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

mirandamayhem

Constantine wrote:

Tesco currently have a 32" HD ready LCD for £399.99....

From the looks of it, the same as the Woolworths one in the opening post.

Yes, Gloucester cattle market had 2 yesterday evening

eddy_current_2

Sainsbury's have 26" and 32" lcd 's with freeview for £349.99 and £399.99 they are branded TWF but look quite reasonable for the price, 1366 x 768 resolution 1 x HDMI, 2 x scart, 1 x vga, component and s video inputs.

ka7e

My son bought one of the Sainsbury's 32" lcd tvs - with 15% staff discount at the moment, he couldn't resist! He has been using it with the wii and Xbox games consoles (as yet, without HD component cables) and says it's great. My husband is very hard of hearing and says the sound quality is much better than our old set.
My only niggle is that I can't find a way to reorganise the Freeview channels and that there is a slight black screen/freeze when changing channels in the DVB (Freeview) menu.

rebl43

sanyo tvs are the same as sony tvs. they are made at the same factory, with the same bits, just different badge!

dollywops

eddy_current wrote:

Sainsbury's have 26" and 32" lcd 's with freeview for £349.99 and £399.99 they are branded TWF but look quite reasonable for the price, 1366 x 768 resolution 1 x HDMI, 2 x scart, 1 x vga, component and s video inputs.

We bought the 32" on Friday from Sainsbury's and it seems pretty good. DS has been playing the gamecube and ps2 on it and he says it is ok. Now he is just waiting to buy himself a PS3. By the way, DS checked it out, and TWF is made by Samsung.

Constantine

rebl43 wrote:

sanyo tvs are the same as sony tvs. they are made at the same factory, with the same bits, just different badge!

Do you have evidence of that, please?

Postcard

rebl43 wrote:

sanyo tvs are the same as sony tvs. they are made at the same factory, with the same bits, just different badge!

Not entirely true. The panels etc might be the same, but sony will add other internal components which handle the way colours etc are reproduced on screen.

dollywops

eddy_current wrote:

Sainsbury's have 26" and 32" lcd 's with freeview for £349.99 and £399.99 they are branded TWF but look quite reasonable for the price, 1366 x 768 resolution 1 x HDMI, 2 x scart, 1 x vga, component and s video inputs.

If anyone is interested, Sainsburys in Pinner, near Harrow, still had 2 of these this afternoon, and at least 6 of the Sony dvd recorders.

MonkeySaving?

rebl43 wrote:

sanyo tvs are the same as sony tvs. they are made at the same factory, with the same bits, just different badge!

You are so wrong, my mate works in R&D at Sony and he LOL'd hard at your post!

EdinburghKev

I have not read all the posts on this thread but I have spent a number of weeks looking at HD TVs on and off and there are several things you need to know a bit about before you start spending your money.

What am I going to use the HD TV for? Do I know what 720p is? What is 1080i? Should I save and buy a 1080p HD TV?

I have been looking as I fancied running my XBOX 360 at a higher resolution. In the end I opted for a £150 Advent 19" WS TFT monitor from PC World which allows me to run my XBOX at 720p.

A great place to check up on HDMI, 720p, 1080p etc is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and do a quick search.

I would just love a Sony X HD TV but I need the price to fall £4000 before I can afford one! Anyone from Sony around??