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Westinghouse TX-47F430S 47-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV | 
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| Brand: Westinghouse
Category: CE
Buy New: Too low to display
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 29087
Color: Black/Dark Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries: 2
Batteries Included: Yes
Display Size: 7
Shipping Weight (lbs): 67.5
Dimensions (in): 48 x 10.5 x 31.5
MPN: TX-47F430S
Model: TX-47F430S
UPC: 882777051207
EAN: 0882777051207
ASIN: B000NIZ5JU
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Manufacturer Warranty - 1 year | | • | Color - Black/Silver | | • | Device Type - LCD TV | | • | Max Resolution - 1920 x 1080 | | • | - Color Capability: 16.7 Million colors |
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Product Description
Bring style sophistication and technology advancement to your cinema room with this TX-47F430S, a 47" 1080p LCD HDTV- truly the perfect TV for your entire cinema needs. This LCD HDTV offers 1080Pure - 1080p resolution out of all HD inputs, an astounding four HDMI inputs, and an integrated ATSC/NTSC/ClearQAM tuner. This display is not only an engineering marvel but designed with class and sophistication; featuring subtle lines and a thin 5.5" casing this display has a deep onyx bezel with brushed titanium gray accents. Enjoy the latest Blu-ray or HD DVD movie, or watching your favorite HD TV show.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
Get what you pay for: decent TV for a decent price December 29, 2008
I've had this TV for over a year now and it has been a fine TV during most of that time. This is a quick, simple review of my experience with it:
Pros:
-It's hard to get a large 1080p picture for much less. The value is very good. This was my first HDTV and I could only grin when I first saw a good 1080p signal on it. Its an incredible leap from analog cable.
-Allows for full appreciation of Blu-ray. This media is so much better than DVD for video quality. Suggestion: Do not buy Blu-ray discs, but rent from Blockbuster or Netflix.
-Simple to set up with easy menu navigation and fairly expansive settings
-Performance surpasses its price
-Built in tuners are very capable. Over the air 1080p looks great.
-Very good 480i scaling. It makes the difference between analog and digital 480i cable almost unnoticeable.
-Many inputs. My roommate and I have quite a few game systems and the 4 HDMI inputs have been very useful.
-Built in sound system is good, but will eventually develop vibrations.
Cons:
-Experiences PS3 flickering over HDMI (See below)
-Poor black levels: must decide between dark blacks with bad shadow definition -or- good shadow definition and gradient with noticeably light blacks
-Poor scaling of 480p signal. My Wii looks better on 480i than 480p settings.
-Slight shadowing of 1080p VGA signal. Remedied by using DVI output from PC to VGA converter.
-The settings for all of the HDMI inputs are linked. You can set specific video settings for all the different inputs except the HDMI inputs, which all must have the same settings. Changing the brightness for one changes it for all of them, for instance.
Issues:
-It looked much better after adjusting the settings at home than it did in the store; set the sharpness up to 70 or 80, for instance.
-Slight Audio-Visual lag at times. I can't reproduce the pattern, but sometimes the voice will come significantly before the movement of the actor's mouth. This is especially detrimental in fast-reaction based games.
-My PS3 connected via HDMI would flicker. The signal would go in and out, which was very disconcerting during a climactic action scene on a 1080p blu-ray. This problem was especially prevalent on 720p signals. THIS HAS SINCE SUBSIDED AND DOES NOT HAPPEN ANYMORE. I'm not sure why.
-Recently, my set has experience significant red "snow" or fuzz in dark areas with distortion of whites or light grays. I luckily bought the set with a credit card that provides an extended warranty, but otherwise I would be out of luck. It makes some media almost unwatchable. This has been a major problem and will require repairs. Note that this issue arose less than 2 years into the life of the set.
-I attempted to update my firmware and this process was impossibly difficult. The site does not let you download by mouse click, but instead requires that you input your serial number. It tells my mine is invalid. Westinghouse phone support is of no help in this matter.
Overall:
This far after the purchase, I can say that I would only recommend this set if you are absolutely dying to have an HDTV and are feeling very light in the checkbook, like I was. I would not buy a 720p TV ever, but this is the bare minimum for a 1080p set. If you're going to spend the $1000, go ahead and spend the extra few hundred for a better set, especially with deeper blacks. It will bother you if you're in a dark room watching a nighttime scene in a movie and the night sky looks like a dull gray light filling the room. Also, things like black suits and hair lose their definition on this set. I have had numerous issues with the set and am now having it repaired a year and a half after buying it. Like I said, this set made me smile when I first had 1080p video and games on it, but the problems and shortcomings make me wish I had spent just a little more.
 Do you feel lucky, Punk?!? December 22, 2008
Great TV, IF you get one that stays working. Great sound, great picture, great tuner and inputs, great in most every respect. Spotty reliability, and pee poor service if you need warranty service. Get it cheap and get a 3rd party warranty and it'd be reasonable, just do not leave yourself at the mercy of Westinghouse.
After WH support saying that someone will call in 4-5 days, that plus a few and still no call. Then finally get through to the local service, and guess what? No action at all! "Well we have thousands of customers, and there's just me" says the receptionist. 2 or 3 weeks to get the part, after they order it too! Then just the one part WH phone support thinks it is, if they've guessed wrong and the power board happens to have taken out the other board or the screen I could literally be looking at months.
The set is almost wonderful! A percent or two on better engineering, a percent or two to go ahead and ship boards out when called for and 2nd day air etc and things would be fine. Instead they run a seriously mickey mouse repair method to save a few bucks, and guarantee that customers buy something else next time. WH management makes the Big 3 CEO's look like geniuses..
Got it at Costco, and fortunately after the warranty repair problems they took it back despite being outside the 90 day direct return period. If they hadn't been decent I'd have been screwed at least for weeks if not 2 or 3 months.
Great stuff if it stays working, but you'll be quite sorry if you get one of the bad ones. Costco stopped carrying a couple weeks after my purchase, they and several other retailers had a good price and sold them off 6 months ago. No need to wonder why.
You get what you pay for November 30, 2008
I bought this back in May 2007 when it first came out because the death of my previous TV put me in a bind. Had I waited to see some more reviews, I probably would have purchased a different model. First the pros:
* Good price for a 1080p of this size.
* Sharp, bright image image. Seems to resolve pixel-for pixel on HDMI.
* Does 1080p over component, which is good for those of you with older Xbox 360s.
* Plenty of inputs.
* Digital and analog tuners use a single cable.
* No significant response-time problems
* Low weight and small footprint mean you can place this on many kinds of stands and movie it without too much difficulty.
Now the cons:
* Image brightness a bit uneven, though not awful.
* It crops 480p signals in wide mode about 5% each off top and bottom and less at the sides. This is true for both component and HDMI. High-def signals are framed correctly.
* HDMI is finnicky. My PS3 wouldn't be recognized for a long time, then started working again, then quit again, then when I got the repair people out, it worked and has worked since. I tried the PS3 on another HDMI TV and it worked fine, so the problem was the Westinghouse. It also blinked out for a second or two from time to time when it did work.
* Can't be calibrated quite correctly. I couldn't get color bars to spec no matter what I did, though it comes quite a bit closer than many cheaper TVs. I got reb and blue close to right, though still visibly off, but it has a significant green push that can't be adjusted out.
* The TOSLINK out seems to down-mix everything to 2-channel. This means you can't watch HDTV in 5.1 without an external tuner. I have no idea why it would do this as it requires alteration to the signal.
* Navigation of digital channels is poor. You have to cycle through them, rather than directly entering the number, which can be a pain wihen you have to flip past twenty channels of digital music.
* The worst problem is the black levels. Blacks actually glow. There is no shadow detail to speak of. Many video games were unplayable until I cranked them to just not look dark anymore. Kristin Kreuk's hair is just a void in the picture, as is the case for any other dark-haired actor. This really cuts into the benefits of high-def presentation.
 Amazing Product for its Price October 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this TV last month and I absolutely love it. It's priced nicer than most rival televisions, and has some great features. I really enjoy having the VGA PC input as well as the 4 HDMI inputs. You can use the remote to toggle between the inputs so easily that this HDTV has been most used as my computer monitor. I have my laptop plugged into the VGA input and my PC plugged into one of the HDMI inputs. Both the VGA and HDMI of the inputs accept multiple resolutions: I generally use the 1920x1080 but 1280x1024 and 1024x768 work as well. I was a bit concerned about this TV's usability as a computer monitor as I had not found many reviews from people who tried it, but I assure anyone with doubts that this TV will be the best computer monitor you can find!
Many reviews of this TV will say the blacks are not as dark as they could be. That is an accurate statement, but what I think is more notable is the colors are so fantastic! This definitely has much better contrast than competing HDTVs at the same price, and the colors just blow me away. The sound is better than other HDTVs I've heard, but I use separate speakers for the most part.
 DO NOT; I REPEAT, DO NOT PURCHASE THIS TV!!! October 6, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I purchased this HDTV just over a year ago. Out of the box I was impressed with the picture and thought I had received an amazing deal on this value-priced 1080P HDTV. Then after about a month I started having problems with the HDMI connections. More often than not the TV would not recognize the DVD player connected via HDMI unless I restarted the TV with a powercycle. Over the course of a year between my wife and me we put maybe 500 hours on it, which is quite low. About two weeks after my one-year warranty ran out I was watching TV, hit one of the "Favorites" buttons and the TV became stuck on one channel. I pushed nearly every button on the remote and got nothing, so I tried holding the power button in for 10 seconds to do a power-cycle restart. The TV restarted, the white Westinghouse symbol popped up for a few seconds and then the screen went black while the power lights remained on. Unplugged/replugged in the TV several times and got the same results.
Emailed the Westinghouse customer service a couple times and was told they'd never heard of this issue before. Googled the issue and found a few others with the same problem, but no solution, so I called up Westinghouse for help. Took a looong time to get through, but finally got someone to try a couple fixes with me...no luck. As soon as I mentioned the TV was a couple weeks out of warranty the phone call came to a drastic halt and was told I had to find a local repairman. Thanks for the $1,500 brick Westinghouse!
Took the TV to the only LCD repairman in the area and he told me I should have bought a Samsung or a Sony because Westinghouse uses cheap crappy parts. TVs been in the shop for almost three weeks now. Repairman thinks it's a bad circuit board.
Learn from my mistake...buy something else!
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