ferguson w7023u review

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Average Ratings

Value for Money	5.3/10
Overall rating	4.3/10

33% Recommended1 out of 3 Reviews

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By Nathan. on 24th Jan 2002

Nathan.'s Ratings

Value for money	10/10
Overall value	8/10
Nathan.'s recommendation

Good Points

Good picture.
Excellent value.
Remote can be programmed to control other brand VCR's.
Comes in black casing (hard to find in this day of silver casing)

Bad Points

Inadequate instruction manual.
Average sound.
Remote slightly to small and fiddly.
Hard to find retail suppliers (Only supplied by independent retailers and/or Euronics centres).

General Comments

The Ferguson W7023U is a 28" widescreen TV with Nicam audio which represents excellent value for money. Coming in at between £300 - £350 you'd usually expect inferior picture quality, not so with this TV. The picture is crisp and the colour hues natural. The TV automatically switches to the pictures aspect ratio and if the picture is traditional 4:3 offers the user four different viewing ratio options.
The sound may not compete with a more expensive models, but is perfectly adequate (although I have been informed it does beat some more expensive TV's). If like me you use your stereo amp for the audio then the sound issue not a problem.
The TV features 2 x SCART inputs (SCART 1 is wired for RGB), an S-Video input and composite video inputs. It will also happily take an NTSC signal through the RGB SCART.
The instruction manual is fairly general (designed for several different models) but as the TV features auto-setup anyone with an ounce of intelligence can easily make sense of it.
All in all this TV represents excellent value for money without compromising picture quality. It might not be an all singing, all dancing Sony Wega, but then it is about half the price. At this price if you decided to up-grade in the future (a big possibility no matter what TV you buy considering the rate of development with TV technology) it won't be such a bitter pill to swallow.

Total Respect: +6