First Impressions

Verdict
The good -Happy with picture quality and TV for the price I paid.
The bad - The speakers are not that good. If you don't have a set-top box, lack of audio out may affect you if you want to hook up TV sound to a home theatre system or the TV speakers are the sole source of sound reproduction.

Picture quality
The default picture quality is a bit saturated and has too much red colour. There are 3 built in picture setting which you can choose which are all bad + a user one which you can define. You can turn down the saturation and then control 3 primary colours to your liking. This takes a bit of mucking around as you tend to change it for different programs and inputs.

Picture Ratings
My ratings are based on 10 being a perfect picture I am happy with. Since I didn’t pay top dollar, I don’t expect to get 10/10.

Standard definition (via set top box) via Composite video output 6/10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_video
Normal TV over a good antenna via Coaxial cable 6/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coax_cable
Standard definition (via set top box) via S-Video output 5/10. But I think this is because of my set top box as the output from the DVD player via S-Video was O.K.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_video
DVD via component output is 7/10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_video
Computer output via D-sub 15pin - I will give it 8/10

HDMI – Not tested

Sound
A big negative is that there is no audio out. But I have a set top box so I can get TV audio out from that. The speakers are quite small and there isn’t much base with even with max base. I would give 4/10 for sound but it is not an issue if you hook up the DVD/set top output to stereo / home theatre system.

The wall mounting brackets are flimsy (but do the job well) and are worth probably $10. It is not tilt adjustable. But it does the job.
If you don’t plan to hang it, the stand is a bit wobbly due the design of the removable stand - but again it does the job.

D-sub
Windows only offered two resolution when the TV was plugged in.
The first was 800*600, I can’t remember if the second was 1024*768 or the claimed 1280x720. Either way the picture was too big for a such a big screen. So it is O.K for a slide show but to use it as a computer screen would not be suitable as the images are too big. Also I could not extend a window to the TV (unsupported was displayed on the TV).
12/7/07
The manual says that set the resolution before plugging in the computer, which I did not do.
Have not re-tested.

Warranty
No information about warranty claims are provided in documentation.

To be continued later..

Installation

To be updated

The pictures of the TV

TV without the speakers.

The purchase from eBay

It was a short and sweet auction. It was the day after Anzac and I think most people were getting over hangovers hence the low price.

Item title: NEW 32" 81cm LCD TV KOGAN x32 Samsung panel 1080i HDMI
Currently: AU $740.00
Time left: Auction has ended.

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