Drop a decent powered USB hub between the TV and the HDD.
Ah excellent. The Crap (tm) mark awarded. Means it must be good. :)
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> Colour is somewhat yellow, no individual RGB adjustments.
> Default brilliance / contrast / colour all to high though the setup menu
> say's they are at 50%
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Yes - they do look quite yellow when sitting alongside other TVs on
display. Perhaps they've been "over-adjusted" somehow - for the peaky
blue colour spectra of white LEDs. But colour fidelity is, within
reason, unimportant when viewing media content on a TV, as your eyes
adjust well to compensate. Colour fidelity in display devices is very
important when you're trying to match the display with something else, -
another display, a printer, etc.
For a TV, the "best" setting is the one /you/ like.
Contrast (not only contrast change at different viewing angle) is a
usual failing of TN panel displays, particularly toward the bright and
dark end, where white or black "crush" occurs - perhaps due to the
inability of the LCD subpixels to react in a very linear manner when
they're at the extreme, or perhaps due to (or possibly exacerbated by)
the use of 6 bit DA converters.
mmmmm
Lets see now.
They come with a 3 year warranty.
3 * 365 = 1095 days
$299 / 1095 = 27.3 cents per day.
i.e. for 27.3 cents per day the Warehouse guarantee you a TV.
Do what I did and take in a 14" TV, get $59.80 off a 19" Veon and the
maths come down to 21.8 cents a day.
(there is 430 14" CRT TV's on Trademe today, a lot are at $1 reserve &
will be lucky to sell)
TV dies, DVD stops working... who cares, that's the Warehouse's worry.
No parts left, again who cares they either give you another TV or give
you your money back.
Colour.
Yes I've seen better.
But! wind the contrast/brilliance/colour back and to a lot of people it
will be perfectly adequate.
As a 'service man' you will have seen how many TV's come in with
dreadfull contrast/brillance/colour settings.
Set them right and the first thing the customer does is go back to what
it was 'because they want to see the colour they paid for' either that
or their eyesight is not as perfect as your's is.
Availablility.
Face it Woger it's the only game in town.
NONE of the other brands sell a sub 22" LCD TV with Freeview tuners.
The Warehouse at Te Rapa Hamilton 'can not get enough of them'
Context.
Warehouse staff tell me customers are buying them for Caravans,
Bedrooms, Kitchens...
i.e. Low cost, good enough for what is asked of it.
For the 'big picture' in the lounge, I would quite agree the big brands
provide a better picture/sound etc.
But for watching Coro or Master Chef while preparing / eating dinner
>good enough<
I bought 2 x 15" S&V TV's some time ago from the Supermarket.
Yep cheap "Crap" (TM) and the speakers in them 'were' crap.
But 'within their usage envelope' (headphone permanently plugged in =
clean audio) both have provied totaly reliable and 'useable'
Best
Paul.