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Westinghouse LTV-32w6 HD - 32" LCD TV - widescreen - 720p - HDTV - black, silver
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Westinghouse LTV-32w6 HD - 32" LCD TV - widescreen - 720p - HDTV - black, silver
- Westinghouse LCD HDTV Color Display
- 32 inch Viewable Screen Size (Diagonal)
- Integrated HDTV Tuner
- 16:9 Aspect Ratio, 8 ms Response Time
- 1000:1 Contrast Ratio, 4 HD Connectors hdmi ?
Product Description
Enjoy this beautiful Westinghouse 32" LCD HDTV all over the house. Now your living room or bedroom can have the latest LCD TV with a fully integrated HDTV tuner built-in, so you can enjoy over-the-air high definition reception with enhanced audio and video reproduction without a set-top box or an associated monthly fee. Connect all your latest gadgets: DVD player, cable, satellite, media PC and game console on to this TV.
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Westinghouse LTV-32w6 HD - 32" LCD TV - widescreen - 720p - HDTV - black, silver
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- Publisher: Westinghouse
- Label: Westinghouse
- Studio: Westinghouse
- Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews
- Sales Rank in Electronics: #44980
Avg. Customer Review:
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Going bad after only 16 months 2008-05-19
Comment: I have had this TV for 16 months. Until now it was great. Great price, great picture, sound, everything. Now we are having problems with the display starting to pixelate and then blink and blank out, then come back on. This has just started happening and seems to be getting worse. Of course, we are 4 months out of warranty. I expected a TV from Westinghouse to last A LOT longer than this. I guess you get what you pay for.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Best Hi-Def TV For Your Money 2008-01-07
Comment: I purchased this HDTV after seeing it on one of those home shopping channels because of all the features it had and of course the low price. I was kind of skeptical at first but they offered it on "flex-pay" so I descided to buy it. Boy, I'm glad I did because this is the best tv ever. It was at my door 4 days later and within 30 minutes after it was brought in the house, it was up and running. I have cable service which isn't Hi-Def but the picture on the tv was very good. I later hooked the tv to an antenna and it picked up about 70 channels half of which were digital and the digital picture floored me at 1080i on CBS. I would recommend this HDTV to anyone who wants Hi-Def without the high price
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: Can't Beat It 2007-03-05
Comment: I am a big Samsung fan and yet when I got to BestBuy I bought the Westinghouse instead. Why? At almost half the cost, I was blown away by how thin the unit was (some of the 32" LCD TVs were clunky and thick)and the picture quality was easily as good as the $1,200 sets. At $699, you cannot beat the price and the quality. This was to be a simple bedroom TV and I wound up with a major setup.
Love the ATI chip, the easy setup, and having easy access to the inputs located on the sides. Very sleek.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: High Quality and Attractive Price 2007-02-01
Comment: This television is an outstanding value! The picture quality is outstanding in high-def broadcast as well as with an upconverter DVD player. Its simplicity and ease of set-up and use make it a joy to own and operate. The sound quality is very good, with great stereo separation and an almost surround-sound quality. BestBuy had it on sale for $699 and there is no comparison with anything else in the price range. This is definitely a "best-bang-for-the-buck" masterpiece!
22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Top notch performance and quality 2007-01-25
Comment: Pros:
Excellent image quality, attractive design, good menus, numerous control settings
Cons:
None significant.
Comments:
I did a lot of research looking for the best 32" LCD HDTV. Our primary use is to watch DirecTV and DVD movies and so excellent image quality (including low black levels), various video inputs, and plenty of display settings (for image calibration) are important. We also wanted a TV that has an attractive exterior design and that included a built-in HDTV tuner. Our target price was $1000.
After reading dozens of reviews, I was leaning towards Panasonic or Sharp. Samsung and Sony also have several good models, if a bit pricey. I decided to check them all at our local retailer (BB).
The store had all of their LCD TVs lined up together allowing for a good comparison. I compared 32" models from Panasonic, Samsung, Toshiba, Sharp, Westinghouse, and a few others. The Sharp had a good image (after some tweaking) but it was bulky and its "piano black" finish reflected everything in sight. The Sharp's menu system looked like something from a cheap PC monitor and did not speak of quality. The Panasonic and Toshiba were decent but their silver plastic housings were unattractive. The Samsung and Sony have excellent image quality but with side-by-side comparisons, I could see no standout performance that justified their higher price tags.
And here was the unexpected surprise: the Westinghouse 32w6. Of all the TVs on the shelf, this one had the cleanest design and excellent, natural looking image quality. In fact, after tweaking several of the other TVs, the Westinghouse was as good as the Sony or Samsung. Its images are crisp with very low black levels thanks to an obviously high-quality LCD panel, ATI Xilleon 240H video processor, and adjustable backlight. It's also a very slim design with a thin perimeter frame (solidly constructed) colored a matte-finish dark gray/black with a dark silver trim along the sides and bottom. It looks and feels like a quality product. The menu system looks like graphic arts professionals designed it -simple, elegant, clean, with just the right cascading menu effect. The remote control is very effective and includes individual buttons for selecting each video input as well as backlight adjustment.
Besides having all the normal image controls, the Westinghouse has a 50-step adjustable backlight and a user-defined color temperature setting. The "Warm" color setting is equivalent to D6500 color temperature (optimum for home theater). You can set up custom labels for all your video inputs (it has at least one of each type) and you can even turn off the blue LED power light on the front panel if you find it distracting. This was the best set on the shelf, in my opinion, so I bought one on the spot.
Setting up the 32w6 was a breeze since the pedestal base is already installed when you pull it out of the box (the unit is well packaged, by the way). It was plugged in and running in five minutes. After a few set-up screens, I was watching brilliant images that made me quickly forget my 10-year old Samsung 27" tube TV (which had an excellent image quality for its day). I ran the 32w6 through the paces of my calibration DVD (Digital Video Essentials) and was amazed at how few adjustments I had to make out-of-the-box. In fact, I have to believe that the 32w6 is carefully calibrated at the factory because the default image settings required very few changes after switching to Warm color temperature. As for video performance, the black level is excellent for an LCD and I can't detect any ghosting on fast images. The 32w6 (like Sony, Samsung, and others) uses ATI's Xilleon 240H video processor chip for state-of-the-art performance from multiple video inputs. ATI's website reveals that almost every major manufacturer (including JVC, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, and Toshiba) uses ATI video chips in their LCD HDTVs. The images from an HD or DVD source are simply amazing. But remember, as with all LCD TVs, the standard definition (SD) image quality is not going to blow you away. This is why the stores have all their flat panel TVs running high definition (HD) video on the display shelves...this is the high-quality source video that makes you drool over the capabilities of the TV. If they only showed you SD video in the store, sales would plummet. But for most people, the SD images on LCD are on par with the same images on any decent tube TV. Widescreen LCDs can also "stretch" the normal SD image to fill the screen, if you so desire, to get more viewable area.
Since it's nearly impossible to evaluate the quality of the TV's speakers in the store, I was pleasantly surprised at the good sound quality and separation at moderate volumes and it's about as good as it gets for a 10W+10W setup. When the volume is turned up, there is a slight "surround sound" effect that is very effective. And while it's always possible that any LCD-based device will have (or develop) one or more stuck/dead pixels (no matter the manufacturer) I'm happy to report that my 32w6 has a flawless display with no pixel problems anywhere.
Bottom line: The Westinghouse 32w6 is a sleeper. In my comparison, its performance and quality is as good as brands costing several hundred dollars more. I have not found any other TVs in this price range that do everything (image quality, menus, exterior design) as well as this one. Other Westinghouse LCD TV reviews I read indicate very high satisfaction with their products and various technology review websites are continually impressed with the quality of Westinghouse Digital TVs. In every case, the Westinghouse TVs are highly rated by their owners for excellent image quality.
It's funny. Ten years ago I went shopping for a new 27" tube TV. I went to the store expecting to buy a Sony, Panasonic, or JVC but wound up purchasing a Samsung that was simply a better performer in every category. Samsung was relatively new on the large TV consumer scene back then but now they are mainstream like Sony. Fast forward to 2007: I now go shopping for a 32" LCD HDTV and go in expecting to buy a Samsung, Sharp, or Panasonic and wind up purchasing a Westinghouse that simply performs as well as, or better than, the mainstream TVs. It's nice to be pleasantly surprised. Go check one out for yourself and you'll see.
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Westinghouse LTV-32w6 HD - 32" LCD TV - widescreen - 720p - HDTV - black, silver
