The purpose of this article is to take a look at the Hitachi 26LD200.
Getting a new TV for the home is a major purchase nowadays. Spending what could be a considerable amount of cash should make you think seriously about what is essentially a major domestic investment.
Technology changes so fast that you sometimes have to be careful that you don’t find yourself buying something that is possibly already obsolete by the time you take it home.
Digital television (DTT) is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals, in contrast to analogue signals used by analogue (traditional) TV. With DTT, viewers are limited to whatever channels the antenna picks up. Signal quality will also vary.
For the purposes of this article we want to take a look at purchasing a new Flat Screen Television and in this case the television in question is the Hitachi 26LD200.
The 26LD200 is a 26in LCD TV and currently these TV’s can be found for 550 pounds sterling or 1100 US dollars. The screen resolution is 1280 x 768 and with regards to being HD Ready the answer is no. The Hitachi has 2 (1 RGB) scarts and the type and number of Multimedia interfaces the 26LD200 uses is none at all. The type of Tuner for this TV is Analogue and the Hitachi is available from limited outlets only.
So given this information, what would be our view of the Hitachi 26LD200?
First up, we would look at the picture quality and our score here would be 8, and for the sound quality we would rate it at 8. With regards to the availability and number of relevant connections, our score would be 8. With regards to the overall level of features, our view would be 6 and with regards to ease of use and overall value for money our opinion and score would be, 8 and 10 respectively.
Taking everything into consideration our overall view of the package would be this set is amazing for the price and outperforms much more expensive competition with ease which means that we can recommend this as a good buy for almost everyone.
It is extremely unlikely given the variety and range of makes and models available that you will not be able to find something to match your tastes or budget. The choice, as they say, is completely down to you to decide whether to stay at the forefront of what are rapidly changing technologies and fashion or to remain part of the safer but perhaps better developed mainstream. No matter what rout you take we hope that after reading this article you should be more informed as to the correct choice with which to take.
With regards to the prices in this article we have tried in all cases to take an average across the industry from a number of well known web sites and so we ask you to bear this in mind and treat these prices as advisory only rather than absolutes.
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