Hannspree Xv HT09 – 28″ LCD TV – widescreen – 1080p – HDTV
- Screen Size 28 (27.5 viewable)
- Aspect Ratio 16 – 10
- Resolution 1920 1200
- Response Time 3ms Grey-to-Grey
- Brightness 500 cd/m
Product Description
The Hannspree 28″ HT09 LCD TV featuring 1080p Full HD resolution is simply breathtaking. Providing superior image detail, picture quality, and video performance, you will never want to miss out on your favorite high-definition TV programming, live sporting events, movies on Blu-ray discs, or enjoy gaming. To meet the demanding challenges of today’s users, the HT09 enables connectivity with virtually all of your video sources including over-the-air HD signal, cable/s… More >>
Hannspree Xv HT09 – 28″ LCD TV – widescreen – 1080p – HDTV
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I was in the market for a new TV to replace my failing old 26″. After reading the 6 reviews for this set on amazon.com, I thought this was an ideal set. The price was reasonable and seemed a good deal for an HD TV. It was a little larger than my old one, yet would fit in my entertainment center. The size is the only good thing about it. This is my first HD set and I am not happy with it at all. I had checked out other sets in stores and watched HD on friend’s TVs and the quality of this set in my opinion is Sub Par. The picture quality is not any better than my old non HD TV, in fact I think my old one was better. Also the only way I can get a Wide Screen picture is to run it through a digital converter I had for my old analog set. Otherwise even with the aspect set in Zoom all I get is a picture with 3″ inch boarders on each side. The sound is OK but nothing great. The remote is very user “unfriendly” you cannot just enter a number and get your desired channel. You must enter a number plus – 1 otherwise you get nothing. I called Hannspree customer service and they were absolutely NO HELP. The woman I spoke to kept putting me on hold and finally after 45 minutes told me that was the way it was and had no answer as to why, but that she would inform the engineers of the renote issue.
In conclusion, I believe all the rewiews I read about how great this set is must have been written by Hannspree employees. I would send it back,if I could,but it would cost more than it is worth.
Rating: 2 / 5
I bought this unit mainly for my PC, occasionally watch TV. I thought it is a good idea. Turns out I was completely wrong. Here is the issue:
It does not support 1920×1200 under VGA mode, Using a regular VGA cable the maximum resolution is 1680×1040. To be on full resolution, you need to have DVI output on your PC and a DVI-HDMI convert cable(which costs $30 at tigerdirect). And even after that, the screen still far from sharp. I don’t know it was because the convert cable or maybe TV and PC monitor are natively different. But it’s just NOT sharp. e.g. on a regular PC monitor most words are completely black, but on this one, some words appear purplish, some appear bluish, no black at all.
As a regular TV this is a good unit, but if you plan to use it as a monitor just like I did, please don’t! Try find a real monitor, so called TV/monitor are always compromise.
I ended up exchanging it with a Hannspree iF-281D, and lives happily ever after.
Rating: 3 / 5
When you use this as a computer monitor and choose 1920×1200 resolution, as you should be able to do, some parts of the screen disappear under the edges. I have read this at other sites and not seen a solution – does anyone have one? I am using HDMI connections at both ends. So far I have had to reduce the resolution and now have black bands around the visible area.
Rating: 4 / 5
Very nice picture. QAM works fine. Does fine in computer monitor mode.
Gotchas:
Disabled channels reappear. I keep getting Hispanic and infomercial one enabled again that I have zero interest in.
Channels flip at times. I’ll be watching NBC and it goes to another NBC and channel switch stops working. I have to select a new channel to get control back. That might be Comcast.
The remote is evidently using proprietary codes. I wrote their support for code # to use with a third party one and they had no idea for this model but offered the older model ones that aren’t the same. The remote is awkward and lacks powers so I’d really like to swap it out.
It’d be a 1 or 2 if the picture wasn’t decent in all modes.
ADDENDUM:
I came back are lowered the stars to two. It it was a nice computer monitor that would be a one.
Rating: 2 / 5
MY WHOLE ISSUE WITH TV SHOPPING WAS THAT I NEEDED ONE THAT WOULD FIT MY ENTERTAINMENT CENTER (30-1/4″w). 26″ JUST SEEMED TOO SMALL. WHEN I FOUND THIS 28″ ON AMAZON I WAS RELUCTANT BECAUSE I PREFER THE BETTER KNOWN NAME BRANDS WHEN IT COMES TO TV’S. ANYHOW, AFTER READING THE REVIEWS I DECIDED TO GIVE IT A TRY AND WOW…I AM HAPPY I DID. GREAT QUALITY FOR THE PRICE!
IT EVEN SERVES AS A LARGE MONITOR FOR MY LAPTOP WHICH IS A HUGE BONUS!
THIS IS MY FIRST “HD” TV AND I AM VERY PLEASED. TO TOP IT ALL OFF…IT SHOWED UP IN ONLY A COUPLE OF DAYS SO THERE WAS HARDLY ANY WAITING AS MY OLD TV WAS BARELY HANGING IN THERE. AS ALWAYS … THANK YOU AMAZON … AND THANK YOU J&R!!!
Rating: 5 / 5