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Customer Reviews
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what a great hdtv
I love it. I don't have the problem with the remote like other people. I do not use a universal remote. Its great. When I stick in a DVD, it turns off the TV tuner by itself. I can turn off the unit in the middle of a DVD and the next day, I can pick up on the DVD right where I left it just by turning it on. Very simple. Color and picture are great. Price is great. Have had no problems.
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Defective
I ordered this tv but I had to return it the next day because it was defective. It wouldn't give me about a dozen of my channels. Instead it just flashed the picture, then turned all white with an asterisk showing on the side, and kept alternating between those two things. It was unwatchable.
I tried having it redo the channel search again. I noticed that when I clicked the up and down arrows, all those channels were skipped. It still didn't work.
I then plugged the cable wire into my old tv and it worked fine.
Another complaint that I have with this tv is that there were horizontal lines going up the screen. The instruction manual says that may happen if you have a radio in the room, not turned on, just in the room. Who doesn't have a radio in the room? My other tv doesn't have that problem.
Another complaint I have with this tv is that it foreshortened the faces on the screen. I changed a certain setting from "fill the screen" to "normal" and it seemed to fix that problem. It seems that it was stretching the window sideways, making everyone's head look wide and short. Then when I turned on the tv later, all the faces were foreshortened again. Sure enough, the tv had reset itself to "fill the screen". I changed it back and it seemed fine.
When I gave up on the tv, because of its inability to receive a lot of channels, I turned on my old tv and I appreciated the picture quality of the Mintek more. My old tv's picture really didn't look as good as the Mintek did. It makes me realize how artificial all these images are. We tend to think of them as being accurate but they are not.
I don't have high definition cable. I just have regular cable. That may have something to do with it. Maybe HDTV would at least get rid of the horizontal lines going up the screen.
I give Amazon 5 stars. I packed up the box, taped it up, brought it to a UPS store, and Amazon paid the postage and all. Amazon is giving me a full refund. I highly recommend shopping with Amazon. I have bought dozens of books and records, and various other things, through Amazon, and I have always been so pleased with the service that my first reaction is to buy everything on Amazon.
Later ...
Revisiting this review, I see that someone gave my review a Thumbs Down. What idiot would do that? My tv was defective. It didn't pull in all the channels. Isn't this supposed to be a place where we share our experiences with the products we buy on Amazon? What kind of moron would give this report a Thumbs Down? My tv was defective, I'm telling you so, and I get booed for letting you know? Maybe the negative reviewer is a Mintek employee hired to occasionally scan the Amazon reviews. Something similar happened to me on Epinions when Delta Airlines let me down, and a Delta employee actually was hired to scan the Epinions reviews and defend his company.
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Mintek DTV review
After alot of research on Mintek we decided to give it a try. The tv is great, DVD player works well. Cutomer service STINKS, I called numerous times and no one ever returned my calls. My main question was about codes for a universal remote. Finally found out there are none, but did purchase a remote ($28-Best Buy) that "learns codes" and am now able to use 1 remote for TV and DirectTV reciever.
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Impressive, I like it
Great HD picture and sound. The DVD player is excellent! The size is perfect for a bedroom. I've used it as a monitor, it took me a while to figure out how to set up my laptop with it but once I got it working it looked pretty good. The only minuses is the sound, there is a noise, like the hum of a computer monitor, when the sound is turned down. Minor issue for me. Also regular TV channel picture quality is not that great, I am hopeful that a lot more stations will start broadcasting in HDTV in the near future. The remote can be an annoyance at times given it's not universal.
I also like the feature of viewing pictures from my digital camera's memory stick, that feature is fun to play with. Overall I really enjoy this TV, especially the DVD!
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Excellent value and performance for a basic HDTV
We bought this unit for our den to fit into a 27" wide space and are very pleased so far. Easy to set up and run in 1080i mode with Time Warner cable - HDTV performance is excellent. Sports programming is particularly impressive - hockey and basketball are great in 16x9 format although optimum viewing distance for a set this size is around 6'. Regular TV programs can be viewed in a 4x3 centered image or stretched (distorted) to fill the screen. No surpises so far off the internal DVD and I've not tried using it as a computer monitor yet. I also wish it had a second HD component input for our xbox. It would be nice if I could get the TimeWarner remote to control the TV as well - I've not figured out how to do that yet. Colors are bright - I'd like black to be darker but am happier than I expected to be at this price. Biggest problem so far is I want a 40" LCD HDTV now for the living room.
Remember when those two satellites collided the other day? Seems that they'll be the space junk gift that keeps on giving, as their 800-km debris orbiting field could hamper all future space launches.
