Konka LCD TV

[Manxman]

http://www.dse.co.nz/dse.shop/4a5474...ct/View/GE6497

Any informed opinions on on what they're like????

[vindy500]

nope but my guess is they would be shit

[Slicksta]

Shit thats cheap for 1080p find out who makes there panels

[p.dath]

I tend to stick to brand names I have heard off. At least you know you'll be able to get parts and get it serviced if it breaks down.

[hayd3n]

sounds like something to wife would use if ya ever cheated

[Big Dave]

I have one that Dick Smith were keen to get rid of. Cheap. You get what you pay for.

Movies and general TV DVD - Fair.

Computer Monitor or Sports TV. Not very good. Grainy or Pixelated.


Edit - Oops - I have a much cheaper / smaller Model

[MattRSK]

That's 1500 dollars! Wait till Harvey Norman have a sale and get a good Sony/Panasonic/Samsung for that price!!!!!!!! Just don't by the monster cable they will try and force on you.

[p.dath]

That's 1500 dollars! Wait till Harvey Norman have a sale and get a good Sony/Panasonic/Samsung for that price!!!!!!!! Just don't by the monster cable they will try and force on you.

+1. Especially if buying HDMI cables. If the cable is compliant with the spec, it is compliant with the spec. Getting a more expensive cable compliant with the same spec will make *zero* difference (unless perhaps you are getting a really long cable - 20m+).
HDMI transmits the picture digitally.

[sosman]

Go to a shop that has lots of LCD tv's...playing the same Dvd/movie at once.
:Then stair at each & every one for long periods of time!..
:Make up yr mind
:Jingle bells sorted

[Skyryder]

http://www.dse.co.nz/dse.shop/4a5474...ct/View/GE6497

Any informed opinions on on what they're like????

If the price is right maybe. I'd need to know what kind of service and availbility of parts.

http://konka.manufacturer.globalsour...5/Homepage.htm

NZ is going to get more of Chinese made goods thanks to the Chinese Trade agreement.

Many thought this trade deal was good for NZ export and manufacture and so it might be but the down side is that if we sell we also gota buy and there is the real possibility of cheap shonky goods that is going to be flooded into the NZ market.

But having said that I can remember a time when Japanese goods were considered inferior in much the same way as Chinese goods are today so I'd have a good look at it. Could be OK


Skyryder

[jrandom]

Just don't by the monster cable they will try and force on you.

Expensive digital hi-fi cables are hilarious, as are the people who buy them and then go to work and plug their laptops into cables that cost $5/metre and carry signals with ten or a hundred times more bandwidth.

None of them ever seem to notice that.

[Headbanger]

Having witnessed a Konker in action I'd have to say it was the second worst LCD I have ever had the misfortune to sit in front of. Not worth buying at any price, and that price isn't cheap.

[slofox]

Konka, huh? More like Konk Out I bet...

[Big Dave]

Having witnessed a Konker in action I'd have to say it was the second worst LCD I have ever had the misfortune to sit in front of. Not worth buying at any price, and that price isn't cheap.

I use an expensive apple cinema for main work and as cheap as I can get for a second - for psd pallettes and word docs and stuff. I spend a lot of time converting documents or media lately so a cheap big screen is easy real estate.

I got a 22" Konka Monitor/TV for $275. 'Shop display - very good for you sir'.

The dude lied to me about the cable too.

And I still have a large Konka.

[YellowDog]

Expensive digital hi-fi cables are hilarious, as are the people who buy them and then go to work and plug their laptops into cables that cost $5/metre and carry signals with ten or a hundred times more bandwidth.

None of them ever seem to notice that.

The way cables are priced really is quite interesting.

$1-$2 cables seem to come in $13.99 packaging.

I have however found that the cheaper priced Chinese cables do tend to fall apart if you unplug and replug them more than half a dozen times.

Regarding the cheap TV, I got the wife a 24" one for the bedroom (a TV). The make I got is Kogan, which is probably very similar to what you are looking at.

The main thing about the cheap TVs is that the sound quality tends to be very poor (fine for the bedroom) and they usually have a low contrast ratio displays (fine for the bedroom).

IMO - Forget 1080p. It's bollox and unless you want to use a Playstation or BlueRay player, there's no point. You can pick up a recognised brand 1080i TV with an excellent picture and great sound very cheaply from any of the big stores.