The Sony Trinitron and the Sanyo TV in our house failed on us already. Both TVs has their picture tubes broken. Since watching TV is part of my everyday life, I’ll need to purchase a new television.
Since LCD TVs are very popular these days, I felt that buying another CRT TV is just a waste of money. So I decided to get LCD TV for myself.
1st thing I thought of is the size of the TV… I went for 32″ (not too small and not too big).
2nd thing is the brand.. the most popular one is Sony… then one time, I saw the LG scarlet on one of the malls, I was like… wow this looks soooo nice!! Then I went to search for review for the product and was sad to see bad reviews… I searched for 32″ LCD TVs with good reviews, that’s where I decided to get the Samsung 🙂
3rd thing is where to buy…. I went to Anson’s, Abenson’s, Western, Automatic Center, Theaterworks, etc.. The price apparently is Php 59,900.00 except for Theaterworks which has the price of Php 51,000.00. I initially thought that Theaterworks is closing so they are selling the TVs at that price. I was about to get it already today. When I went to another shop, I learned that Theaterworks is not recognized by Samsung (I didn’t bother checking anymore). So just in case I need to repair my TV, Samsung won’t recognize and repair it. According to my source, theaterworks got those TVs directly from Hongkong (grey market). So it’s not safe for people to buy from them. I was worried and informed Theaterworks that I’m not getting the unit from them anymore and told them I got a better deal. I decided to buy the TV from a well-known appliances shop.
I was really amazed on how big the TV is… I was so used to watching 21″ TVs that I felt that the 32″ TV is too big for me hehehe 😛
I also bought a Home Theater (Samsung HT-Z210) for Php 5,000.00
Here’s my current setup:
Setting up the TV was a pain .. literally… it took me 10 hours just to finish setting it up. The shop advised me to just ask a samsung personnel to come over at my house to do it as ALL their customers does that… I just can’t wait anymore so I decided to just go through the manual and the samsung website just to get information on how to set it up correctly.
So here are what I learned so you won’t commit the same mistakes I did:
How to perform a factory reset
- With the TV on, press the Exit button for 10 seconds
- Factory Reset screen warning message will come up.
- If you want to continue reset (you will lose all changed settings), click OK. Otherwise, click cancel.
- After the TV completes the factory reset, it will automatically power itself off.
- The next time you open your TV, the plug and play screen will come up.
Automatic tuning to search for available channels (just remember to put America as your region – DON’T put Asia, it will not work!!!)
After I finish tuning the TV, I organized all my channels so it will be easy for me to change channels, so here’s my channel lineup:
0 – Zoe (5)
1 – NBN 4 (6)
2 – Abs-Cbn (8)
3 – ABC 5 (10)
4 – Sky Sked (11)
5 – Gma 7 (12)
6 – Shop TV (13)
7 – crime/suspense (14)
8 – IBC 13 (15)
9 – ETC (16)
10 – Studio 23 (17)
11 – Net 25 (18)
12 – 2nd Ave (19)
13 – Gem TV (20)
14 – UNTV (21)
15 – INC (22)
16 – Myx (23)
17 – Qtv (24)
18 – Platinum Preview (25)
19 – Teleradyo (26)
20 – ANC (27)
21 – CNN (28)
22 – BBC World (29)
23 – Bloomberg (30)
24 – ESPN (31)
25 – Star Sports (32)
26 – My Sky (33)
27 – Balls (34)
28 – AXN Beyond (35)
29 – National Geographic (41)
30 – Knowledge Channel (42)
31 – Cartoon Network (43)
32 – Hero TV (44)
33 – Nickelodeon (45)
34 – Animax (46)
35 – Disney Channel (47)
36 – Star World (48)
37 – AXN (49)
38 – Fox Crime (50)
39 – Maxx (51)
40 – Lifestyle Network (52)
41 – Velvet (53)
42 – HBO (54)
43 – Star Movies (55)
44 – Cinema One (56)
45 – MTV (57)
46 – Asian Food Channel (58)
47 – TCT Network (59)
48 – EWTN (60)
49 – Da-Ai (61)
50 – CEC (62)
51 – GxTV (63)
52 – Cube TV (67)
53 – C-Span Worldnet (71)
54 – Deutsche Welle (72)
55 – TV Espanol (73)
56 – TV5 France (74)
57 – KBS (75)
58 – Makisig (76)
59 – Saudi 1 (77)
60 – NHK (78)
61 – Channel News Asia (79)
62 – Makisig (82)
63 – ACQ-KBN 39 (95)
64 – 3 ABN 45 (96)
65 – Living Asia (99)
Overall, I’m pleased but I can’t seem to make good use of the features of this amazing TV as our cable is still analog and I don’t have a PS3 hehehe 😛
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