Toshiba 32AV800A

Not really good at all – Honestly been giving me the cracks I've been trying to hook it to my mobile phone for a remote control for the TV cause I don't have the original one anymore but I can't hook it up to a control on a app on the mobile phone but I can't cause WiFi or something like that but I don't have WiFi so what can I do now?

The perfect TV for people wanting to develop more patience – We have the Toshiba 32LV800A (which seems to be a variation of the 32AV800A—the same manual covers both.) Let's start with the positives. The TV has picture and sound and you can watch stuff on it. The sound is even okay, for cheap TV speakers. You can watch a movie and understand most of the dialogue, which is more than can be said of some TV speakers. (Although the only way to really watch movies is with the TV connected to a decent sound system.)

Now on to the not-so-positives…

Step one: Point the remote at the TV.

Step two: Press the on button.

Step three: Go make yourself a cup of tea while the internal circuitry winds up and the black screen finally displays something.

The point is, this TV doesn't do anything quickly. I yearn for the days when you could hit the channel up button on an old analogue TV and the result was instant.

Speaking of analogue, the TV comes with it for backwards compatibility—sort of. I tried to hook up my old Commodore 64 via the antenna input and discovered that the TV is incapable of being tuned to the right frequency. Autotune doesn't find it, and manual tuning doesn't really exist, despite what the manual says. Selecting manual tuning actually locks you out of the whole process while it scans the frequencies by itself, while giving absolutely no feedback as to what frequencies it is scanning. After some time we see the C64 screen materialise briefly out of the static! … and then disappear again, and there's not a damned thing you can do to stop scanning and lock it in. Believe me, we've tried everything—even reading the manual. Perhaps there's something wrong with our TV. Or perhaps it was just programmed by a room full of typing monkeys. There's no way of knowing, since it's well and truly out of warranty now.

Oh, and the user interface is an abomination. Selecting TV channels from the guide when there is a long list of channels is just painful.

I'll be searching for a different brand next time we go TV shopping.

Good 32" tv for bedroom but electronic guide could be better – Overall this TV is not too bad - comparable to similar spec tv's from other brands (Samsung, LG, Panasonic), but much cheaper. The picture is what you would expect from 1366x768 display, not the sharpest on the market but this is a budget tv. I feel was better to get this one at a good price ($299 for the 32") rather than go for a cheap Chinese "no brand" model with built-in dvd player. I also picked up a matching Toshiba blu-ray player for $94. The sound is pretty ordinary but fine for a small room. The thing I find most annoying is the clunky electronic guide - all you can get is a list of tv channels down the LHS with the programming of the selected channel displayed on the right hand side. Not a patch on the guide on my Beyonwiz PVR or Panasonic plasma. Price and picture quality, also good energy efficiency Electronic guide could be better - you cannot set it out displaying multiple channels like my Beyonwiz.