Hyundai HL700MT 17" LCD Flat-Panel TV

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Summary: Poor quality shows
Review: As far as a monitor, I think it is a good one. It seems bright and sharp. The TV aspect has some things about it I don't like. First, it comes with an external TV tuner which must be connected to a port on the back of the display. I tried very hard to determine if this was the case before I ordered it, but could not from the various descriptions I could find on the web. It is however pretty small and not a major inconvenience, but I still would prefer one built in. Next, it has a very limited remote control. No direct number input for channel selection, just up and down arrows. There are 5 input choices for this display and you must step through them all to get to the one you want. No direct selection on the remote. This is a real negative to me. Now for the display itself. For TV viewing it is fair. Not as sharp and focused as using it for a computer monitor. On tuner input everything is just a little fuzzy. Not near as good as a CRT TV. It is step better using the s-video input, but this means you must have another tuning device between it and the TV signal. If you have a sat. receiver using s-video or composite video inputs is the best choice. The most annoying feature to me is the strange ghost image that is left on the screen. To clarify, if you are watching something like a baseball game, they usually have a box score at the top or the corner of the screen that stays there all the time. When they go to commercial, you can still see a faint or ghost image of that information. It slowly fades after a minute or two, so it is nothing permanent. The same thing happens when I display the channel guide. After you exit the channel guide, you can still see its ghost for about a minute or two. Maybe this wouldn't bother some people, but it just doesn't seem normal to me. What is most puzzling is the same thing does not happen when it is being used for a comp. monitor. No residual image at all when moving between web pages or other o.s. windows. Hard for me to figure this one out without talking to tech. support. It is a nice unit cosmetically and I do like having a TV and monitor all in one for space reasons. I wish I had a way to compare this unit to other combos for their TV and video quality. Oh, and one other thing. TWO DEAD PIXELS! Probably not enough to mess with trying to replace even if they would. 17 inches of flat panel display and all I can see is this one green pixel in the middle of the screen. The red one over near the edge is ignorable. I give it 3 stars I guess because I don't love it, but don't hate it either. One more thing. You will want external speakers for it. The internal speakers have about the same fidelity as the average laptop.

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Summary: Monitor has some shortcomings
Review: As far as a monitor, I think it is a good one. It seems bright and sharp. The TV aspect has some things about it I don't like. First, it comes with an external TV tuner which must be connected to a port on the back of the display. I tried very hard to determine if this was the case before I ordered it, but could not from the various descriptions I could find on the web. It is however pretty small and not a major inconvenience, but I still would prefer one built in. Next, it has a very limited remote control. No direct number input for channel selection, just up and down arrows. There are 5 input choices for this display and you must step through them all to get to the one you want. No direct selection on the remote. This is a real negative to me. Now for the display itself. For TV viewing it is fair. Not as sharp and focused as using it for a computer monitor. On tuner input everything is just a little fuzzy. Not near as good as a CRT TV. It is step better using the s-video input, but this means you must have another tuning device between it and the TV signal. If you have a sat. receiver using s-video or composite video inputs is the best choice. The most annoying feature to me is the strange ghost image that is left on the screen. To clarify, if you are watching something like a baseball game, they usually have a box score at the top or the corner of the screen that stays there all the time. When they go to commercial, you can still see a faint or ghost image of that information. It slowly fades after a minute or two, so it is nothing permanent. The same thing happens when I display the channel guide. After you exit the channel guide, you can still see its ghost for about a minute or two. Maybe this wouldn't bother some people, but it just doesn't seem normal to me. What is most puzzling is the same thing does not happen when it is being used for a comp. monitor. No residual image at all when moving between web pages or other o.s. windows. Hard for me to figure this one out without talking to tech. support. It is a nice unit cosmetically and I do like having a TV and monitor all in one for space reasons. I wish I had a way to compare this unit to other combos for their TV and video quality. Oh, and one other thing. TWO DEAD PIXELS! Probably not enough to mess with trying to replace even if they would. 17 inches of flat panel display and all I can see is this one green pixel in the middle of the screen. The red one over near the edge is ignorable. I give it 3 stars I guess because I don't love it, but don't hate it either. One more thing. You will want external speakers for it. The internal speakers have about the same fidelity as the average laptop.

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Summary: I love this monitor.
Review: I use it as a TV and a PC monitor. The resolution is great and it has a very attractive design. Good job Hyundai!!

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Summary: Good price with high feature..
Review: It is very high feature that can use Computer monitor as well as TV..But price is unbelievable..sharpness and brigtness..
I would like to recomend this products to use Personal TV and computer user.

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Summary: Poor quality shows
Review: Like their cars, these guys make cheap, poor-reliability products. The flat-panel TV seems a great deal at first. [Update: many other manufacturers now have lower-cost models that are better quality.] But after a couple weeks, you realize it cuts lots of corners. The picture gets fuzzy and blocky more than other LCD TV's; this is especially perceptible when you watch DVDs. The contrast is also pretty bad. Above all, my friend, this is a low-quality monitor made to work for no more than a couple months. You are just not getting your money's worth from this. For the same money or just a little bit more you can get a namebrand, Sharp, Panasonic, Envision... and many times better quality and enjoyment. Amen.