Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)If you've decided on an LCD HDTV, this unit has a cool design and no evident shortcomings to explain its low price.The disadvantages of this unit are similar to those of LCD TVs in general -- black levels are not as good as CRT, plasma, or some projection TVs.Fine details in dark scenes can be washed out in a field of dark gray.At the lowest brightness and backlight levels (which are separately controllable), true black can still not be obtained (and at those settings other scenes will be too dark).Bright scenes, however, look fantastic with excellent detail and color reproduction.For most viewers, the black level issue should be only an occasional annoyance, if that.
Screen proportions can also be changed easily with a button on the remote, allowing you to optimize screen fill for standard vs. HD broadcasts, or wide-screen vs. standard-view DVDs.The design of this unit is unique and pretty cool.The speakers are mounted on a glass plate that surrounds the base unit.The unit also has a removable steel plate on the back that can be used to do a simple flush wall-mount (it's not a swiveling or adjustable wall mount unit, like those often sold separately).
In five years, improved flat screen display technologies will probably make you want to replace this unit and move it to a bedroom.But for those who want an HDTV today, this unit offers an excellent combination of quality and price.
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Product Description:
Perfect for watching your favorite standard and high-definition TV programs, the 30-inch Astar LTV-3001 HD-ready LCD TV can also double as a PC monitor. The LTV-3001 features sleekly modern lines and a table stand, and it also includes wall-mounting hardware. It features a built-in, 216-channel CATV/NTSC tuner and can receive high-definition (ATSC) broadcasts from an optional HD tuner. It also pumps out great sound from the two side-mounted speakers that provide 10 watts per channel (20 watts total power)
This set has a 16:9 aspect ratio that's great for high-defintion television programming and widescreen movies, and is capable of displaying 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i video formats. It features an 1280 by 768-pixel resolution, 170-degreee viewing angle, fast 16 ms (millisecond) video response rate, 550 cd/m2 (candela per square meter) brightness rating, and 600:1 contrast ratio. (The higher the contrast ratio, the greater a TV's ability to display subtle color details and not get washed out by ambient room light.)
The 2D Y/C comb filter helps to improve detail, clean up image outlines, and eliminate extraneous colors. This set also performs 3:2 pulldown detection--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video, frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to display a frame-accurate picture. Other features include a sleep timer, picture freeze, PC picture-in-picture, multiple-language on-screen display, V-Chip parental controls, closed captioning, MTS/SAP stereo output, and auto power shutdown. It offers the following video and audio connections:
Composite AV (RCA) In: 2
S-Video In: 1
Component Video In (Y PB PR): 2
DVI In: 1
RF In: 1
VGA PC input: 1
PC Audio In: 1
What's in the Box
LCD TV, remote control (with batteries), table stand, wall mount kit, AC adapter, printed instruction manual
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