The LG22LH2000 is a great HD ready digital television very much suited to a smaller room. With a 22inch screen it is ideal for a bedroom or a kitchen. Being HD ready you can receive the new high quality and sound from the latest HD ready channels offering you more quality and higher resolution from your picture.

This offering from LG also comes with Freeview built in so you can receive channels including ITV2, E4, BBC3, and Film4, plus 24 digital radio stations, with no contract and no satellite dish and no additional set top box.

Sound wise the 22LH2000 has a front bezel that works as a speaker, replacing the normal speaker grill. With the Invisible Speaker System, the speakers are embedded in strategic spots underneath and around the front bezel which means they enhance the audio by increasing the ‘sweet spot’ to give a wider and richer sound field. This speaker system provides a clean and fashionable design compared with traditional side or bottom speaker designs.

It also comes with Clear Voice 2 Technology which adjusts the sound balance to emphasise voices and reduce background noise. This is particularly useful when watching films where it is difficult to hear voices over the background sound such as in an action sequence.

This television is also low energy sufficient and is part of the Energy Saving Recommended scheme. To access this scheme products have to meet strict criteria to ensure that they are amongst the most efficient in the market place

Connection wise the television comes with 1 HDMI connection, 2 SCART sockets, a PC input socket as well as Composite and Headphone sockets.

The Good
The television is easy to use and install, has a great picture quality for its size and good sound quality. It is ideal for a kitchen work surface or bedroom as a smaller TV suited to those rooms. There are ample connections.

The Bad
The build quality isn’t the best but at the price you pay this is still a good television for the price.

Conclusion
Not a bad offering from LG. While on the budget side, you can get a better television but expect to pay more. As previously stated would suit a kitchen or bedroom.

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We managed to lay our hands on what appears to be a very popular LCD TV, the Toshiba Regza 37RV635D. This model is selling like hot cakes at the moment so we were eager to have a look see and find out what all the fuss is about. Read on for our full report ..

The Good

From pulling the 37RV635D out of the box to having it up and running took us a grand total of 10 minutes, attaching the unit to the stand, hooking up the cables and running through the on-screen setup was both very easy and well documented so full marks to Toshiba for that.

Toshiba have touted their new resolution+ technology to anyone who wil listen, but until now we haven’t had the oppurtunity to try it out. Resolution+ upscaling takes everyday standard definition content and instantly enhances it to virtually high definition picture quality by improving edge detail and texture.

We started off testing with a standard definition SKY box and DVD player, and were blown away by the picture quality, running side by side with another similar specced LCD TV you could really tell the difference, the picture looked crisper with a great colour depth, and this was with only a standard def input. Playing HD content and the 37RV635D shone through you could tell it was a full 1080p TV.

The 37RV635D also comes packed with an Auto-view feature that automatically adjusts picture settings depending on not only the room lighting, which is common feature on quality LCD TVs these days, but also the content shown on screen. This feature eliminates the need to constantly have to adjust the backlight brightness and colour settings in order to find the best viewing experience in all environments. We tried this out by increasing and decreasing the lighting in the room and it did work very well, providing a near perfect picture in all situations.

We then hooked up a PS3 via HDMI to test Toshiba’s ‘Game Mode’ feature which automatically picks the best aspect ratio amongst other things and it did the job perfectly, nothing was lopped off the edges and the picture clarity was amazing to say the least.

The built-in freeview guide was possibly one of the best we have seen, being both intuitive and easy to use, showing at a glance a full timeline of programs and times. The freeview reciever itself seemed to pick up more channels on setup than a lot of other tellys and produced a great quality picture.

The sound quality from the Regza 37RV635D’s onboard speakers was surprisingly quite good considering their size, don’t get us wrong it won’t rattle your fillings but it was better than most of the TV’s in it’s category, with enough options to have you fiddling for hours fine tuning it.

External connections include 4, yes 4! HDMI connectors, 2 Scart inputs, S-Video and component connectors, a CAM module slot, an Optical digital output socket, headphone connector, USB JPeg viewer, a D type PC input and an audio from PC socket, which is enough to suit just about any household.

Also the remote is well laid out, with fairly large buttons and the functions printed a good size too so that you can actually read it without squinting.

The Bad

We struggled to pick fault with the 37RV635D, it really is that good, but in the interests of keeping this review impartial then this is the best we could do, the Toshiba logo is lit up on this model and may prove a distraction to some, although it can be easily switched off via the options.

Conclusion

Toshba have come up trumps with the Regza 37RV635D, it represents excellent value for money over other 1080p TVs. Its aesthetically pleasing on the eye and feature rich, for the money you can’t go wrong. If you have one of these on your shortlist then just buy it, you certainly won’t be disappointed.

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We put the Samsung LE32B450C4 to the test and give you the low-down on what’s good and not so good. The name Samsung is renound with top quality products, so does this puppy carry on that tradition, read on to find out.

The Good

Initially setting up the LE32B450C4 is a breeze and couldn’t be easier, run through a couple of questions it then scurries off to find all the Freeview channels it can with it’s built in receiver and then you’re good to go, 5 minutes and job done.

Picture quality is clear and crisp when viewing freeview and it just gets better if you are able to hook up Sky, we were unable to tell the difference between this TV and a higher end 1080p model in terms of picture. Hooking up a Xbox 360 really brought the Samsung LE32B450C4 out of it’s self, with it’s ‘high contrast game mode’ feature our games looked amazingly sharp, and yes, we were only playing for research purposes, honest.

On screen options are plentiful, with the ability to fine tune the picture and sound so that you can get it just as you want it. The Freeview interface was nicely laid out and easy to navigate, enabling you to quickly find that programme you’re after.

The SRS Trusurround HD feature on the LE32B450C4 produced a great sound from it’s 2 built-in speakers, completing the viewing experience nicely, but of course as with any TV if you want the very best in sound you will invest in a home cinema kit to run along side it.

Connections on the TV include one scart socket, two HDMI connectors at the back and another on the side of the unit and component connections at the rear.

The supplied remote is well laid out and easy to use, not cluttered like some these days.

Specs:

The Bad

Only having 1 Scart socket may present a problem for some with more than one old style DVD or even VCR player that only have a Scart option, but if you are seriously considering this TV then what better excuse to upgrade them as well! Once you have seen the difference in picture quality you won’t want to go back.

Conclusion

Samsung have produced a top quality TV which is also excellent value for money, we cannot fault the picture quality and usability at all. Provided the scart limitation doesn’t affect you then you can’t go far wrong purchasing the Samsung LE32B450C4

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