Do all LCD TVs suck this bad?

I have gad 2 LCD TVs in the past 2 years:
Westinghouse SK32H540S, this thing was the biggest mistake I ever made bought it for $50 with a bad inverter, I now know why they offed it for cheap, the inverters usually blow up after a few months.
Now I have a Sylvania 6626lct and after a whopping 3 days the MSNBC bar is stuck. My CRT TV has minor issues but has gone strong for over 10 years! Why do these things suck so much!!!

 

I'd try buying a Samsung but I'm sure there are better displays out there.

 

You get what you pay for when it comes to TVs/monitors. If it's really cheap, there's probably a reason.

 

I sense that we will see some Toshiba advertisement soon

 

Oh this is just great, leave my PS2 for ten f****** minutes and now "Browser" is stuck too, I'm just guessing the weird grid is from my pac-man session earlier.

 

If you buy cheap no name LCD screens then you'll get a shit product. What do you expect? I can't even say I've ever heard of Westinghouse or Sylvania. Well, actually there is that girl’s toy range Sylvania Family

If you want cheap but quality, go and buy an ACER screen or something. I use a 17" full HD Acer (or is it Asus?) screen for my PC. Been using it every day for the last 2 years and never had a problem with it. Great image, wonderful contrast and just a good all round monitor. It doesn't have any speakers in it though so you will need a dedicated amp or PC speakers depending on what you use it for.

 

Westinghouse, as in George Westinghouse? The dude who bought Nikola Tesla's patents?

 

I wish ASUS would make TVs. I have a 22" ASUS monitor, and I love it. I'm contemplating getting their 27" WQHD model.

 

Some suck less than others, but overall LCD is just an inferior technology for video. For text/productivity however it's excellent so it should have been relegated to computers. IMO it's very unfortunate that LCD TV have been pushed so hard over the years, and especially that DLP have been disparaged. Like with everything laymen drive the market.

 

Yes, however the brand is just one of many that has gone down hill

 

You have a stuck image on a LCD? that's odd.

Westinghouse are shit, when I worked at best buy they were literally there just for the holidays. Not worth anything.

 

The moral of the story is, you pay cheap you get cheap. I have a TEAC 42" LED tv, was about $1100, I thought it was pretty bad.. Util I found the SETTINGS mwahahahahaaa! (picture seemed a bit dark, found the backlight control and now I'm all set


also "whoho my 100th post haha"

 

There's plenty of great LCD TVs out there, you get what you pay for with those no-name brands. Personally, I'd stick to brands like Samsung, Panasonic Sony and LG.

 

The Sylvania looked much better at the goodwill I got it at.

 

Be careful with an LG one, not sure if it's the same for over there or not but LG seem to hire an external company to do repairs to products that are still covered under warranty - problem is, these guys are useless assholes that tend to take forever in actually confirming they've recieved a part provided by LG and to do the actual repairs and what happened with us was - they also damaged the television that was taken for repairs on the return delivery.

(It was a plasma though and we only got it solved this year after the useless external repair company had multiple complaints from us as well as LG getting complaints from us as well despite the external company was swearing they never took our television for repair despite that both LG and myself had it documented quite clearly).

So, just be wary of that - though if it happens to you and it takes longer than a year and/or it seems like the repair company may be waiting for the television's warranty to expire then do be sure to remember to lodge a consumer affairs sort of complaint if anything along the same line arises.

Other than that, I do have to agree with the suggestions FireAza gave and when you do look at LCDs - please check the colour menu and what it's having it's output at - I have a cheap no-name type brand LCD but it's audio output when connected to a cable t.v. box is shit (probably the cable t.v. box) but it's fucking loud on any game console connected but it looks eye-burningly bright and coloured so either way you may need to correct the colour profiles.

Though if you mainly use a PS3 or something, the Sony t.v. would be a plus since you can also just turn particular models on with the PS3 controller as well if you ever lose the remote.

 

So I bought a 42" HDTV on craigslist for $25 USD. Catch, TV needed a Step-Up, only component worked and it was a EUR/PAL model.
It took me almost 2 weeks to find out the model number and maker since it had not stickers, brand, nothing to ID the TV.
Turns out it was a Vestel and was able to find a code to access the service menu. Once in the the service menu I was able to enable 4 HDMI ports, 2 RGB SCART ports, 1 VGA Port, 2 Component Ports (Only one worked), 2 S-Video/Composite Ports.
Was also able to enable Auto and Manual Video Format Switching which supports: NTSC, PAL, PAL60, SECAM.
I had it for six months and love it. Quality is great and older systems look fantastic.
Wish they sold all HDTV like this worlwide, with the ability to choose video signal and with RGB SCART and S-Video.

You might want to look into VESTEL HDTVs

 

Everyone here will be just saying how their tv is the best, because they decided to get it, so I'll join in. I bought a bravia tv set (KDL-32E4000), like 4 years ago, and it was the best purchase I made since then. It has every input imaginable, ant it just looks damn great.

 

Hmm the only Westinghouse I know of is Fridges/freezers and Sylvania does lighting.

We have (an older) Sony XBR40 (LCD) and it has never missed a beat. It is tied into the PS3 and Muteki 7.2 system and yes it is handy being able to use the one remote.

Neighbour is onto his 3rd "no-name" LCD due to faulty units (typically just out of the 1 yr warranty and repair parts being unavailable).

 

Westinghouse? Sylvania? Did they also have Panaphonics, Magnetbox and Sorny at low, low prices?

In all seriousness you get what you pay for, and budget sets are a false economy for the most part. My first LCD was a budget set, developed audio problems within 2 weeks. Swapped it for the same model and that developed a black bar on the screen within months.

Finally spent a little more on a Panasonic and it's not had a problem in 5 years. Pay a little more for quality, and you'll get quality.

 

Brands aside, people really need to "study" before buying a TV.

When i got my first HDTV back in 2010, a Samsung 40", i read lots of reviews and owners opinions. Then i went to stores i saw the picture quality myself, but not just on those fancy videos they use to sell the TVs. Asked the seller to show up regular SD content, air TV, cable, sports (to check motion image quality) and so on.

I started with 5 models with different brands ended up with just 2. A Sony and a Samsung. Reason i got the Samsung? I liked the image quality more, plus the Sony had tons of complains of "clouding" (black level affect by uneven backlighting).

In the end it's up to personal opinion, but buying a TV these days without seeing it first is gambling.