    timberflake Posts: 1,623 Forumite
    £300 for a decent 32" lcd is unrealisitc. To get a good tv at that size you would need to spend at least £450+
  • Fifer
    Fifer Posts: 59,413 Forumite
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    timberflake wrote: »
    £300 for a decent 32" lcd is unrealisitc. To get a good tv at that size you would need to spend at least £450+

    Really? I'm quite impressed by this.

    EDIT: This is even cheaper.
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