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Strengths: TV has lots of features
Weaknesses: TV does not have digital tuner - 2 years from obsolescence
Summary: This TV is mostly unusable without remote. Most new TVs are made that way today. Remote is not lighted. It has Sleep, Picture, Sound, Format, PIP, CC, SAP Jump, and Source function buttons making changes very easy. All of these functions are available thru the Menu function, but it is mentally challenging that way.
A lot of inputs - PC VGA/Audio, S-Video, Component/Audio, Composite/audio
Headphone output in rear. Why not in front?
PIP works in PC mode only and has 4 window sizes available.
Auto channel set is picky about signal quality and it did not preset all available off the air channels. Adding weak channels must be done thru a Menu function.
Sound is sufficient but not outstanding. Sound function has 3 content presets plus a surround setting. Picture has 5 content presets. Both can also be set to Personal which allows setting all parameters to your desire - bass, treble, color, brightness, contrast, sharpness. Tint is always settable separately.
Resolution is 1024 x 768 - response time is 16ms. This is not clear on a lot of sites. When viewing closer than 3 feet it is easy to see loss of detail on moving objects. Non-moving objects are sharp and clear. Too high color setting accentuated this. My personal picture settings are:
bright 60; color 50; contrast 43; sharpness 19; tint 77
Note that I have not tried HD content yet so TV is running at 1/2 its capabilities with 480i input and doesn't produce its best picture.
For the price it is a good buy.
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