What do you guys think to this? - 32" HDTV for £389 at OcUK !!

I have to agree with the peeps on an unknown brand. I would not purchase anything other than the top manufacturers with a good track record. At the end of the day most LCD manufacturers buy in their panels most of which are Japanese origin, but frankly I would say these are of older technology (mainstream handdowns i.e. what Goodmans/Misumi were good at doing). But I would be wary should their be any dead pixels which IMO is not satisfactory even with just one, I took two PSP's back and in the end demanded a refund becuase of 1 dead pixel. Likewise I would not buy from a internet retailer who would just throw the ISO standard at me.

Some very good deals here if only they were Sony/Pani's! :D
 
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thepharcyde said:
I have to agree with the peeps on an unknown brand. I would not purchase anything other than the top manufacturers with a good track record. At the end of the day most LCD manufacturers buy in their panels most of which are Japanese origin, but frankly I would say these are of older technology (mainstream handdowns i.e. what Goodmans/Misumi were good at doing). But I would be wary should their be any dead pixels which IMO is not satisfactory even with just one, I took two PSP's back and in the end demanded a refund becuase of 1 dead pixel. Likewise I would not buy from a internet retailer who would just throw the ISO standard at me.

Some very good deals here if only they were Sony/Pani's! :D
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If enough people buy them, and report back that the quality is up to a decent standard, then id be happy to purchase one, i dont care that its not a big named brand. I just dont wana be the first to purchase one and find out that it was a mistake.
 
I'd like to see some user comments posted back here.

Atm my whole living room is aimed at my 20" viewsonic and while it works really well I'd kinda like to be able to use my PC when my Mrs wants to watch telly.

Get a bonus from work this year to so this could be just the ticket if the price is on the sweet spot :D
 
thepharcyde said:
I have to agree with the peeps on an unknown brand. I would not purchase anything other than the top manufacturers with a good track record. At the end of the day most LCD manufacturers buy in their panels most of which are Japanese origin, but frankly I would say these are of older technology (mainstream handdowns i.e. what Goodmans/Misumi were good at doing). But I would be wary should their be any dead pixels which IMO is not satisfactory even with just one, I took two PSP's back and in the end demanded a refund becuase of 1 dead pixel. Likewise I would not buy from a internet retailer who would just throw the ISO standard at me.

Some very good deals here if only they were Sony/Pani's! :D
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But if you buy from t'internet you can just send it back for a full refund under distance selling regulations if you're not happy with it. Where's the risk. I really cannot see enough of a difference between the latest Sammy 32" panels and my cheapo Medion (which even comes with a longer warranty as standard) to justify the significant hike in price you get when you go for one of the "better" brands.
 
But if you buy from t'internet you can just send it back for a full refund under distance selling regulations if you're not happy with it. Where's the risk
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You have to hope the retailer you're dealing with doesn't refuse you and require you to go down legal avenues (I've had that before non computer releated items) Pretty stressful, instead could have gone for something quality in the first place.
 
willd58 said:
If enough people buy them, and report back that the quality is up to a decent standard, then id be happy to purchase one, i dont care that its not a big named brand. I just dont wana be the first to purchase one and find out that it was a mistake.
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totally agree with this.
if its decent standard and costs a lot less than a big brand name then its worth it - but as said... personally i don't want to be the guinea pig :o

reviews i've read for these LCD's are good, but there always seems to be something holding them back.
 
You get what you pay for really.

I'm sure it's a fine LCD, but it won't compare to even the mid-priced Samsung / Toshiba models. Sounds obvious I know. If it were me I'd save up a couple of hundred more and buy a really nice Tosh or Sammy, the differences will be quite pronounced!

Will be interested to see how people get on with them though! :)
 
umm, 1366x768 is 16:9, not 15:9

1366/16 x 9 = 768. or 768.375 to be exact. it would have to be 1280 x 768 to be 15:9, or 1366 x 819

You friend cant add lol
 
Raider said:
I'm sure it's a fine LCD, but it won't compare to even the mid-priced Samsung / Toshiba models. Sounds obvious I know.
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Umm, id have to disagree with you on this, iv seen cheapo screen playing HD next to expensive ones and havnt been able to tell the difference.

Cost doesnt guarentee quality when it comes to electronics.
 
willd58 said:
Umm, id have to disagree with you on this, iv seen cheapo screen playing HD next to expensive ones and havnt been able to tell the difference.

Cost doesnt guarentee quality when it comes to electronics.
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HD feed will show less of a difference. SD will be a huge difference.

It depends where you saw the screens setup as well. Bear in mind that unless you were in a proffesional Hi-fi store, all the TVs were probably badly setup.

I've seen £2000 TVs look worse than £700 ones, purely because of staff incompetance. Unfortunately it's virtually impossible to A-B TVs, unless you know of an excellent local store. Best things to go on are reviews and other user's experiences.
 
i would say these are overpriced compared to the rebaged Technosonics (which are infact Thomsons) that you can get from a certain high street store now till xmas for £399
 
titaniumx3 said:
The 27" is 1280x720, while it is lower than 1366x768, wouldn't it actually look better with 720p content since there isn't any upsampling taking place?
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Technically yes I reckon, though whether you'd notice the difference is another matter :)

I have a 26" Viewsonic which is 1280x720 and it does look nice. The problem with these cheaper sets is generally lack of contrast (black are grey), lack of controls (I can't control the backlight level), lack of inputs, build quality, inbuilt scaler is usually not up to much.

I think the crappy inbuilt scaler is the reason why stuff through RGB and non-native res looks a bit ropey. Having a Snazio and some 1080i content I found the scaler in the Snazio to be much better than the TV itself, also using a PC and something like Nebula's DigiTV which does very good upscaling I was amazed at how much better Freeview looked :)

But as keeps being repeated you pays yer money and takes yer chances!
 
guyz guyz.well some dayz bak i was praising the amazing OCUK 32" .theres no doubt the qualities are amazing.but on saturday just 3 dayz afta i bought my tv,it developed some problems.trust me its very difficult to get technical support for this yusmart tv.the so called Digitest website dont deal with 32" tvs and overclockers technical support center,i dont even want to talk about them.they told me someone was gonna call me in bout 24 hours( starting from yesterday ) and up till now i havnt received a call from anyone.upon calling them and expressing my frustration they hung the phone on me guyz,, three bloody times.i am absolutely disgusted by this appaling service rendered from both overclockers and yusmart.
 
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