Ricability iDTV Reviews

Panasonic TX-32LXD700

Ease of Use: 79%
Price: �773

Verdict: Good picture and sound quality, intuitive to use with well designed remote control, menu, TV guide and Now & Next - and it delivers audio description.

Panasonic TX-32LXD7

Ease of Use: 79%
Price: �649.99

Verdict: Good picture and sound quality, intuitive to use with well designed remote control, menu, TV guide and Now & Next - and it delivers audio description.

Panasonic TX-32LXD85

Ease of Use: 79%
Price: �749

Verdict: Good picture quality and sound quality OK and has an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts picture brightness for the room lighting - can help reduce energy consumption. Easy to install and intuitive to use and it delivers audio description.

Panasonic TX-26LMD70

Ease of Use: 78%
Price: �549

Verdict: Good picture quality and sound OK, intuitive to use with well designed remote control, menu, TV guide and Now & Next - and it delivers audio description.

JVC LT-26DA9BJ

Ease of Use: 64%
Price: �391.32

Verdict: Poor picture and sound quality. Easy to install and fairly easy to use with a generally well laid out remote control and clear to read TV guide.

JVC LT-32DP8BJ

Ease of Use: 63%
Price: �699

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK and generally fairly easy to use but TV guide displays single channel only, and a number of niggles eg poorly contrasted menu with poor prompts.

Sony KDL-32W4000

Ease of Use: 62%
Price: �779.99

Verdict: Good picture and sound quality and has an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts picture brightness for the room lighting - can help reduce energy consumption. Easy to install and fairly intuitive to use, but a long remote control so lots of shuffling.

LG 26LC55

Ease of Use: 62%
Price: �360.91

Verdict: Good picture quality and sound OK, fairly straightforward to use but TV guide and menu not easy to read.

Samsung LE26A457C1DXXU

Ease of Use: 62%
Price: �449.89

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK. Easy to install and fairly easy to use though fairly large remote control is a bit awkward to handle. This model delivers audio description.

Toshiba 32XV505DB

Ease of Use: 62%
Price: �555.95

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK. Easy to install but the TV guide was cluttered and slow to fill up. This model delivers audio description.

Samsung LE32A558P3FXXU

Ease of Use: 62%
Price: �599.99

Verdict: Picture quality OK but sound quality poor. Easy to install and fairly easy to use but the remote control was quite large with the navigation keys low down. This model delivers audio description.

JVC LT-26DA8BJ

Ease of Use: 62%
Price: �413.99

Verdict: Picture OK but poor sound quality, TV guide not easy to read and displays single channel only, plus other niggles eg poorly contrasted menu with poor prompts.

Samsung LE26S86BD

Ease of Use: 62%
Price: �449.99

Verdict: Scored badly on listening and viewing, poor instruction manual and a cluttered, poorly laid-out remote control, thoughotherwise fairly easy to use.

Samsung LE32R88BD [R]

Ease of Use: 62%
Price: �579

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK and generally fiarly easy to use but let down by a cluttered, poorly laid-out remote control and poor instruction manual.

Samsung LE26R87BDX/XEU

Ease of Use: 62%
Price: �405

Verdict: Reasonable sound but poor picture quality. Good TV guide but limited Now & Next.

Toshiba 32CV505DB

Ease of Use: 62%
Price: �649

Verdict: Picture and sound quality poor and cluttered TV guide. But straightforward on-screen menus, well laid out remote control and good front panel controls. This model can handle audio description.

Sony KDL-20B4050

Ease of Use: 61%
Price: �330.44

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK and this model can handle audio description. Fairly intuitive to use with a simply laid out remote control, but poorly placed navigation and menu buttons.

LG 32LT75-ZA

Ease of Use: 61%
Price: �518

Verdict: An LCD that can record and has the latest Freeview Playback features. Picture and sound quality OK. Fairly straightforward to use with intuitive on-screen menus. Remote control has lots of shiny buttons.

Sony KDL-32D3000

Ease of Use: 60%
Price: �799

Verdict: Good picture quality and sound OK, fairly intuitive to use with a simply laid-out remote control except for poorly placed navigation keys - but it delivers audio description.

Sony KDL-32S3000

Ease of Use: 60%
Price: �449.99

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK, fairly intuitive to use with a simply laid-out remote control except for poorly placed navigation keys - but it delivers audio description.

Sony KDL-26T3000

Ease of Use: 60%
Price: �456

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK and fairly intuitive to use with a simply laid out remote control, but let down by poorly placed navigation keys - but it delivers audio description.

LG 32LG5000

Ease of Use: 60%
Price: �430.53

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK and has an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts picture brightness for the room lighting - can help reduce energy consumption. Fairly straightforward to use but a lot of shuffling with the long remote control.

LG 32LB75

Ease of Use: 60%
Price: �482.25

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK and fairly straightforward to use but TV guide and menus not easy to read.

Toshiba 20W330DB

Ease of Use: 60%
Price: �338

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK, good remote control layout and menu navigation, but let down by a cluttered TV guide.

JVC LT-20DA7SK

Ease of Use: 59%
Price: �283.99

Verdict: A basic TV that was fairly easy to use with navigation controls central on the remote but also too many small buttons with multi labels. Good picture quality for this size, poor sound.

Toshiba 32C3035D

Ease of Use: 58%
Price: �518.9

Verdict: Picture quality OK but sound poor, good remote control layout and menu navigation, but let down by a cluttered TV guide.

Sony KDL-20S2030

Ease of Use: 57%
Price: �444

Verdict: Better than most at picking up weaker digital TV signals and fairly intuitive to use. Good picture quality for this size, poor sound.

Sharp LC-32X20E

Ease of Use: 52%
Price: �737.28

Verdict: Picture and sound quality poor. No option to set up favourite channels groups though you can re-order channels in the TV guide. Fairly complex on-screen menus and cluttered remote control.

Hitachi L26H01U

Ease of Use: 52%
Price: �404.94

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK but TV guide showed only one channel at a time and lacked prompts. Well delineated remote control with good size buttons, but unbalanced and weighty to handle.

Sharp Aquos LC-20AD5E-BK

Ease of Use: 51%
Price: �328

Verdict: Picture OK but poor sound quality and let down by a cluttered TV guide, two differently styled menus and some long winded setting features.

Sharp LC26D44E-GY

Ease of Use: 51%
Price: �499

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK but not very easy to use. Intuitive TV guide but cluttered and poorly laid out remote control. Daunting instruction manual.

Sharp Aquos LC-32AD5E-BK

Ease of Use: 50%
Price: �449.99

Verdict: Sound quality OK but poor picture quality, a cluttered TV guide, two differently styled menus and some long winded setting features.

Philips 19PFL5522D/05

Ease of Use: 49%
Price: �275.88

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK but TV guide showed up to one hour only at a time and along with on-screen menu, not intuitive to use.

Philips 26PFL5522D/05

Ease of Use: 49%
Price: �374.99

Verdict: Good picture and reasonable sound quality but TV guide not intuitive nor easy to use.

Hitachi L32H01U A

Ease of Use: 49%
Price: �449.99

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK but let down by unintuitive menu and TV guide, single channel only displayed.

Philips 26PFL7532D/ 05

Ease of Use: 48%
Price: �499

Verdict: Good picture quality but poor sound, unintuitive TV guide and poorly laid out menu that was confusing to navigate.

Philips 32PFL9632D/10

Ease of Use: 48%
Price: �799

Verdict: Picture quality OK but poor sound, fully featured and easy to navigate with logical processes, but let down by too complex menu and poor TV guide.

Philips 32PFL5522D/05

Ease of Use: 48%
Price: �396

Verdict: Picture quality OK but poor sound, a frustrating, unintuitive TV guide and illogically laid-out menu that was confusing to navigate.

Zinox Z26HDF200

Ease of Use: 48%
Price: �299.89

Verdict: Picture quality OK and good sound quality, but TV guide shows only one TV channel at a time and is slow to fill up. Not very easy to use with a cluttered remote control.

Sanyo CE32LD81-B

Ease of Use: 47%
Price: �459.99

Verdict: Picture quality OK but poor sound and frustrating to use mainly due to the design of the remote control navigation keys, lack of prompts and 'backup' in the menu and TV guide displays single channel only.

Philips 32PFL7603D

Ease of Use: 44%
Price: �799

Verdict: Picture quality OK but sound quality poor. Has an ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts picture brightness for the room lighting - can help reduce energy consumption. Easy to navigate but the TV guide has no timeline.

Daewoo DLT20W2

Ease of Use: 43%
Price: �289.95

Verdict: Picture OK but poor sound quality and let down by two different styled menus, some long winded setting features and other niggles eg cannot access programme information on current channel.

Daewoo DTL-26C3FTB

Ease of Use: 43%
Price: �373.23

Verdict: Picture and sound quality OK but let down by two different styled menus, some long winded setting features and other niggles eg cluttered remote control.

Sanyo CE26LD81-B

Ease of Use: 43%
Price: �445

Verdict: Reasonable sound but poor picture quality and TV guide slow to grab all the programmes when first switched on.

Humax LP32-TDR1

Ease of Use: 42%
Price: �550

Verdict: An LCD that can record but was not easy to use and had some drawbacks eg a limited TV guide and favourites and poor picture.