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This LCD TV looks like a good deal price wise, but the model I bought (not from Amazon, but the same model) had a lot of defects, and after ~100 days, past the brief 90-day warranty it had broke. TV started to turn on and off randomly for no apparent reason while getting interrupted by the (basic) built-in DVD player. It could not hold a signal to the TV. It may cut off TV signal to black or the audio would mute, pop, or it could also reset randomly. And it blasted a high-frequency tone each time at maximum when it cut off the picture, and then continues the loop over and over (the volume blasting will make you jump in your seat). The TV's ATSC/Qam tuner must of broke, and after a week of tolerating its problems, of turning on and off and blasting, it was thrown out.

I too had problems with this TV. It would never play any of my DVD's even new ones. After about 3 months, the picture just suddenly died. I can still get sound but no picture. I would never buy another Magnavox.

I purchased this Magnavox TV/DVD 6 months ago and am pleased with the picture and sound quality. I'm using a roof top antenna and pickup several HD channels and many more digital channels. It's great...except the screen size. It's not 16:9 as HD TV is broadcast, but 16:10. The picture is stretched to 10" high instead of the 9" it should be, so everyone is tall and thin. Magnavox should offer a software upgrade to correct this problem or offer replacement TVs. I would not have bought this TV if I was aware of this design problem.

Similar to other reviews by users, the DVD will work only intermittently, the TV will randomly turn on and off and the sound has a high pitch fuzz for 10-15 minutes after we turn it on. Really a piece of junk, I bought another LCD at the Black Friday sale this morning. Will not buy another Magnavox product.

This TV worked great until about 2-3 months ago. Then it started just randomly turning off after a few seconds of being on. Then it started emitting a high-pitched shriek after a few seconds of being on. This would alternate between the sound just cutting off. I'd had this tv for about 1.5 years when it started acting up. It was a nice tv when it worked, which is why I gave it 2 stars instead of 1. But seriously, a tv should last longer than 1.5 years, especially for this price. I'm waiting until the after Thanksgiving sales to buy another one, so until then I have to just deal with turning my tv on and off for about 10 minutes until the sound works, the shrieking noise goes away, and it stays on on its own. I came on here to see if this was just a weird problem of my own, but I've read several reviews of this happening to other people, even sooner than it happened to me. I would definitely not recommend this to anybody.