Polaroid FLM-2601 26-Inch Widescreen LCD HDtv Monitor
- 26″ widescreen LCD HDTV display
- 1080i/720p/480p/480i digital compatibility
- 3
- 2 and 2
- 2 pull-down with motion compensation
Product Description
Polaroid is the worldwide leader in instant photography. The company supplies instant cameras and films; digital imaging hardware, software and media; identification systems; and sunglasses to markets worldwide.PRODUCT FEATURES:26″ 16: 9 HD-ready LCD TV/monitor;Built-in speakers;Progressive Scan;BTSC-sound with SRS Panoramic 3D sound completes your home theater experience;High brightness and contrast panel;181-channel television (NTSC) tuner;Sleep timer, closed capt… More >>
Polaroid FLM-2601 26-Inch Widescreen LCD HDtv Monitor
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They say about LCD televisions, you have to be careful. Because you can spend a lot of money and still get a bad TV.
I know that feeling now! Never before have I spent this much on a TV, and to get one so well, AVERAGE, is just ashame.
It has the reddest picture of any tv I’ve ever seen, you have to adjust it carefully to get something even close to decent, out-of-the box people look like the oompah woompah’s from Willy Wonka, only red instead of purple. After you get it adjusted, it looks somewhat better, but it will never render colors and blacks well at the same time.
the biggest thing for me, this was going to be my bedroom tv and my computer monitor. As a computer monitor it will only render 1024 x 768 with any clarity. It will not under any circumstances do its native resolution of 1366 x 768 on a computer…its a problem with the TV not supporting that resolution, not with the video card. And furthermore, don’t think you will do 1280 x 768 either…it supports that resolution, but text looks absolutely horrible. No 1024 x 768 is the only resolution that looks good enough to use.
And thats ashame, because it means essentially, that my lcd tv can display as many pixels as an ancient 15″ monitor, and the tv quality is worse than I’d expect from a 27″ crt.
Well, its thin….cannot take that from the machine, nice and thin. And if you don’t look too close, its a very nicely designed tv, looks sharp from the outside and may impress the Joneses.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’m not up to speed on the monitor/TV/HDTV marketplace at all, so I can’t really compare this to other products.
I was in the market for a computer monitor and my budget was $400 – $600 bucks. After looking around I realized I was going to get 20″ at best in that price range.
Anyway, I purchased this product for $700 on sale. A 26″ monitor for that price is an incredible value. I’m very happy with it.
My goal was to work on my computer and have the TV going at the same time. I can accomplish this with PIP.
The few things I don’t like about it:
1 – You can only use PIP mode from the VGA/DVI mode. Thus, when using your PC, you can insert a picture from any of the other inputs. The converse is NOT available
2 – The PIP mode where the screen is split into 2 halves is very limited. Again, this is only available from the VGA/DVI mode. You can’t control which input is on which side of the screen, and the VGA side scrunches up the resolution so I can read the text very well in my browser.
3 – You can’t swap inputs, obvioulsy based on what I previously have said, in the PIP mode.
All that said, for $700 bucks I couldn’t have gotten a better, bigger product. The picture is great.
If I were shopping for a high end TV for my home entertainment system this would not be my product of choice, but for a 26″ montior at $700, you won’t find one better.
I really enjoy it.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve had this now for 3 months (10 hours/day of business) and have been wary of other reviews but I must say that the set is absolutely perfect in terms of picture quality whether it’s HD or Analog too. After learning how to tweak the Colors which are always over saturated by most stations I have No complaints. When using DVD I noticed that there is NO Color deviation since the signal is pure so the presets are just fine. PC is also excellent at 1360×768 which comes up easily with a Good Video Card and driver and there is No Ghosting at all. Universal remote runs both TV, Cable & Teac Amplifier. So NO Red problems actually and speakers are so so but just use a subwoofer to augment them. Response time is 16ms too. Just remember when using a PC to always use the Native resolution, use the DVI input, select “Clear type for text effects & Sharpness will put the final touch on things.
Rating: 5 / 5
Please disregard the last reviewer’s comments since he had the setup completely wrong.
I used an old “All in Wonder Radeon 7500 AGP4″ and the system booted up immediately and after a few minutes of tweaking the resolutions it was just fine. 1360×768 is a DVI cable ONLY Resolution and using a VGA cable it’s 1280×720 Native on both. Color blows away anything I’ve ever worked on (Graphics rendering) and in VGA you have a Phasing control that tries to clear up any distortion. This SHOULD be available in the DVI too but it’s not and when doing fine text in the Native 1360 mode there’s a little distortion that shouldn’t be there. Remember that all this is in 16×9 Wide Aspect Ratio, which you can change on the fly via remote, so when in 4×3 mode (true PC @ 1024×768) it is fine with NO distortion but you get the black sides. The really amazing thing is you also get a TV Picture Window that will size and place anywhere on the PC Desktop just like the AIW card does. They stuck in something called “Picture by Picture” (PIP) and it just cuts the screen in half with one side PC (squashed) & one side the TV program. Only thing I could figure is running 2 TV pictures at once using the PC TV Card for what reason I don’t know.
The specs are not given for response time though (20-30ms?) and it seems a little Ghostly when moving things around like a Gif Animation but the real test would be a game which I haven’t tried yet.
TV performance is really amazing and I watched a 30-year-old movie (The Shining) on it using only basic cable and it was like being in the theater again. It has 4 levels of Noise reduction for picture quality including Auto which works fine. The remote is a work of art and it’s just like an expensive Logitech Mouse with a rubber underside and Excellent controls for everything so you can change anything while you’re in any mode. This is my first HDTV but I’ve always used good PC Monitors (currently 19″ LCD) and equipment and this is actually better than a monitor unless you buy a 24″ for around $1000 (HP) but no tuner. So the only negative things so far after only a couple of days testing are the Ghosting if that’s actually what it is and the Channel Numbers are too small. Overall I’d say that’s pretty darn good and if gaming is fine then it should get 5 stars.
Just use GOOD PC equipment and make sure to run a Clean OS with minimal background programs and it will be fine. I use an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ on an Nvidia Chipset board using 1gig of DDR and after upgrading the video it should be excellent (Radeon is too old).
Rating: 4 / 5