Viore LED22VF60 22-Inch 1080p LCD Television (Black)
Very nice TV especially for the price. Has 2 HDMI plugs for easy hookup. My only complaint is that the sound is absolutley horrible. Very “tinny” and adjusting the Bass or treble does not fix this issue. It gets very annoying. I hooked up a couple stereo speaker to it and that seems to work pretty well, but be warned about that, since if you do not allready have speakers, this will add to the cost of the TV. This is the only reason this product did not get 5 stars. Mounted easily on my wall and the 1080i picture is fantastic.
Viore LED24VF60 24-Inch LED 1080p HDTV (Black)
In the last few weeks I’ve gone through several tv sets due to logistic changes and what not. After being relegated to the worst TV set in my household I decided to take advantage of the holiday sales to look for a new set. Black Friday’s prices were nothing to right home about. I found an LED set at Best Buy that has 1080p and did some more research and found it just didn’t have enough ports. I decided to wait and search for some new sets.
Sure enough Amazon came through for me again with this model. If you’re looking for a TV that does just about what you want it to do look no further. It has 2 HDMI ports, your usual component/ AV ports, and a VGA port with Audio in so you can use your TV as a monitor and speaker for your computer as well. You also have coaxial and RF which is good for set top boxes or old videogame consoles. It’s missing S-video, and for some reason it has a 3.5mm headphone jack. The picture on this is great and since it uses LED lighting you have darker darks and lighter lights than conventional LCD’s. The sound is pretty weak and using the surround option won’t help. If it had better sound and an s-video port or two it would have gotten a five. If you’re not picky and are just looking for an HDTV with no frills I recommend getting this.
VIZIO VM230XVT 23-Inch XVT-Series 23-Inch 1080p LED LCD HDTV
I bought this TV because my 20″ LG that I use in my home office was going out. I figured that if I was going to buy a new TV I might as well get the latest technology. I picked this one because of Vizio’s reputation. When I hooked it up I was truly amazed at the picture quality. I own 4 HDTVs and have replace all of them at least once, so I have owned at different times 1 projection LCD, 1 Plasma, and 6 CCFL backlight LCD TVs. The picture on this TV is truly great. The standard definition channels look almost as good as the HD channels did on any other HD TV I have owned and the high definition looks so real one would think they were looking out a window. I remember how impressed I was with my first HD TV, well this TV made an equal impression on me over my prior HD TVs.
The only annoyance is the fact that the volume bar does not go away when the sound is muted. I remains until you un-mute the TV. This annoys me, but is livable considering everything else.
The biggest advantages to LED LCD over CCFL LCD are the power consumption, the expected life of the backlight, and the picture quality. This TV is advertised as only drawing 30W but my UPS tells me it only draws 26W. The weakest link to a CCFL LCD TV is the backlight. It is what goes first most of the time, but LEDs last virtually forever so I will have to see what the next weakest link will be that will cause me to have to replace this TV. I expect this TV to last for at least five years before needing replacement, but time will only tell.