AOC L24H898 24-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV Review

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(More customer reviews)Pros:
- Price
- Picture quality
- Includes clear QAM tuner
- Can hide unwatched channels
- Gets program guides for the DIGITAL (not analog) channels
- Includes 1 of each key input type including good old composite & PC
- Remote has favorites, digital program info, channel guide, sleep timer,+ - lots of extras for a small tv remote
- Beautiful
Cons:
- Picture gets substantially darker when viewed from even slightly below tv level (see below)
- Stand does not pivot or tilt down, only tilts up
- All screen menus are tiny- illegible text from over ~5' away @ 1080 res.
- Poor remote design for use in dark bedroom (see below)
- QAM tuner a little slow (see below)
- No designated audio out to send tv audio to surround receiver, just a headset out
- Two composite, component and hdmi inputs would've been better- I needed to add a passive switch for two old composite only components, but at least these are easy and cheap to add.
- No hide/show channel shortcut button on remote (minor quip)
Bottom Line Summary:
This tv is the best price and value in the 22-26" size range in 1080p, and its a better size than 22". Highly recommended- you can't go wrong unless you watch tv from the floor (see below). I haven't attached it to a PC. I have a vcr, gamecube and dvd home theatre attached, and it's in my bedroom. I get cable and have NO cable box attached, and it gets all the analog and CLEAR qam HD and unscrambled digital channels flawlessly. I replaced a 20" analog crt tv with this- yipee!
Picture:
Chrystal clear and vibrant but picture does get substantially darker when viewed from even slightly below tv level- not good for bed to wall mount or higher dresser situation or floor watching. I had to set the brightness too light for same-level viewing so it looks good from the bed. (My Samsung is not like this at all). It tilts up but NOT down so can't resolve that way.
The QAM tuner loads the digital channels very slow the first time you tune them in after turning on the tv, then it caches them so they load fast the rest of that watching session. Next time you turn the tv on, it has to re-tune and re-cache so you need a little patience with that.
Tips- watch non-hd channels in 4:3 and then they are pretty crisp too. I wish you could set a default picture size for HD (full) and for non-hd (4:3) so you don't have to keep switching picture size setting on the remote. (Cable boxes have this feature but I believe most tvs unfortunatly don't)
I set the sharpness high, all other picture defaults are pretty good. Amazing picture!
Audio:
Default out of the box is with the surround sound off. I prefer this setting. I just configured the custom audio setting to be very high in bass and I think slightly higher than centre in treble. Some of the pre-defined audio settings are pretty good too, like music and movie.
If you switch to surround sound, be sure to turn the volume down to 1 dot before, because the surrond volume is tons of db higher! The surround adds too much echo (in my opinion) and although it provides a more separated stereo affect, ultimately is way too tinny even with the bass all the way up.
I was shocked to find no designated audio out on this. If you want to send the tv audio to an amp. your stuck using the headset out to do so; wierd. Fortunately that's on the back panel too and not the front. So I got a 3.5mm male to stereo RCA male cable at monoprice for a few bucks and am all set up.
Remote:
Nice extra features for a small tv remote but no illumination, and all the buttons are the same shape and clumped together with the number pad..ugh. I had to memorize the pad and now count and feel the key placements to find a button- ridiculous really, but I've managed to get it, mostly.
Menu Navigation:
They don't teach you how to do this in the manual so here goes- after you click menu button, it goes by default to the picture settings. To change to say, audio settings, use the left and right arrows to select a diffent menu from the turntable. Then use the up and down arrows to select a list item within the menu, then use enter and right/left again on the list items.
To get out of the menu you must back out of the menu levels by repeatedly pushing the menu button.
There is a timout setting for all menus in the options. After I figured out how to close the menu, I set that pretty long so it wouldn't close any menu on me too soon automatically.
Attached VCR:
I found my vcr picture is far better when viewed through ch3 rather than changing the tv's input to aux. It's also easier that way. Just turn on the vcr and change the tv to ch3. Turn the vcr off and the tv channels all just come back.

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AOC 24"w LCD HDTV with Digital ATSC and Clear-QAM Tuners built-in and HDMI & PC Input - The L24H898 is a 24" widescreen Full HD LCDA liquid crystal display (LCD) is an electro-optical amplitude modulator realized as a thin, flat display device made up of any number of color or monochrome pixels arrayed in front of a light source or reflector. TV with Analog NTSC(National Television System Committee) is the analog television system used in the United States, Canada, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, and some other countries., Digital ATSC with Clear-QAM Tuners. The Display is meets the FCC standards for digital signal reception, no extra equipment needed. It also boasts a 1920x1080 resolutionThe display resolution of a digital television or computer display typically refers to the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed., 300 cd/m2 brightness, a 10,000:1 Dynamic Contrast Ratio and a 5ms response time.

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