Product Review - Best of the Best Cheap 32" LCD TV's

By Greased up Deaf Guy, published Aug 15, 2007
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I love TV and I have a 52" big screen that I love to watch all of my movies on and play my video games on. I however needed a much smaller TV for my bedroom that would not only work well as a TV but would double as a computer monitor as well. I started to look around and found some great deals on TV's but wanted to share with others the findings of what was good and what was wrong with these TV's and how to avoid or fix the problems.

The first TV that I looked at was the Visco 32" widescreen TV, its one hell of a price for a 32" ($498) widescreen LCD flat panel TV. So I first went to the store to see what kind of picture it had, I have to say I was very impressed, nice color, vivid display, and it wasn't pixilated at all. I checked with the store and they were running video to it through component video cables, and they even let me bring in my laptop and hookup to it through the VGA port (god bless Wal-Mart). I was very impressed with the TV as a computer monitor it was very good quality and again a nice sharp crisp display.

The next step was the find all of the issues people have had with this TV. The most common problem with the TV is the remote not working and finding a universal to work with it is quite difficult. Other users experienced choppy picture, lines across the screen, and some even said their TV broke after 3 months. That is why if you do decide to buy this TV get the 2 or 3 year extended warranty with it, its about $50 bucks extra and will ensure if your TV is a lemon it will be replaced.

Check out the Visco 32" TV

The next TV was the iLo 32"widescreen LCD TV and it was only $498 and offered plenty of video connections to choose from. The one connection I was disappointed not to see was a DVI or VGA input, but I have S-video on my laptop so I could still use this TV as a monitor for my laptop but it's a sacrifice to have to use S-Video for this. Other than that the TV comes with component, HDMI, composite, and as I said S-video inputs so you can have up to three devices hooked up at once if you have the right cables. I like that his TV has a built-in digital (ATSC) tuner which eliminates the need for a separate set-top box to decode high def broadcasts.

Product Review - Best of the Best Cheap 32" LCD TV's
Product Review - Best of the Best Cheap 32

iLo 32"

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After having read probably more than a hundred descriptions of failures of iLo junk and owning a junk iLo 32HD LCD TV myself, with a bad LCD panel and a sick remote, I think I have arrived at a conclusion that could explain the broad array of failures we unfortunate victims of Walmart's carelessness have experienced. In the late 80s, I shared a business address with an operation (calling it a 'business' would be unfair to others) that bought literally barrels of defective electronic parts, both passive (capacitors, resistors, etc.) and active parts such as transistors, integrated circuits and the like. These parts were not totally bad, but they failed to meet the manufacturer's specifications in some manner. More reliable manufacturers would avoid marking the parts until after testing so many of the parts were blank and had to be discarded by this operation. Even those parts during that time, had some reclaimable alloys that were harvested another company, by crushing, grinding a

Posted on 06/05/2008 at 2:06:21 PM

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