Sorry State TV
Written: Sep 20 '03
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Pros: Flat screen in a pretty silver frame. It turns on and off at your discretion.
Cons: See review; too numerous to summarize in 15 words.
The Bottom Line: Don't waste your money.
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| geoff-stoner's Full Review: Toshiba MW24FM1 24" FST Pure Flat TV/DVD/VCR Combo... |
Primitive and worthless.
Bulky and heavy, making installation problematic unless you just put it on a flat, open table (using a back-brace). Speakers on side frames of picture tube also spread actual width to 27", so a 24" console frame will be too small.
Once turned on, B/W programming comes out flat and grainy, with green tinge at times. Color, focus need resetting from "factory specs" but -
Customized settings options ridiculously hard to work. Have to go thru 4 screens using 2 separate buttons to get to picture options (bright, focus, color, tint, etc.) and, get this, if you take more than 5 seconds to check out your adjusted picture, the option times out & you have to go thru it all again to get back where you were cut off.
DVD player will only play commercial DVDs, not your archived or off-TV DVD-Rs (altho Sears advertises otherwise).
When you finish a commercial DVD, take it out of the tray and shut the tray, TV just sits there with a blank screen. You have to turn it off & back on again to get your TV picture back.
No place to hook up your LD player.
No S-Video.
Weak sound.
Probably more wrong but after 4 hours getting just this far into it, it wasn't worth exploring further. How any company could make a TV set with so few options for the videophile, and most of the ones it has so dysfunctional, boggles the mind.
Back it goes to the store.
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Amount Paid (US$): 499.99
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