Bargain alert! 32" HD Ready LCD TV for £399...can you get one?

MyUserNamesTaken

RedOnRed wrote:

Are there any Sky+ remote codes for it?

Don't know if it's a Sky+ code, but found this on another forum:

SKY Code for the Teco 32'' is 310.

Hope this helps.

Chatham2665

rizla01 wrote:

Just to clarify a point here. This is TTBOMK. (Someone will correct me if I'm wrong:))

The digi/sky/cable box bypasses the analogue tuner built into the telly.

If you had a digital TV and plugged SKY into it it would do exactly the same. Bypass it.

Effectively a monitor is all that you need.

This you get with a telly, plus a tuner, be it anny or digi.

Yes you are correct the digi/sky/cable box is effectively the "tuner" when you connect one of these sources via scart or other A/V input.

zenmaster

melissa2 wrote:

I,ll be changing it in about 3 years time for a newer style, mabe by then we will know what is best, what type of HD we will be viewing?, is lcd the best buy?, will plasma improve in longevity? !! Answer all this then maybe then we will want to put serious money down.

OLED will be mainstream by then and prices back up to £1000 for a top end telly. Then we can start this thread all over again .

codger

withabix wrote:

Samsung do a slimline HD-Ready CRT telly for about £400 for a 32" iirc.

BUT the picture apparently isn't as good as LCDs (according to a review I was reading in WHSmiths the other week...)

Hi withabix. I think the model you're referring to is the result of what happens when a manufacturer is brave (or rash!) enough to quietly acknowledge that the LCD still, despite all the hoopla, isn't quite up to the old-fashioned CRT where picture quality is concerned.

So bravo Samsung, because striking out against the herd and attempting to get the best screen -- a CRT -- into the best body: a slimline pseudo-LCD. Brilliant idea! Except: it didn't work.

Owners of the new Samsung WS32Z409T may have loved the way Samsung reduced the rear bulk of the conventional CRT TV, but many also reported serious screen problems as a consequence of down-sizing.

Samsung has now released the WS327429T which, it says, is a sort of minor revision of the original. Oh really? Accoreding to posts on the AV forums, the 409T's dimensions are 568mm high x 934mm wide x just 399mm deep (and that's shallow for a CRT). But the new 429T measures 570mm high x 934mm wide x 415mm.

So the depth has increased.

That can only be because Samsung has found -- too late for many owners -- that the original model just couldn't be relied upon to perform properly: the rear 'trunk' was too small. (Pity they didn't spot that during R&D then -- unless the project was driven more by design than by science).

Be interesting to see how owners of the new WS327429T fare, and whether Samsung will continue to be brave, or foolish, enough to go against the trend. It may turn out to be a brilliant innovation, and one I'll be buying for our home. . . or it may be that a manufacturer like Panasonic may trump Samsung by finally producing an LCD TV which everyone can at last agree on as being as good, if not better, than the old CRT. . .

theloft

A great deal if you want a branded LCD TV is the 32WLT66 Toshiba from Dixons. Using the discount codes (in that section), you can get it delivered for £569.

Snugster

I haven't read this thread all the way through but I have just driven past Woolworths in North Shields and they had boxes outside for the Techsonic 32" TV.
Please just ignore this if it is of no use - I can't be bothered to read all the posts!:rolleyes:

Prudent_Scotsman

theloft wrote:

A great deal if you want a branded LCD TV is the 32WLT66 Toshiba from Dixons. Using the discount codes (in that section), you can get it delivered for £569.

theloft, what do you mean - I don't see any "discount codes (in that section)"? What is the URL of the dixons page with discount codes, or simply what is the discount code?

BTW for people buying a TV: read the reviews first! e.g. reviews from What Hi-Fi Sound & Vision. £399 TVs and the like are seldom reviewed and when they are, they tend to get poor reviews.

OverlandLandy

Is it just my critical eye....I have yet to see an LCD TV that has as good a picture as a good quality CRT one?

They look good, size and feature wise, but I find them a bit 'flat' in terms of the picture (and NO I'm not being funny....i know thet are thin TVs!), Also they appear to still have a bit of 'fuzzy lag' with fast moving images....they look pretty good with the promo disks - slow moving Balloons, flowers, frogs etc.....

I may get one when my TV goes BANG....well I might not have a choice...will CRT production continue into the future?

Ok - I'm away to listen to my 8 track and watch a Video on my Betamax:D

RedOnRed

OverlandLandy wrote:

Is it just my critical eye....I have yet to see an LCD TV that has as good a picture as a good quality CRT one?

The only one i've seen so far that is better then a CRT is the Toshiba 32WLT66.

You could get one recently from Currys for £560 delivered using a couple of vouchers.

codger

Hi prudent: good advice -- but nowadays it's not always a good thing to trust in magazine reviews.

I've seen reviews for 'cheap' models where the absence of a certain feature is marked as a major demerit. And then I've seen reviews of an expensive model where the absence of exactly the same feature is shrugged off as a sort of minor annoyance.

Why?

It couldn't have something to do with the fact that the cheap model has no advertising budget whereas the expensive model is being backed by £50,000sworth of advertising in the magazine?

The AV forums and digital spy are still the best for reviews of actual products by actual owner / users.