15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Not ready for Prime Time,
October 23, 2011 Mike - See all my reviews
This review is from: Haier 26-Inch LED HDTV (LE26B13200) (Electronics)
First, for disclosure, my friend bought this Haier unit on a one day sale from Fry's Electronics for just under $200. So no reflection on this Amazon vendor. Just want to warn others about this TV.
Per my pun in the title, I'm not very happy with this "TV." Truly, it isn't ready for Prime Time.
The picture took a little tweaking (default sharpness is WAY too high), and surprisingly, even with strong cable signals, you have to set the Noise filter to "Weak" (as opposed to "Off") or else you get jpeg artifacts (or something like them) floating in backgrounds and old analog channels looked pastel-ish. Once you tweak it, the picture is okay and the sound is fine.
But the real killer is the tuner itself, and somewhat related to it, the slowish, sometimes forgetful brains of the TV.
The tuner has problems locking on frequency on the higher channel numbers, say in the 120's. Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. (As an Electrical Engineer, I...Read more
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
hardly a TV set,
February 20, 2012 zadeni - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Haier 22-Inch LED HDTV (LE22B13800) (Electronics)
The TV cannot find channels when you perform auto scan. Only if you have a dish, you can use it as a TV. Having said that, I must admit that it is a nice monitor for PC. You can also view your digital photos on it via USB, the quality of the display is pretty high. But I am still pretty much disappointed since I intended to use it for my cable network.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Unbeatable for the money!,
March 13, 2012 M. Chavez (Ceres, CA. US) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Haier 22-Inch LED HDTV (LE22B13800) (Electronics)
I read people complaining about the remote or how it can't find channels. People are going to complain about everything, it's the world we live in. I'm leaving this review based on what should matter for a tv/monitor this size and price. First of all I didn't buy it expecting it to work like a $2,000 LED. The first thing I did out of the box was connect it to my blu-ray player and watched a movie. The picture quality is amazing at 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio. I couldn't find another tv this small by any manufacturer with this level of picture. If another company makes one this small this quality it would surely cost $100 or more than I paid. What I was finding in the price range was horrible quality such as 1,000:1 or 14,000:1
My purpose for buying this tv is to use it as the main monitor for the surveillance system I just purchased. I can say as a computer technician/videophile I absolutely love it. It completely exceeds my expectations. I can see wonderfully clear images...Read more
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