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Anyone reading this then please ignore most of the other feedbacks, bought this for my daughters room and from reading what other people have put, they have not given the machine a chance, in fact I think most have read the reviews and have decided its rubbish before it comes out of the box....... Lets, see, LOOKS - 5 out of 5, the nice piano black finnish works well...... SOUND - 3 out of 5, good enough for the price, not tinny like some cheap models around...... PICTURE - 4 out of 5, I have played dvds and watched the TV and both have come up with a good quality picture, after you have adjusted the colours and contrast etc....... DVD PLAYER - Yes it is noisy, but only whilst putting in a dvd and whilst it starts to read the disc, once playing it is pretty quiet...... Overall 4 out of 5 and for £200 a lot better value than other models at £300+ just living on their name........ I have a LG42" Plasma, now its not as good as that but for £200 you really cant go wrong... Hope this helps.... NOTE - I bet if this said SONY on the front then most of the reviews would have been 4+... make your own opinion. ;-)

Panic, thats what I did when I read the reviews for this tv, I ordered it at the begining of November and it arrived mid month. I checked to make sure it was in one piece but did not think to check it actualy worked propely. After reading the reviews I nearly had a sleepless night and so I dragged it out of the hiding place before my first Nescaf the next morning(thats how much panic had set in). Anyway to cut a short story shorter I can only come to the asumption folk who slate this unit cannot operate a TV remote with the instructions written word perfect with pictures and then the pictures coloured in for them. It took 15 minutes tops, excellent Freeview picture, YES noisey DVD for 20 seconds whilst it loads, loads of input ports, good looks, wall mountable etc etc. My only critism being the sound is a little naf.
No I am not an IT,TV audio or such person just a bottom rung steelworker.

I love my new Easy Touch 19" TV DVD Player. I called the customer service helpline and they helped me set up the TV. 0844 477 2978. I am getting an excellent Freeview signal. I must admit that it is not easy switching from analog to digital, but the customer service helped me with that. It should be more clear in the manual and I was assure that Easy Touch listened to the complaints and are now updating the manual. My DVD Player works fine, very convenient not to have a bunch of wires hanging around the room. PS I never did see a TV that works Digital and analogue at the same time. I will buy another one as soon as they are back in stock for my son's room.

We use this as our main TV as don't have space for anything much larger.
That means it has been used quite a bit over Christmas, having been delivered late November.

Firstly I have to agree with earlier complaints - the instruction booklet was very feeble and downright wrong in some respects (like which way round the DVD disc should be inserted).
Also, not being particularly up to speed on modern terminology, it took me quite a while to find the Freeview / digital mode as didn't realise that this was what DTV stood for. It doesn't actually say that anywhere on the box or within the instruction manual. You need to be in this mode to scan and select the freeview channels.

Once that is done then it's a pretty good picture - but there are still some annoying aspects:

1. As mentioned elsewhere, in digital mode sometimes the sound gets slightly out of synch with the picture. Briefly turning the set off and back on sorts that.

2. The remote isn't the best piece of kit - slightly illogical buttons and again, as mentioned before, you have to be pointing directly at the set's IR receiver to get it to work. You also seem to have to press hard on the buttons to get a response.

3. Once you have got your aim right, it is slow to change channels - and that is frustrating when you are channel-hopping to find something (anything!) else whenever the wretched adverts come on.
Don't have this problem with a cheap 15" LCD TV in the bedroom.

We also have a dead pixel but fortunately this is high up on the left and not a problem.

We like the colour, design and the integrated functions of the DVD (works fine and silent when playing) & Freeview.

In summary, I get on with it quite well but the Missus struggles with the remote and I just know that one day I'll come home to find it halfway through the screen...

Worth £200? I suppose so. Would an extra £50 spent on a different make get you the same spec but with greater efficiency? Don't know.

Update as at March 2008.
Now getting very fed up with this. In addition to the poor sound / image synch and other niggles detailed above, we have now started to have a problem with it starting up from standby. Sometimes you'll get sound but no image, sometimes nothing at all. Have to turn it off and on 3 or 4 times to get the proper picture.
Will be contacting Amazon to see what the score is about getting it replaced / repaired under normal 12 month warranty as it really isn't fit for purpose.

What a waste of money. I thought I was getting a good deal as I hadn't found a tv with a built in multi region dvd player, but the player makes such a racket when playing that it's distracting from what you're watching. Also, as the other reviewer mentioned, when the analogue channels are tuned the freeview channels don't. Steer well clear from this one!