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Customer Review :
Great TV and Delivery
Bought 4 TV's this year for Xmas, this one was for myself. Needed a smaller TV and this one worked perfectly. Picture is excellent with Verizon FIOS and HD. Sound isn't the best but not bad. Better than the LN52A550. The touch of red is very suttle and when I ordered was a bit worried about it but is nice and can barely tell it is there unless you look with just the right lighting. Now I would prefer the touch of red if given the choice. Delivery took about a week with CEVA and had no issues. I set the TV up but they helped inspect it and will carry it wherever you want it. Setup is simple as well, just connect and auto scan. I also payed a bit more and ordered from Amazon versus the others since Amazon will let you return it if problems (30 days) and the others typically will not. Have had it for 1 1/2 months and is main TV in kids play room, watched daily. Great TV.
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Right size Right picture Right Set Up
Very suitable in a small room. I did extensive research and went for a step above the rest. It has the best specs of any 32", and it looks like a big TV in my 10x12 TV room. The red highlights dress the room 'classy'. Wall mounted it with a full motion well made mountSanus Systems MF215-B1 15-Inch to 37-Inch LCD TV 15-Inch Extending Full Motion Wall Mount (Black) 36" from floor to bottom of TV. Connected my DVD with component cables and movies look fast and fantastic. The TV sound is very decent plus used the audio out connections to play through my new compact ilive combo cd-ipod-radio iLive iH328B Dual-CD Home Music System with iPod Dock (Black) speakers. Yes, the ilive provides the tuner and the compact little stereo looks sharp beneath the TV. Because the room is small, I did not want furniture to overpower the TV or the room. I found a Saunder nightstand 18dx23wx23h which sits pretty beneath the TV. It looks like a mini entertainment stand and when I can find one, I'll get a small media tower to go beside it. Installed a new OTA antenna in my attic Antennas Direct 43XG and wish I had bought the 91XG which has slightly higher gain which would help a lot for channel 16 on the low end of the 'dial'. Used 52' of RG6. Stations are all uhf and within 15 compass degrees of each other 13 to 40 miles away. The picture is really really nice on this TV.
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samsung LN32A650
to the person who is having trouble with OneCAll for the samsung tV. I think samsung's website has the firmware update you can download or they will send it to you. I hope you can get the bug-fix without having to send you tv anywhere. Then it should work perfectly from what i understand. Sorry i couldnt figure out how to reply to a post
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Very Pleased With Product and Shipping
Ordered the product 24 Jan 09 received it 28 Jan - ahead of schedule - using the free shipping. While I had a little difficulty making the link with my DVR it was as much my fault as it was the documentation. I wish the documentation would have included the remote codes so I could have programmed the cable remote more easily.
The picture is very good. Easy to set up on the stand.
On setting up the cable, I needed to press the SOURCE button on the remote, select the connection to the cable box, press the enter button, and then use the cable remote to watch TV channels. Using the TV remote would reset the source to the TV. Possibly a learning curve for me. Overall, I am very very pleased.
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Great TV and YES it does NOT have 120hz....READ THE DESCRIPTION
This TV has an excellent picture. The colors are vivid and the black level is fantastic. There is no blur and the sharpness and clarity of this TV is perfect for any room, including a living room.
Yes there is no 120hz, but this was manufactuired for those that do not care for the 120hz. A faster moving picture than what i normally see is not my idea of good TV, sorry.
All of you that rate this less than 4 or 5 due to your ineptitude to research things online is outrageous.
To possible buyers of this TV, if you want a great TV with a fantastic picture and you don't care about 120hz refresh rate or do not want that, then this is the TV for you.
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Editorial Review :
At 42 inches, it's a whole living room of pure HD entertainment. The Westinghouse 42" 1080p monitor is a true 1080p monitor, combining leading-edge technology with stylish design, to deliver the ultimate in entertainment enjoyment. The LVM-42w2 is ideal for all viewing environments, with greater versatility than plasma, especially for daytime viewing. Designed to be future-proof, this big 1080p monitor is equipped with 6 HD connections. If you're into maximum entertainment, it's the only display that should be connected to your HD cable box, satellite or multimedia PC.
Customer Review :
Horrible Build Quality
Bought the TV because it was one of the cheapest 1080p units around at the time. But I've realized you get what you paid for. First, the HDMI is horrible, it makes my PS3 signal flash uncontrollably. There's also no dedicated HDMI button on the controller; it cycles between 3 DVI/HDMI modes. That means it won't work properly with my Logitech 880 remote. Then, my first unit failed on me with a screen problem.
Long story short, I got 2 separate replacements, and they were both refurb units in worse condition than my original box, and both failed (the first one was dead on arrival with a broken speaker and messed-up colors, which means they didn't even test the thing before shooting it out the door). The second box failed about 2 months out of warranty, so I'm stuck with a $1500 piece of junk. Suffice it to say I'm never buying Westinghouse ever again.
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My TV is awesome
First off I have to say that we did not buy this at Amazon. However we ended up paying exactly the same price, should have gone to Amazon.
I bought this monitor the first week of February of 07, it arrived a few days later and I immediately put it on a TV stand in the living room where it resided for 7 months. I then wall mounted it using a peerless (SP850-S). The wall mount kit is perfect, it pans, tilts, swivels and telescopes. It is heavy duty and yet surprisingly thin. It Telescopes 10" from the wall or lies flat at under 2".
The TV is hooked up to an HDTV system running on a (nearly) silent PC using Beyond TV and Beyond Media. I have a media server in the basement collecting and distributing HDTV as well as SDTV and DVDs to all the HTPCs in the house. I run it at 1080p on the VGA input. The DVI input looks better, has less noise and is sharper, but for some reason the HTPC does not like the DVI output. So I use VGA.
It is hard to tell the difference between DVI and VGA most of the time, but you can tell sometimes. Even at that the picture is amazing, far sharper than my dads pioneer 50" plasma and without that annoying glare to boot. The picture has been reliable and we have never had any problems with black levels or with ghosting (movement blur). I have played PC games in full 1080p on it without any problems. The PC running the games was taxed a bit with that resolution, but the Westinghouse never faltered.
It takes about 230-250 watts of power to run under normal circumstances. This does not seem to vary when the speakers are muted or the volume is turned down. Nor does it matter what the TV is playing. What does matter is the backlight levels. At 100 it takes 250 watts, at 50 (the lowest I have used it) it takes about 240) and if the screen is all black it takes only 230. When the TV goes to "sleep" meaning that it has no input on its current source and so it goes into power save mode, it takes only 3-4 watts of power. If you press the off button it takes <1 watt.
I am noticing some dark banding lines when using the VGA, but I do not believe this is due to the monitor itself but rather to the video card of the PC since if I put a different PC on that same interface the lines go away. But the other PC is not running 1920x1080 (1080p) so it is hard to tell if the PC is really at fault.
In the last 9 months the cost has dropped on this by $125 and a new model has come out with an integrated HDTV tuner. Even knowing that I think this is the best HDTV purchase around right now, providing the best value while giving truely impressive HD performance. This is not to say it does not have its problems, it has a terrible remote control for example and a terrible on screen menu system. But hopefully you never have to use either of them other than setting up the TV. Also it does not look as good as some of the higher end HDTVs, but at half the cost of most of them I am willing to sacrifice a tiny bit of overall picture quality.
You will not regret this purchase unless you get a DOA TV, in which case you might wish you had bought a different brand, I hear that Westinghouse is not the easiest company to deal with and I have noticed that many of the replacements seem as bad as those they replaced. But from where I sit it is worth a shot since this HDTV is a serious contender for the best HDTV I have ever seen, and is a shoe in for the best I (or anyone I know) have ever owned.
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Not worth the Customer Service you are bound to have to deal with
I bought this TV because it was 1080p at a good price. I received the TV quickly, and for about 6 months, my TV experience was positive. Then the TV started powering down on its own. I quickly jumped on the web to check, and indeed the Westinghouse TV has had power issues in the past, albeit different than what I was seeing. I should have actually checked for bad press before buying, but hindsight being 20/20, I didn't. So I contacted Westinghouse the first time.
The gentleman that answered was very helpful. I was dreading having to come up with a box to ship it back for repair, but he found a local repair facility. So I dropped it with them on August 23rd. They swapped out the power supply, a week later, the TV still had the issue. They then had to order a "logic board", which was going to take a month. A MONTH? I called Westinghouse the second time. Told them what was going on, they told me that they couldn't do anything for me, unless I went to pick the TV up from their recommended local repair shop, ship it to them, they would repair and send it back, but according to the "customer service" spokesman, it may take longer than a month.
Flash forward to the "month" later. I called the repair center. Again, they were super nice, but informed me that it would be another month. ????What???? I called Westinghouse back. I was livid. I explained that it had been a more than a month. I got a supervisor that basically told me that Westinghouse had no other way of helping me. I had brought up Apple computer as an example of a customer service story that went the right way (them shipping a replacement before receiving the original). He said, "well that's why they cost so much, and I can't afford them. We don't do that here, and can't." Okay, so what can you do I asked. Well, you can call the repair facility and tell them about this other part distributor that we deal with, that may make it go faster.
They wanted me to do it. Okay. I called the repair center again. They had received the part (over a couple of days here). The swapped it in immediately, and the problem still persisted. (Takes a day to see the issue). So they now say its the panel, and it has to be shipped back to Westinghouse.
I called Westinghouse for the 4th time. The said, ok, we will take it from here. We will contact the rental center, get the TV and ship a replacement to you.
I went on a business trip for about a week, called Westinghouse 10 days later. I asked what was going on, they didn't know. After waiting for them to find out, I was told that they would contact the Repair Center and take it from here....Deja vu....I informed them that they already said they would do that. The gentleman informed me that they had sent an email to corporate and were waiting for a response. Ten days ago. When I asked when I would have been contacted if I wouldn't have called, they said, we don't know. They did tell me that they only really have 2% of there TVs returned, and that I was "rare". So 200 TVs bad out of 10,000. hmmmm.
As it stands today, 5 or 6 phone calls later, I have no TV. I have no idea of when the TV may be replaced/repaired. Best guess is another month. And the Westinghouse customer support supervisors are without a doubt the worst customer service I have ever experienced.
Consider yourselves warned. And if you do decide to throw caution to the wind and buy a Westinghouse anyway, I really hope it works for you.
-->latest: I still have no TV as of November 3rd, 2007, but I have gotten 1 phone call from Westinghouse saying they were sending a box to the Repair Center to have them ship it back.
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WORST TV I HAVE EVER OWNED!!!
This TV is a Showcase of horrific flaws in manufacturing and design! Where to begin...
1. The TV has vertical lines on both sides of the set 3-4 inches from edge.
2. There is also a vertical line that has showed up in the middle of the screen, that is ALWAYS visible and distracting while watching anything.
3. The HDMI input is CRAP! I have a PS3 (more than 1, and its not the PS3, it's the TV that has the problem.) and I have to physically unplug and re-plug the hdmi cable at least 10 times, at most I've counted 32 times, just to get it to work. Westinghouse says its a problem with the HDCP, well its a BIG problem. However, they do not seem to think so, seeing how they refuse to fix it.
4. The Component video inputs are also defective. They have a ghosting/rainbow effect when viewing any source over these inputs.
5. The remote control is also defective, or I should say the IR receiver on the TV. The remotes signal will only get through 30% of the time. And you end up having to press the same button 2-3 times, just to get it to change inputs.
6. Worst for last! I have addressed all these issues with Westinghouse, and the only way to have SOME of the above mentioned problems fixed is to pay, at my own expense, for the shipping of this TV across country. Which would cost me literally half of what I payed for the actual TV.
It should also be mentioned that I have used only HIGH quality cables, Monster Cable 1000 Series, HDMI and Component. I also have been a Manager at Radioshack for years and have a lot of knowledge in the area of Home Theater. This TV has let me learn a wonderful lesson. NEVER CHEAP out on a TV. Save!!! to buy one of good quality, or don't buy one at all!
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I still love it after 15 months
I read the poor reviews and took the legitimate ones seriously, so when I purchased this bad boy I crossed my fingers hoping there would be no problems (all the complaints that seemed "legit" to me were based on poor service). Much to my relief I've been using my Westinghouse LVM-42w2 for well over a year ... and I still love it every day.
My opinionated "PROs":
- aesthetically pleasing (other "budget" TVs are UGLY TO THE EXTREME)
- great functional "Spine Design" for inputs
- picture looks GREAT to me (see below for details on content I view)
- I can turn off the lighted "W" logo ... but I choose not to! ;-)
- the on-screen menu (though I rarely use it) is attractive and FAR LESS gaudy than most other OSDs I've seen on HDTVs
My opinionated "CONs":
- yes, the remote is utterly suck-tastic, and...
- I would like to never use the remote, but HAVE TO for input switching because...
- input switching is painfully long, so I'd rather hit "DVI" twice on the Westy remote than "input" 6 times on my Comcast universal remote
- there is no "stretch" zoom option which allows wide-screen letterboxed SD content to be stretched to fill the screen (of course, I rarely watch SD content anymore....)
- I experience light "bleeding" in the corners ... but I've seen this on many-an-LCD monitor (including my two computer monitors, both of which are Samsung), and it seems to dissipate with time as the Westy "warms up"
So yeah, there are qualifiers to just about all of my cons. Other people might point out that this doesn't have a built-in tuner or more HDMI inputs, etc; but I wasn't looking for features other than what this offers, so I'm happy as can be with it.
What I watch:
Comcast HD cable runs into the HDMI port. I did find that when I ran it via HDMI-to-DVI into one of the DVI ports the signal would only come through in 480p and be both letter- and pillar-boxed. I highly suspect this is because of a weak cable signal. Via the HDMI input my cable content looks fantastic, and I watch a lot of primetime HD shows as well as all the premium movie channels (HBOHD, ShowtimeHD, CinemaxHD, and StarzHD). All of it is 720p or 1080i; all looks great.
Apple TV runs HDMI into my Samsung DVD/home-theatre box which then runs HDMI-to-DVI into DVI1. DVDs are upconverted to 1080i and look quite good, in my opinion (especially considering that I've sworn off of most other SD content). The Apple TV also upconverts its content to 1080i and I've ripped many DVDs to it at their native resolutions which look very nearly as good as the actual DVDs. HD rental movies via the Apple TV (though 720p at the source) look as good or better than the HD movies I watch via the Comcast cable box.
PlayStation 2 runs into Component1. Once the PS2's output was set to widescreen it looked just about as good as PS2 can look. Rock Band and Guitar Hero have seen may hours on this screen.
A Nintendo Wii also got a run via a component input on this screen with great success.
As you may have noticed I have not had the opportunity to test any "true HD" (1080p) sources on my Westy, but I can honestly report that 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i signals are all handled quite nicely.
Even if I win the lottery and can afford the greatest of the great "name brand" HDTVs I can honestly say that I will also continue to use this Westinghouse until the day one of us dies ;-)
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Customer Review :
ok I guess but could be great
First no off switch - that really bugs me. I know it turns off but never seems to.
Second battery life -there is none. pain to open and replace a AAA batery every time I need to use it.Come on now 3 hours batery life? whats up with that?
Uploading is not a simple drag and drop. This is a biggie. If I was to buy a mp3 player it must be drag and drop. who has time for another software product.It works, but I bought it to make my life easier but it hardly does that.But hey it was cheap for 64 megs.
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w00t!
dude, i got this as a gift, without the headphones though, and i found that the baby yepp program was sooo simple. sure, the 32MB space is a blow, but if you encode in mp3PRO using dBpowerAmp Music Converter ( http://www.dbpoweramp.com ), it makes this tiny thing an awesome mp3 player. you can get a 6MB file down to 2MB with OK quality, i mean, it aint perfect 192Kbps, but it sure sounds good for a 2MB file. trust me, this is a greatt buy!
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Not for working out
It is a nice product with no way of carrying except in you pocket. Not good for someone who wants to use it to run and work out with.
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Fantastic
This is a great product. DO NOT buy the Nike or Rio MP3 players. They are horrible. The comments about battery life are valid. Must sure you keep plenty of batteries in your gym bag. You'll need them.
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Best for working out
This is pretty awesome - I use it working out all the time, and the sound quality, particularly with some kickass headphones, is great. It even has some basic settings to mess with the sound type. The only difficult part is the large program - it also has the basic version of the interface program, which is much easier to use. Overall, though, this is some of the best money you can spend. I would recommend taking the battery out after every time you use it so you don't plow through AAAs -if you do that, you can get about 3 or 4 hours out of a battery.
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