Bought a new toy today. Thanks to Shan-Shan for babysitting the kids while me & Vivian went to pick it up from JB Hi-Fi.
Since I moved to Sydney in 1995 (gee, that was 16 years ago!) we have never really had a TV at home. I guess I never really felt the “need”. The closest thing to a TV would be this Dell 19″ monitor that we connect to a desktop box with TV tuner — in fact we were still using that yesterday! Anna & Elsie have to literally stand next to the “TV” to get a clear picture. So enough is enough. We saw this being advertised at JB Hi-Fi for $999. Went to check it out yesterday, and took one home today. Without negotiation the sales guy gave us $30 discount, and we purchased $129 extended warranty so hopefully it would be good for 5 years.
So — Okano LTV5500F is a 55″ (139cm) Full HD (1920×1080) LCD TV. No LED backlit. No fancy thin profile. “Cheap” and “Big” are about its only two virtue. Picture quality is good enough (as we were comparing to a 19″ Dell UltraSharp the day before), although it probably won’t compare to a Sony/Samsung LCD or a Panasonic Plasma in the shop (that are 2x or 3x the price). It has 100Hz refresh rate, 2x HDMI inputs, USB inputs to attach external storage, and built in PVR function to record DTV shows.
Okano is a rebadged Soniq I heard. But I guess it’s the same with other Chinese brand — you get what you pay for, but we are fine with that :) Now I am just waiting for a new Xbox 360 and a Kinet bundle bargain…
Hahaha, you’ve finally succumbed to the TV =) Go for the Kinect hacks on your living room PC!
I got one of these too, the 100hz is a scam. The sticker on the TV says 120hz. Press the info button and it is only 60hz. I have a blue ray hooked up via HDMI and at 1080p I am only getting 60hz and 50hz for TV channels. Check it out.
Cheers
Hi, looking at one of these but can’t find much info about them, does it have PIP, any upscaling , whats the refresh rate? It seems to have a good picture, but what about sports/motion blur?
Cheers,
Ace
no pip, on 50hz but they lied to me in store and said it was 100hz. Blu rays are excellent via HDMI and so is One HD, all SD channels look crap but ok from a distance.
Marcus,
The TV is 100Hz, your bluray player only outputs 60Hz and DTV is only 50Hz, the TV is doubling up the frame rate to 100/120Hz.
Turn on the 100Hz Motion Plus features in the Picture menu (they are on by default in any case, so maybe turn it off) and see the difference when new frames are added in by the internal processing. Amazing what it does for sport and cartoons, but it makes movies look overly fake.
Ace, no PIP, upscaling is good, and the panel is pretty good at fast motion, and has Motion Plus to remove jitter/judder.
Yeah I have been playing Xbox 360 on it over the last couple of weeks and it looks pretty good. Kids have no complain (consider they only had 19″ LCD before) and I don’t watch enough TV to tell the difference. My couch is around 6-7 metres away from the TV so the SD upscaling is a non-issue. One problem is that it still looks not big enough from that distance :P
If anything goes wrong with your TV, JB HiFi will take NO responsibility. I expect a TV to last more than 4 months
I totally agree with Pat Kennedy. I have returned my Okano tv to JB Hi Fi they dont want to know you when you take the tv back. I too think a tv should last more than 4 months. Never again will I buy this brand
absolute rubish tv .. lasted 6 months now its distorted and i cant get digital channels … never again