westinghouse Ld-4655vx not so great

[shovenose]

I've been using it a lot it's really not so epic I recently switched to using hdmi instead of vga...

What is the best I can do to make it better?
Also does this thing support ARC over HDMI I can't find this info anywhere.

Thanks!

[aaronwt6]

Re: westinghouse Ld-4655vx not so great

I managed to screw up the LED strips on the one I was repairing. Had the infamous shorted out area. Never could get all the LEDs to come on and finally broke the tab connectors trying to reseat the cables so many times. The whole set is so cheaply made its unreal.

[tom66]

Re: westinghouse Ld-4655vx not so great

What's "not so great" about it?

The fact that it's a cheap piece of junk, using a crap LCD panel, cheap LEDs with poor spectral response, and poor speakers? That's what you get with 95% of LED TVs today. About 5% of them are good, such as Sharp's ELITE and Sony's XBR900(?) series. The others may as well be lowest common denominator junk.

The TV is unlikely to support ARC... usually that is relegated to higher end TVs with a custom video processing IC (like Samsung, LG, Sony, Sharp, ...) These tend to use a HDMI multiplexer (basically having a 3-in-1 HDMI switch integrated into the set), so cannot support ARC, except in rare cases over only one HDMI port.

A decent 42" panny plasma made in 2008 beats the crap out of almost every LED TV nowadays, but uses a lot more power (like 350W compared to 50W.)

[aaronwt6]

Re: westinghouse Ld-4655vx not so great

I'll take the extra power consumption and the Plasma. I have an early 09' 1080P 50" LG and the picture is still awesome. Tried to convince myself that a couple new 55" Samsung LEDs that I picked up broken looked ok. The LG was back in our living room both times in less than a week.