New TV - Vivo 32" LCD

[The_Hawk]

My Wife was in hospital this week (all good now, just recovering) but prompted me to get a TV setup in the bedroom so she can follow doctors orders and rest up in bed. (that and she can go to bed and I can finish the movie/motor sport/cricket )

Just wanted something small (although huge would have been damn nice) so was looking at the 32" LCD's and found a brand called Vivo at D|ck Smith Linky. It's full HD 1920 x 1080, has a couple of HDMI ports as well as the usual complement of component and composite connections. It's on special at the moment for $599 which I thought was a bargain all things considered.

Add to that a Jaycar wall mount for $70 (Linky) and your all set. We had a spare BluRay player from which became redundant after I got a PS3 and snapped up an Apple TV on special and BAM, mini home theatre!

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I've got one of those vivo's absolute bargain they are.

[Lorenz]

Nice setup Aaron, the Vivo looks like a knock off Samsung LA32B450C1D!
For $599 thats damn cheap, and Full HD... not bad!

Will have to make sure The Good Guys (where I work) have something to compete with that as that is stupidly cheap

[The_Hawk]

Apparently it's an LG panel. As for 32" around the price, they had a Sanyo for the same price or a slightly cheaper 1366 x 768 res model at $550, hell I considered Vivo 42" Plasma they have for $698, it looked OK in the store but with a res of only 1024 x 768 it has rectangular pixels. In reality it would probably be fine, but the full HD model just looked better (of course on a wall from across the room I think most people would be hard pressed to see a difference).

Stuck my head in JBHiFi as well, they have a Hisense 32" @ 1366 x 768 for $698 but really, $100 less and full HD? Why not

[Lorenz]

Does seem like a damn good deal. We have nothing to compare to that for that price, think the cheapest 32" FHD LCD is closer to $1000.
The Hisense suck, good move not getting that

[Peter Jones]

Kogan are doing some good stuff in the cheap and cheerful HD screen market too.

I've bought a couple of these lately and they're pretty good performers at a very competitive price.

http://www.kogan.com.au/

Pete