Product Description

You are looking on a high quality Maxim 17'' television. If you are looking for a smart TV for your bedroom, kitchen or study room this is one TV that stands out from all others. The design is stunning and the number connection options mean you can even use this as a PC monitor COME COMPLETE IN ITS ORIGINAL BOX, WITH CABLES, USER GUIDE AND REMOTE CONTROL. Specification 17" LCD NICAM STEREO HEADPHONE SOCKET 1 X SCART SOCKET OSD TELETEXT PLL TUNER PC INPUT

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32319 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Polaroid Consumer Electronics Europe B.V.
• Model: TLU-01941WU
• Released on: 2008-03-24

Customer Reviews

5 star looker for a low price
Bought this TV to wall mount in one of our spare rooms. It looks really nice in gloss white. Picture quality good (not quite as good as my Philips), instructions good, fast setup (a couple of minutes) plenty of leads, a nice remote and good sound. Build quality seems good (not sure who ultimately makes this brand) and the set is easy to lift since it has a recessed carrying handle.

Could have done with a free wall bracket (they would cost peanuts to make) and the connections could be more appropriately positioned to come out of the bottom of the set vertically instead of horizontally out of the back, in order to make wall mounting easier/flusher with the wall. However, the controls are on the side of the set which is actually ideal for wall mounting (you don't have to reach for the top of the set) so it is a mixed bag.

Even the box it came in was nice with a decent carrying handle. Overall I am impressed and whilst I wouldn't have this is a primary set, it is fantastic value for money as a secondary and I am very pleased with it.

Good set at the price
This is a good 19" TV set for under £160. It looks good in white, the picture quality is great, the sound is fine and the menus are generally good.

There are some bad points though: (1) the viewing angle from below the screen is terrible - appears black from below (from the sides and above it is good - so as long as you can angle the TV so as you not looking at it from below you'll be fine), (2) the entry points for all the connections hang out from the back of the TV making flush wall mounting impossible, (3) you can only view 1 channel at a time in the TV guide.

As long as you can live with these bad points I would really recommend this set.

More than just cheap and cheerful, this one's positively sunshiny
Fantastic low price for a 19-inch HD-ready widescreen LCD with Freeview, though an initial glance does make it easy to see where the savings were made. The stand is a bit flimsy, the entire backplane flexes away from you when you push the power lead home, and some of the Freeview features appear to have been implemented as part of a GCSE project. For example, rather than showing a grid full of channels and times like you'd see on any standalone digibox, this Polaroid's electronic program guide (EPG) only shows limited information on one selected channel. It's easily the most useless EPG I've ever seen, and as such means you're missing out on one of the main reasons to go digital. Don't cancel your Radio Times subscription just yet!

Thing is, I'm not sure that such things would put me off. I'm still amazed at the vibrant picture, the decent quality sound, and the remote control layout which is a paragon of clarity. I bought this TV for my parents to use in their kitchen, and not only does it blend in perfectly with its surroundings, they can also actually use it and understand it and enjoy it. There's no reason it wouldn't work brilliantly in a bedroom too.

So to summarise:

THE GOOD
+ Unbelievably cheap widescreen HDTV
+ Integrated Freeview
+ Great picture, great sound
+ Takes no more than 2 minutes to get set up
+ Your mum and dad can use it
+ The right holes for wall mounting
+ VGA connection means it can double as a 1440x990 monitor
+ HDMI connection plus a host of others you'll never use (e.g. YPbPr)

THE BAD
+ Alarmingly low quality in places
+ Program guide a complete joke