Hitachi 32 in LCD £349 and poss 5 year guarantee

devild_2

Richer Sounds are doing the Hitachi L32H01 LCD TV for £349.95 with 1year guarantee. To extend this to 5 year only costs an extra £34.90 but if you can get John Lewis to price match you get guarantee free (normal JL price £499). It also includes free wall mount.

Bought this today and spec is excellent twin HDMI sockets. analogue and digital tuners for freeview, CAM socket, twin RGB SCART sockets are complemented by a component, S-video and VGA input - in short, Pc input, Picture in Picture, contrast ratio 1200:1, everything you'd usually expect form a more expensive LCD TV.

I connected this to my Sky and Xbox 360 and the picture is amazing.

http://www.richersounds.com/showbigproductpicture/HITA-L32HR1/304045.jpg

Lütz_Pangaloo

That does sound a lot of telly for the money - I like Hitachi sets - they seem to just go on and on.

There's another thread running at the moment about a 32" Hannspree panel to a similar spec that's available for £310ish delivered from MISCO, but you've mentioned something interesting - I don't think it has a CAM slot so you can get TUTV or SETANTA on it's digital tuner. Strange ommission worth pointing out I think.

torbrex

Can I ask?

Where did you get it?

devild_2

Glasgow Branch. Forgot to add but noticed on other board Richer Sound Refund the guarantee if not used!!

Derek_Duval

devild wrote: »

Glasgow Branch. Forgot to add but noticed on other board Richer Sound Refund the guarantee if not used!!

Richersounds only refund with supercare. LCD's & plasma's are covered by Panel Protection, which doesn't refund if unused.

http://www.richersounds.com/information.php?cda=static&cst=supercare_info

bobdauilda

devild wrote: »

Richer Sounds are doing the Hitachi L32H01 LCD TV for £349 with 2 year guarantee. To extend this to 5 year only costs an extra £34.90 but if you can get John Lewis to price match you get guarantee free (normal JL price £499).

Bought this today and spec is excellent twin HDMI sockets. analogue and digital tuners for freeview, CAM socket, twin RGB SCART sockets are complemented by a component, S-video and VGA input - in short, Pc input, Picture in Picture, contrast ratio 1200:1, everything you'd usually expect form a more expensive LCD TV. Richersound will refund warranty if not used!!

I connected this to my Sky and Xbox 360 and the picture is amazing.

http://www.richersounds.com/showbigproductpicture/HITA-L32HR1/304045.jpg

Don't JL just pricematch a like for like warranty and tv? ie they will only pricematch the £384.90?
Still a good deal though!

PS what is the response time of the panel?

devild_2

My bad, looks as though JL option to get free 5 year cover

devild_2

No JL will cover basic price otherwise they are effectively charging for warranty when they state it's free!! I don't know the response time but certainly no ghosting etc. on XBOX 360 or playing DVD on upscaler player ""Return of the Jedi" and "Fast and Furious"

davidmcg2u

Hi,
Can I ask how you went about the pricematch in store?

Glasgow is our local branch & I was considering the 19" from Aldo for our room but now I'm toying with the 32" Hitachi.

Thanks

devild_2

You need to contact the store by email at http://www.johnlewis.com/Help/Email.aspx or phone 0141 353 6677 for Glasgow and tell them where you saw the TV you want to match. They will then check but note this can take days. I was lucky that I was getting this checked before RS dropped price even further (was originally £429 without warranty!! last week )

Lütz_Pangaloo

davidmcg2u wrote: »

Hi,
Can I ask how you went about the pricematch in store?

Glasgow is our local branch & I was considering the 19" from Aldo for our room but now I'm toying with the 32" Hitachi.

Thanks

If your not bothered about the CAM for the digital tuner (which the Aldi 19" telly doesn't have) then the Hannspree 32" from MISCO is a better deal at £310 delivered.