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This was (I thought) a good value purchase for the kitchen/breakfast room and set up relatively quickly. The picture is good and it looks OK on the wall. The DVD player is fine and I didn't hear any noise that others complain of. That's the good side, now the not so good. The sound is tinny and will need external speakers if you want good sound from the TV - the bass is almost non existent on the little 3W speakers. The thing that I am having problem with is the length of time to start up. When I first got it it seemed to be fairly responsive. Now it takes up to 10minutes before it finally warms up whatever circuitry they have for the digital TV even though signal strength is shown to be 70%. Forget trying to catch the news if you rush in for a quick cup of tea. I only have a standard portable aerial and wonder if a booster will help. Expensive to trial as a booster aerial costs another £20. Has anyone had any experience with this. I suppose if you pay another £100 you may get better but all seem to have one problem or another and have fewer features. You get what you pay for is a true saying but it is frustrating nevertheless especially in this day and age of instant start up circuitry - maybe there are some secret valves inside warming up!!.

The sevice was fantastic from Amazon
BUT
I and my family had 5 of these units each one become faulty after same use in time.
it was found the pawer units were packing in not the tv (but still not happy)
colour settings very poor
sound going out of sink all the time on DTV
DVD payer quite noisey
sorry but i wouldnt recomend the older units to any one
EBAY SELLER Astraprice

1. Yes Digital and analogue tuners need tuning in separately, but its not rocket science, Easy Touch have obviously updated the manual and I printed off the instructions posted on this Amazon page.
2. The DVD player is a little noisy on start-up but thereafter it's fine.
3. Picture quality is good for a piece of kit of this price, Freeview reception is good and DVD output seems ok.
4. Sound quality....Oh dear...its appalling, however I am a sound engineer so I am a little fussy about this. There is treble and bass controls that do nothing and the volume is poor too. Not a great problem for me as I bought this for my campervan and I use the headphone output to feed the AUX in of my van's Blaupunkt system so no problems there.

Summary. Ideal for caravan, campervan or kids bedroom, could be used as second TV in bedroom or kitchen but if you want to listen to it loud it will need to be fed into some external speakers. Value for money, ideal for my intended use if you want something better....spend more money!!!!

I ordered this on Thursday and it arrived on Monday morning, very good service. The box was slightly damaged, but the TV was in perfect order, a good looking product in shiny black! I was a bit worried at first because i couldn't find any connections at the back, then found them under the bar along the rear of the TV.

After switching on I tuned the analogue channels, and then the digital ones using the instructions on here and the not particularly user friendly book provided. This was not the easiest process, certainly compared to a Sony, but then this is a considerably cheaper product! I don't think this was so difficult though that I should not have bought the set. I suppose it took me about half an hour to get all the channels tuned in, and the TV fully up and ready.

The picture is very sharp, great colours, particularly once I had toned down the saturation - the default maked the screen look too red. The built in DVD worked great, and we watched Ratatouille with no glitches. Analogue channels are markedly less good than their digital counterparts, as would be expected, but the teletext worked really well. The sound is a bit disappointing. Whilst it is certainly loud enough, and its not tinny, there is a flatness to it.

Overall I think this is a great value product, and a good digital TV. I would have preferred an easier set up, and better sound, but thats it. Neither complaint is sufficient to annoy me. I have read comments about a noisy DVD player and dead pixels etc but this doesnt appear to be the case with my Easy Touch. Possibly they have improved the model after the complaints. I noticed there are some additions to the booklet pasted in, and it gives the right instructions for inserting a DVD which others have said was wrong in their copies. I have the TV in a bedroom, not as the main TV (that is a Sony circa 1994, which although pretty ancient has better sound than the Easy Touch, though not a better picture).

From box to fully tuned in 10 Mins. This is well worth the money in fact I am just about to order another one!