Pretty cheap 40" LED for rumpus room or bedroom. Was looking for a cheap 32" but found this and got this instead. Vouchers ends today
Delivery $14.95
Spec are as follow
Size: 40" (101.5cm)
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Screen Type: LCD Panel with LED Backlighting
Contrast Ratio: 5000:1
Brightness: 260cd/m2 max
Response Time: 8ms
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Viewing Angle: 160 degress wide x 150 degrees high
Audio Output Power - 2 x 7W
Great price! I wish I needed one.
1080i
it's 1080P
Not according to the specs.
Progressive Scan No
How is that even possible? LCDs don't update in an interlaced fashion.
I don't think there is 1920x1080 panel that can only do 1080i. They should all do 1080P
@eug:
No idea, but I don't trust it enough to buy without first checking out in-store.
Also, they just raised the price by $20 so guess I'm not even gonna bother :D
@mahdi8: There are no interlaced LCD TVs or monitors at all. Interlacing is just a cheap method to save bandwidth during the dark old days of analog transmission (and dark new days of low-bandwidth digital TV). LCDs now are all progressive.
Also, they just raised the price by $20 so guess I'm not even gonna bother :D
How sneaky! I wonder if the original price was a mistake.
No, it converts 1080p rather than displaying directly. At least, I have a 42" DSE that functions this way. The issue is with the image processor in the TV, not the LCD panel itself. If you give it a 1080i signal, the image is fine. If you give it 1080p, it does some weird conversion that blurs/corrupts the image and makes text look like garbage. Further, my 42" (and probably this one too) doesn't support direct pixel mapping, so there is no simple way to disable overscan. Like you, I thought that nobody would sell a "Full HD" 1920x1080 TV in 2014 that did not support direct pixel mapping and 1080p input. I was sadly mistaken
What happens over VGA?
@eug: It can be driven at 1920x1080 60Hz which is progressive, but this is near the upper limit of VGA and the quality is not quite as good as if it was proper digital 1080p. However, IIRC the biggest problem was that the VGA auto adjust settings (timing etc.) are reset when the TV is turned off and on, which means that to get decent picture quality with VGA you have to go several steps into the menu and auto-adjust the image every time you turn the TV on. Further, the auto-adjust only really works well if you have an artificial test image over the entire screen http://randysimons.nl/125,english/131,tft-sync-pattern/. The resulting picture does look good, but I'm not going to open this up and go into the TV menus every time I turn the TV on just to get an image that isn't blurry. So I have settled on using 1080i and putting up with the motion problems due to the clarity, and never buying a DSE TV again without really checking these things carefully.
Could you not set your blu-ray player, gaming console or PVR to output in 1080i only so then it would be your blu-ray player etc doing the conversion which it may be better at doing. As far as the TV is concerned it's receiving a correct 1080i signal. I'd say that would be the best solution to overcome the problem.
What's the refresh on these? 50hz?
+$15 additional off if you have the amex offer saved to your card.
Personally I'm waiting for prices like this to return before I buy a larger TV for our console gaming room.
yeah that looks like a pricing error which unlikely to be repeated at the same price (not an error) for a year maybe?
Is it really that cheap? I bought the TCL 40" FHD LCD (not LED) for $297 almost two years ago https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/86322 thought now they should all be $200?
bought the TCL, still going strong!
code works on other tvs too shaves off 40
Yeah will work on all TV's bar Sony and Panasonic
Price 309$ after voucher, correct the title.
was $329?? after $40 off code should be $289. Well it is DSE so not surprised the price fluctuates like share prices
now its showing as $349
Yep, update title or mark as expired.
did they just raised the price?
I think they changed the price a few minutes ago.
There was a lunchtime special, price $329
i bought 2 of these for $299 each. they are great.
http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/pendo-40-full…
This seems like a good deal
Yup! Not much stock in Brisbane unfortunately. Just "Limited" in Virginia.
Damn, I bought a Soniq 42" for $349 not long ago… this looks like a great deal
The Seiki full HD 55" for $465 Delivered 2 days ago was the best deal
Did you buy it? How is the picture quality compared with this DSE branded tv? I bought the 65" for $831 but haven't received yet.
You have to use the promo voucher in the thread description to make it $309. Still even at that price it's a good buy.
LOL @ Specifications
"Remote Control : No"
Surely a mistake. :)
Can read your mind!
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I want to mount this to a wall, specs say Not Mountable… Anybody have any experience mounting dick smith TVs? I didn't know there were TVs that werent mountable.
really need VESA mounting.
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I suspect they are wall mountable. DSE specs are often not very accurate….
FWIW I got the 54.5" Tandy a couple of months ago for $493 and am very happy with it. Yes - wall mounted with my COTD $10 bracket, thanks to OZB..
Seems to be the DSE unit with a different label. Even the remote control is the same, albeit with the Tandy label. I would imagine the Seiki units are the same too but have not seen one. How many container loads of TVs are DSE bringing in themselves and selling just like Kogan I wonder? At least it keeps price pressure onto companies like Samsung/LG etc.
Ordered, thanks for the info
I actually ordered this yesterday from their Ebay link and got it for $300.80 including shipping!
edit: I forgot to mention i used 15% promo
got the 55" version of this tv and it works great, looks amazing with my xbox one
no ghosting, lag or any issues
Let us know what you think of it.
The remotes have always been crap