JVC AV28WTS Review

Overall Rating

Something to watch stuff on.

No Dolby Pro Logic even though when sold to us we were told it did have this feature.
Pictures a little soft.
AV input on side looks like it's just a hole on the side of the tv where they've rammed them in.
No S-Video input on the side.
Side components look really cheap and tacky.
Headphone socket is plastic, not metal.
Buttons on TV are on the side with the AV input and they are little rubber buttons which look like the ones you find on the small kids "pianos" you get from funfairs.
Menu really annoying. When setting up the TV, exits the menu every time so you have to go back into the menu each time to change each item. Then when the TV is turned off at night it forgets all the changes and reverts back to showing stuff the way it wants to.
Doesn't Auto-detect Widescreen broadcasts properly, so either have to watch everything in 4:3 mode with letterbox for widescreen or watch everyone in 4:3 mode look a lot fatter than normal.

We had a Dolby Pro Logic Philips 28" Widescreen TV until my mum tripped over the dog and knocked it off the stand. When putting in a claim with our insurance they couldn't find a Philips 28" Widescreen TV with Dolby Pro Logic any more so they replaced it with this thing, saying it was the same quality.

This JVC TV is nowhere near the quality we got from the Philips, for a start the Philips had Dolby Pro Logic on it, this has only got stereo sound, and not very good speakers on the front either. Luckily we have an AV receiver to take care of that.

The side inputs are seriously lacking with no S-Video input on the side and the Philips TV used to have a clicky thing where the inputs would come out of the side (to hide and protect them when they are not in use), these inputs look just like a hole has been cut in the TV chassis and pushed in, the inputs don't even curve with the side of the TV there is just a big square hole with the inputs hiding inside. Also where the inputs are there is also the buttons to change channels, these buttons are really small circular rubber buttons and are something I wouldn't expect to see on a TV (or at least if they were put on a TV really should be covered up with some plastic to make it look nicer to the end user.

Then we move on to the picture, the picture looks really bad, we've only had the TV for a day and there is blue colouring bleeding everywhere into the other colours, tried changing the colour settings from Warm to Normal to Cool and it didn't make any difference. The old TV was nearly 10 years old and the picture was still fine on it, this things only 1 day old and the picture quality is seriously problematic.

One other thing that I'm a bit wary about with the TV is the lack of vents on the back of it. I'm quite sure a TV is meant to have vents somewhere on it to keep it cool (the Philips had loads of vents on the back and side), this one has only got two small vents at the top, hopefully that will keep it cool enough? Maybe?

We're only going to put up with it for about 6 months until we save for a new one, and then also change our household insurance as we think our insurer has ripped us off well and truly with this piece of garbage.