Price, picture and overall appearance.

The curve of the screen.

I found myself in much the same position as Rob. I wanted a new TV and shopped around for awhile and because of a strange coincidence I read the last review and recieved a free trial membership to BJ''s within the same week, so I thought it was fate that I buy this TV. I am currrently using the s-video jack and the composite video and they work fine. I have my Pioneer DVD player running through the s-video and digital cable using the composite video. I had no problem with this, so you may want to check it out or give RCA a call. I have to admit that I promised myself and to the not so friendly RCA representative that I would never buy a RCA product again, but I did. Many of you are aware of the problems they have with thier DVD players--basically they do not want to correct the problem with pixilization (sp?) and want to charge everyone $90.00 to buy a refurb that will do the same thing after about 90 days of use. Well, I thought that TV technology has been around for a long time and RCA has been doing it for years, so the TV should be all right, and after 6 months of use it has been great. The sound is good on most channels, but on some such as ESPN networks it makes a hissing sound. This may be something with my cable connection--beats me.

Similar Products Used:

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Very good picture quality.

None I could find.

I wanted a big screen TV and would have preferred and HDTV, but with the uncertainty surrounding that format and lack of sources of programming i chose to get a "cheap" TV to hold me over a few more years.


The picture on this TV is second only to the Sony Vega series. I was very impressed by the picture for the price of the TV. In my opinion for the money there isn't a better 36" out there.

Of note i can't comment much on the sound quality of this tv. I use a theater surround set up and just have the TV speakers switched off.

One quirky thing is if you try to hook up composite video and svideo at the same time it doesen't work. Its either or. Not a big deal for me cause all my inputs go to the reciever with just and s-video going to the tv. It could be a problem if you don't have a theater set up.

Bob

RCA 36"
JVC rx8000
Polk rm6600
Toshiba 2109
Tivo