Picture, Features, Component In, AV inputs, picture options

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Although not as sharp as the sony, i must admit that jvc did an excellent job with this particular television set. After having to return my sony because of a horizontal line distortion, i decided to pick one of these up, considering the price. I didn't think it would be necessary to have the PIP that the 32D500 has, thus saving me a hundred or so dollars. After a short chat with a sales adviser at Circuit City, i took advantage of the "no risk" service and took it home. That night, I rented "Saving Private Ryan" and was throughly pleased with the sheer clarity of the picture. I have not seen any single set in the $600 price range that even compares with the 32D200's picture quality. I was simply astounded. Also, the hypersurround, and various other onscreen menues were critical in my home theater system. This television's definitely a keeper.

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Sony XBR Vega

Above all else, price!!!
Sound is extremely good.

User interface could use a bit tweaking (explain this below)

JVC 32D201
My family's Sony XBR went dead a couple months ago, and it was having color problems long before that. I really liked the Sony but it seemed that it didn't have much lasting power, oh well. After considering many brands I narrowed it down to two: the Panasonic 32" Superflat and the JVC 32" D-Series. Chose the D-Series for two reasons. 1) The 32" Superflat w/ components doesn't come out for another couple of months and 2) The JVC was a whole mess cheaper. The sound on this unit is EXCELLENT. I haven't heard better sound on ANY TV I've seen (including the Sony XBR's). I guess if you have a Home Theater it doesn't matter, but we don't so it does matter. The picture quality watching DVD's is nice and my videogames never looked better. However when watching regular cable the quality doesn't seem too hot. IMHO I think that the Pana has a way better picture, better than Sony even. But the price is too much and this year's model lacks component inputs. I picked this up at Video Only for $600. Hope this helped someone!

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Sony 32" XBR (6 years old)
Magnavox 27" (10 yrs. old)

Good price compared to similar high quality products

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I've shoped around a great deal, comparing the equivalent in Sony and all other good quality sets, and for the price the D series from JVC is out standing, excellent picture, easy to use remote, nice sound, even if i usually use my home theater system! I recomend it to all!!!

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don't know the specific model, but digital class sets

A high quality off-air tuner, very good picture quality, component video input, reasonably good sounding speakers, decent remote, very good value.

No rabbit ears. Really, just joking...kind of. Lack of PAL display capability (an almost universal weakness of TVs designed for the U.S. market. Can't compensate for bad television writing.

To clarify. I actually bought a JVC AV-32d201, which is the successor to the av-32d200.

I plan to get some sort of HDTV display when the price comes down and the technical issues get more completely sorted out. This set seemed to offer reasonable quality today without costing too much. Also, I'll probably buy some sort of DTV set top box in the next year or so when decent quality tuners become available for 200 bucks or so. I am guessing that at least some of the boxes will have NTSC component output, so my soon-to-be-a-doorstop AV-32d201 will be able to show me the last bit of resolution that can be squeezed out of the 50 year old NTSC standard before I chuck it out of the window to make room for a DTV-dedicated set.

If you buy this TV, I think it will make you as happy as a TV can make anyone. I still like mine, even after looking at a lot of other sets since buying it. If only I could be so lucky in choosing a mate. But that's another story.

I am giving it five stars for value because I think that it delivers 95% of the impact of some top-of-the-line TV sets at less than 50% of the cost. In terms of overall rating, I give it four out of five stars because in picture quality it ranks in at least the top third of all the 32" TV's I've seen.

If you're thinking about choosing this TV, feel free to email me. I'll let you know whether I still like it or if turns out to be turkey. BTW, Douglas TV in Chicago sold it to me for $596, including delivery.

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20" RCA TV.

Picture, Componet video input, 800 lines, Flat screen and User picture preset.

Could use one more video input.

I looked at a lot of TVs and settled on the JVC becouse of two things componet video input and 800 lines of resolution. DVD is picture perfect after some calibrations with a set up DVD like Avia. With 800 lines of resolution this TV is a great computer monitor for playing games. I recomend this TV to anyone who wants to get the most out of there DVD player and to anyone who has a Voodoo 3 video card and plays computer games.

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RCA 27" (don't by an RCA)