Buy Extended Warranty! We had good luck for a bit with a Westinghouse 32 so we also got a 42 Westinghouse. Our 32 was only 1 1/2 yrs old but it was too small for our room so we got a bigger one and used our 32 as a computer monitor. About a month after we bought our 42 tv the 32 quit working a blue rotating screen which was not really fixable. Then when our 42 was 1 1/2 yrs old the digital audio started to go out the digital audio converter that was within the tv made voices sound like monsters funny sounding for a while. We will try to resolve this if it persists by getting a cable box and running the audio thru it. Other issues have come up with our Westinghouse mostly compatibility with DVD players or cables not working in the ports. At some point we decided to buy a Sony Playstation. It did not work on our 42 Westinghouse. We have learned the hard way NEVER buy a Westinghouse and if you do because the price is so darn good be sure to get the extended warranty as you will most likely use it.We bought a Sony 30 to replace the Westinghouse 32and we LOVE our Sony. It's less than 2 years old and has worked flawless. The color & picture is better than our Westinghouse but I don't really have issues with the Westinghouse picture it's ok. It's the fact that other things tend to go wrong to make it a poor choice.The good thing we had the 32 installed on our wall and the 42 can go on the same bracket. That was nice so we didn't have to drill any more holes.I'm hoping we can get by on this pos Westinghouse for a while longer until 42 Sony's are cheap.
Horrible Build Quality Bought the TV because it was one of the cheapest 1080p units around at the time. But I've realized you get what you paid for. First the HDMI is horrible it makes my PS3 signal flash uncontrollably. There's also no dedicated HDMI button on the controller it cycles between 3 DVI/HDMI modes. That means it won't work properly with my Logitech 880 remote. Then my first unit failed on me with a screen problem.
Super buy I bought this TV at target on black Friday 2010 for $300. The only problem is that you can see the back lights around the edge when the screen is all black. Except for that small problem which is completely livable the TV is great. I play first person shooters on it with no ghosting and after many hours of watching the screen is still crisp with no fading our dead pixels. There are certainly better TVs on the market but don't be afraid to pick this set up.
Dont Do It!!!! Oi! This TV sucks. When mine went out on me after only 1 1/2 years I contacted westinghouse in an effort to resolve the issue and sent in my TV. it took over six weeks for them to tell me that the part that went out wasn't being made any more!!! Jerks couldn't have said something sooner?!? Also I didn't recive a refund on the busted modelBOO Westinghouseboo.
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 SP850S. 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 230250 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 34 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 1920x1080 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.
Not worth the Customer Service you are bound to have to deal with I bought this TV because it was 1080p at a good price. I received the TV quickly and for about 6 months my TV experience was positive. Then the TV started powering down on its own. I quickly jumped on the web to check and indeed the Westinghouse TV has had power issues in the past albeit different than what I was seeing. I should have actually checked for bad press before buying but hindsight being 20/20 I didn't. So I contacted Westinghouse the first time.The gentleman that answered was very helpful. I was dreading having to come up with a box to ship it back for repair but he found a local repair facility. So I dropped it with them on August 23rd. They swapped out the power supply a week later the TV still had the issue. They then had to order a logic board which was going to take a month. A MONTH? I called Westinghouse the second time. Told them what was going on they told me that they couldn't do anything for me unless I went to pick the TV up from their recommended local repair shop ship it to them they would repair and send it back but according to the customer service spokesman it may take longer than a month.Flash forward to the month later. I called the repair center. Again they were super nice but informed me that it would be another month. ????What???? I called Westinghouse back. I was livid. I explained that it had been a more than a month. I got a supervisor that basically told me that Westinghouse had no other way of helping me. I had brought up Apple computer as an example of a customer service story that went the right way them shipping a replacement before receiving the original. He said well that's why they cost so much and I can't afford them. We don't do that here and can't. Okay so what can you do I asked. Well you can call the repair facility and tell them about this other part distributor that we deal with that may make it go faster.They wanted me to do it. Okay. I called the repair center again. They had received the part over a couple of days here. The swapped it in immediately and the problem still persisted. Takes a day to see the issue. So they now say its the panel and it has to be shipped back to Westinghouse.I called Westinghouse for the 4th time. The said ok we will take it from here. We will contact the rental center get the TV and ship a replacement to you.I went on a business trip for about a week called Westinghouse 10 days later. I asked what was going on they didn't know.
Average for the money spent I bought this unit in June 2006 for the world cup and was pleasantly surprised by its picture quality. Even so the contrast ratio is 10001 it produced nice contrast.The product now sells for about a thousand dollars less than I paid for it then. Looking back it was worth paying $2200 for it but now that other products have come on the market I would not recommend this unit any more.WEAK POINTS The unit has CONSISTENT problems with locking up. You will have to remove the power cord wait a few seconds and try it again. You will get a green screen no video if you swap inputs. This will be corrected by changing inputs but it's quite annoying. The remote sometimes does not work. You have to keep aiming and pressing . It has limited features for example if you want to switch to the HDMI input you will have to scroll up and down to get to it. There's no oneclick button to get there. It only has one HDMI input. Sure you can use the component connection but the HDMI is much more convenient. If you have a DVD player and want the HD signal both hooked up at the same time. you're out of luck. It's a monitor so it does NOT have a tuner. This means that you have to have a satellite or cable box to hook up to it. This probably is OK as for now we all have to do this anyway but starting in a couple of years when all signals have to be HD this will be an issue.Overall at this point Fall 2007 I do not recommend this product as there out better choices and value for your $$.
DO NOT BUY Westinghouse LCD tv's! I bought a 37 inch Westinghouse LCD TV from Walmart only a year and a half ago and already the screen went out! Obviously the manufacturers warranty is already up after 1 year and although I called them to ask about what it could be that's wrong they offered me no remorse for the lack of quality and no solution. I then called a tv repair shop and was informed that flat panel TV's have only about an 18 month life expectancy before they go out! Well if I would of know that I wouldn't have spent $600 on one I would have stuck with the TV I had that lasted for 20 years. So my recommendation is not to buy TV's from Westinghouse I am shocked broke and severely disappointed..
I still love it after 15 months I read the poor reviews and took the legitimate ones seriously so when I purchased this bad boy I crossed my fingers hoping there would be no problems all the complaints that seemed legit to me were based on poor service. Much to my relief I've been using my Westinghouse LVM42w2 for well over a year and I still love it every day.My opinionated PROs aesthetically pleasing other budget TVs are UGLY TO THE EXTREME great functional Spine Design for inputs picture looks GREAT to me see below for details on content I view I can turn off the lighted W logo but I choose not to! the onscreen menu though I rarely use it is attractive and FAR LESS gaudy than most other OSDs I've seen on HDTVsMy opinionated CONs yes the remote is utterly sucktastic and I would like to never use the remote but HAVE TO for input switching because input switching is painfully long so I'd rather hit DVI twice on the Westy remote than input 6 times on my Comcast universal remote there is no stretch zoom option which allows widescreen letterboxed SD content to be stretched to fill the screen of course I rarely watch SD content anymore. I experience light bleeding in the corners but I've seen this on manyanLCD monitor including my two computer monitors both of which are Samsung and it seems to dissipate with time as the Westy warms upSo yeah there are qualifiers to just about all of my cons. Other people might point out that this doesn't have a builtin tuner or more HDMI inputs etc but I wasn't looking for features other than what this offers so I'm happy as can be with it.What I watchComcast HD cable runs into the HDMI port.
Progressive Scan, Aspect Ratio Conversion, 3D Noise Reduction, PIP.176o Viewing Angle (Vertical/Horizontal).Built-in Speakers and Sub-woofer.1920 X 1080 Optimum Resolution (1080p).One HDMI, Two HD Component, Two DVI HDCP, and One S-Video Inputs. At 42 inches, it's a whole living room of pure HD entertainment. The Westinghouse 42" 1080p monitor is a true 1080p monitor, combining leading-edge technology with stylish design, to deliver the ultimate in entertainment enjoyment. The LVM-42w2 is ideal for all viewing environments, with greater versatility than plasma, especially for daytime viewing. Designed to be future-proof, this big 1080p monitor is equipped with 6 HD connections. If you're into maximum entertainment, it's the only display that should be connected to your HD cable box, satellite or multimedia PC.
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