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Westinghouse LVM-42W2 42″ 1080p LCD Video Monitor

The new Westinghouse LVM-42W2 Digital 42″ 1080p Monitor was designed to match the way you view high-definition. Its 1920 x 1080 resolution display with over 2 million pixels deliver a viewing experience that’s almost like being there. Introducing the exciting new Westinghouse Digital 42? 1080p Monitor, designed specifically to match the way you view high definition content.

This is the only display that should be connected to your HD cable box, satellite or multimedia PC! The LVM-42W2 includes a pair of 10 watt speakers and an integrated 10 watt subwoofer for a sound experience that makes you feel like you’re a part of your favorite shows and movies. Specifically optimized for use with the latest high definition sources. Don’t be trapped with only 1-choice. Westinghouse lets you attach all your favorite sources using uncompressed highest performance digital interfaces.

Multiple high-bandwidth digital-interfaces mean you can have HD digital cable, HD satellite and a digital game console. Additionally, desktop and notebook PC users can enjoy the same fat pipe and the industry best Genesis Display Perfection technology. Native/Optimum Resolution - 1920 x 1080 Supported PC Resolutions - 1920 x 1080, 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768 Twin 10 watt speakers, with 10 watt subwoofer Picture-In-Picture Inverse 3 - 2 pulldown Freezing Picture CCS (Cross Color Suppressor) 3D Noise Reduction 3D Video Processing&3D Comb Filter Response Time - 8 ms extreme rapid response for playing high-action videogames Connectors - S-Video, Composite Video, HDMI-HDCP, DVI-HDCP (2), YPbPr Component Video (2), VGA/D-Sub/RGB, Audio mini jack Lamp Life - 60,000 hours (about 27 years based on 6 hours per day viewing) Installation Options - 8 Hole pattern, 75mm x 75mm VESA pattern, 100mm x 100mm VESA pattern wall mounts Progressive Scan Aspect Ratio Conversion Color - Silver/Black Dimensions(HxWxD)

Customer Review: 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!

Customer Review: 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 1920×1080 (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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Westinghouse TX-42F430S 42″ 1080p LCD HDTV

1920×1080 Resolution / 5000:1 Dynamic Contrast / 8ms Screen Response / 16:9 Widescreen / 4 HDMI in / PC input / Bottom Speakers / NTSC ATSC

Customer Review: Great TV for the Price
Pros: Great Color Accuracy, Multiple HDMI inputs, Nice Design and appearance Cons: Standard Def performance This is a great tv for the price. The color accuracy is great. The menu options for tweaking the picture are excellent. I have Direct TV HD service and a HD DVD player hooked up. The HD DVD picture quality at 1080p is outstanding. For under $1000 dollars this is a great value for the money.

Customer Review: Excellent TV. Reasonable Price.
Pros- Excellent price. Great picture. Lots of inputs. Good picture adjustments. Cons- Poor bass response, closed captioning doesn’t work with all sources, no PIP I have had this TV for about 3 weeks and absolutely love it. Despite it’s minor setbacks I have really enjoyed it. My goal was to consolidate my PC and AV setups into one. I have heard that using PCs on plasmas can cause burn in so I opted for an LCD. I wasn’t looking for a very large display so I opted for a 37″-42″. I also didn’t want to spend a lot of money.

I checked out other reviews and the Westinghouse caught my eye. It didn’t rate extremely well in Consumer Reports, but I don’t put a lot of stock in just one review. I found other people who were very satisfied and decided to go with the Westinghouse 42″. I have Comcast HD service and the picture is phenomenal in HD. I also like the auto-adjust feature of the TV that tries to diplay the best picture size for the signal currently being viewed.

I had heard of problems attaching PCs to TVs but I have had no such problem. Now I DO have a Dell XPS 720C with Dual NVIDIA 8800 Ultra video cards so I can easily display the TVs native resolution of 1920 x 1080. Your PC probably won’t go that high, but I have tried other resolutions that work nearly as well. I’ve been playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on it and it looks spectacular. I will have to see how the TV fairs in the long haul, but so far I couldn’t be much happier, especially at less than $1,000.

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