good features & price if only if worked After doing a local market survey of HDTV's that would fit my entertainment cabinet from the old days TV I gave to the Salvation Army I liked the set of features and inputs best for the Westinghouse 26 HDTV. I acommodated all of my inputs from DVD VCR & ATSC. I was particularly impressed by the tuner sensitivity as it pulled in 28 analog channels and 24 digital channels off my attic antenna I am about 30 miles out of NY City and also get Philly stations.Now for the bad news. Like other reviewers wish I had read these earlier I also had a persistent problem with total lockup from onair signals. None of the buttons on the remote or TV worked except that I discovered the old PC trick of holding down the power button for more than 5 seconds after which the TV would reboot just like an old PC.I called the Westinghouse customer service and they walked me through the factory reset process which forced me to reprogram all of my stored channels and configuration again.
Tried 2 but its a NO! Both TVs had stick pixels you could clearly see during dark passages small green pixel lights. Returned both to Target and ordered a Toshiba.
WOW YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WITH THIS TV/DVD COMBO AT THIS PRICE. HDMI PC COMPONENT CABLE INPUTS EVERYTHING NEEDED TO GET STARTED FOR YOUR BEDROOM. PURCHASED AND SATISFIED.
Horrible DVD player and Horrible Customer Service I bought this TV at Target several months ago specifically for its size and the fact that it had a builtin DVD player. Very soon after the DVD player started having problems. It would skip despite cleaning the DVDs and the laser lens of the DVD player. The same DVDs would play just fine on my stand alone Panasonic DVD player. After several months of problems I called Westinghouse and was told that I should send the TV back and they would send me out a new TV within 5 business days. I was also told that I had to pay for the shipping which ended up being over $60. It has been over a month since they received the TV and I'm still waiting for a new TV. Multiple phone calls to their customer support have been useless. They take your number and say that a supervisor will call you back. The supervisor never calls back requiring you to call again and wait on hold forever for a supervisor to come on the line. The supervisor then states that the problem is being resolved but gives no indication of when I will get back my TV. I am writing a letter to president of the Westinghouse requesting a full refund.
Great HDTV This is overall a very nice TV. The display is very good with immaculate images from HD sources. Standard def TV looks good as well. Widescreen looks fantastic. Overscan mode allows you to zoom a 43 image and maintain aspect ratio which is a nice way to avoid pillarbox or letterbox black bars . The speakers are adequate but any serious HD setup would have dedicated speakers. The builtin DVD player is a nice touch as it's very convenient. I've never seen nor own any HD DVDs or HD players so I can't compare in that domain but the DVD player seems to hold its own. Another great feature is the spine in the back of the TV that contains all the input ports aligned vertically for easy access. The only downsides are occasional lockups or crashes of the TV where I need to reboot. This could be endemic or just apply to my unit. YMMV. Also the menus and channel tuning support are a little on the slow side where you need to be deliberate with the remote. Overall a great TV for a great price.
builtin DVD player is useless! I guess I'm just adding my voice to the choir here but the builtin DVD player on this thing is the most useless piece of crap I've ever dealt with. It struggles with the most basic tasks and as of today seems to have crapped out completely.
Not a great TV just okay CONS I have had this Westinghouse model for over a year now and use it with an HD antenna. The picture freezes a lot. The only way to unfreeze it is to either unplug the TV and plug it back in or hold down the power button on the TV for about 10 seconds to reboot the remote control loses all functionality when the picture freezes. Occasionally when I've unplugged it I've had to reprogram the clock and TV channels after I plug it back in. As for the builtin DVD player sometimes a DVD will play sometimes not. The DVDs that won't play I try on my other DVD player and they work fine so it is not a problem with the discs. My remote seems to have a very limited distance only about 10 feet.PROS It has a good picture and decent sound. It's fairly easy to set up initially program the clock and channels etc.. I like the programmable timer functions where I can set the TV to come on every morning at a certain time like an alarm clock then turn off when I leave for work. There is also a sleep timer. Another nice feature is that you can program your favorite TV channels into the favorites buttons on the remote so you don't have to flip through dozens of channels to find the stations you watch the most.
Burning time while deployed Ordered this tv while deployed overseas tv got to me in great shape and only took about 4 days from the time it was shipped. Good price for a good tv.
DVD player broke after 9 months Bought the TV in July 2007 and has been working pretty good until this week and the DVD player is dead. Not even 9 months. And it's not like I used it a lot and abused the TV. Very disappointed it's not like it's an easy item to carry off to the repair shop or return and I have to look for the warranty/manufacturer/user guide anyone like to find that stuff after nine months of placing it in a drawer somewhere at home?The TV itself works fine although a colleauge at work pointed out that the TV/VCR combos of yesteryear usually worked like this the VCR gives out with TV inevitably not too far behind. So I'm worried that TV will die out now. Will never buy a combo function TV again.Also the metal frame around the screen is not well made you can see the slight bumps in the frame.
If I could give this 0 stars I would Do not buy this TV. Simple as that.Had the same picture freezing problem as a previous reviewer however it is not due to the DVD player mine freezes when using an over the air digital antenna. Has frozen 4 times now twice just this morning and as soon as I can find the receipt and put this bad boy into the box it is going back to Best Buy and I'm buying Sony. And by frozen I mean you can't change the channel with the remote or with the buttons on the side of the TV you end up having to hold down the power button on the tv and powering it down much like a frozen PC computer. I know that it is not the antenna as I use the exact same antenna on a Panasonic LCD TV and have never had a problem. Also it is not a power surge as both the TV and antenna are plugged into a brand new surge protector.On the plus side this TV has a zillion inputs for a tv of its sizebut some things are just too good to be true.
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