This discount HDTV has the worst sound I've even heard in a TV set but you can easily fix that problem with a 2.1 ( powered subwoofer plus 2 powered speakers) computer speaker system. Plug that into the headphone output. I picked a 2.1 system on Amazon for under $25 and now I'm quite happy with the sound.

So far as the picture quality goes, it's ok for a discount HDTV. Over the Air HDTV signals, DVDs and my PS2 (when using the S-Video input!) look excellent. It does take more fiddling with the brightness and color controls than I'd like.

There's a quirk that might be just be a defect in my set. Sometimes, it loses the ability to receive HDTV signals. Powering off and on fixes that. It doesn't happen very often, maybe once a week.

I gave it four stars becuase of the value at the price I paid. A local supermarket was selling this for $200. At the current Amazon price of around $300 I'd only rate it 3 stars.


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I purchased a Norcent PT4240hd for around $1700 in March of 2006.
I was fairly happy with this TV until it suddenly quit working after only 15 months of use. It will power on but the screen is dead.
Norcent only warrants their TV's for one year. Not a good buy when you have such a short warranty.

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I bought a Norcent LT2722 in November of 2006. A few months ago it started turning itself off spontaneously after an hour or two of operation. Now the times have considerably shortened until it sometimes won't stay on at all. Others have reported the same problem on forums. I first tried to get a local repair shop to look at it, but no one has parts or schematics. I e-mailed Norcent support on September 26th and followed up on October 2nd. No reply. I've also had no reply to other inquiries in the past year or so. This problem may be corrected on the newer models, but I'd try contacting their support before buying anything.

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It is true, you really do get what you pay for when you buy a Norcent product. How many DVD players have I thrown away and now the TV is DEAD.

The price was pretty good on this item and overall picture was average. Some issues with smearing but I did not concern myself much with them because this is the bedroom TV. Sure the contrast ratio was around 600:1 and speed 16ms but I did not mind too much and was willing to overlook them.

However, when it starts acting oddly just after the warranty expires my initial concerns about price verses quality come to the forefront. There was a couple times the unit would not turn on. The light was on but no one was home. It was not until we unplugged it and let it set for awhile did we manage to get it fire up again.

Yesterday...nothing.

The power light does not come on at all in standby mode.

After just under two years a complete failure?

Disposable LCD TV anyone?

The thoughts of shipping this item back to the manufacturer does not sit well with me in the slightest. It would be around $100 shipping on top of the repair.

At the moment I am looking for the PSU board (715T1180-3) in the hopes that I can just swap out the part myself and get it running again. No need to spend hundreds in labour for around a dozen removed screws and a board swap.

Another thing before I fade away.

The Norcent Site is flagged by Google as having malicious code. Very odd indeed. I figured I would contact them for the part in question and try and save myself a tonne of money. My AVAST went nuts and with a little searching discovered the Google message about exploits running on this site.

Yes Virginia, you really do get what you pay for.


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I have heard a lot of negative things about a similar model, the 27PT9015D/37B specifically, and the reliability of the television and the power simply cutting off after a short period of time. I have had my TV for a total of 8 months and had no problem so far. This SDTV has a beautiful picture on the digital tuner, and a pretty good picture on the normal tuner as well. My favorite part of the tv is the digital sound output that can be used for the digital tuner. the sound quality is incredible when used with a high quality reciever, i can get surround sound on most programming. The speakers on the side of the tv are so-so but i would recommend sending the sound out to a nice surround system, the bass started getting distorted on mine. There are three component inputs on the unit and one composite input. This SDTV can easily be confused for HDTV when using the digital tuner- the video quality is as good as DVD. In fact i think the quality is better on the digital tuner than it is coming from the inputs. I love this TV, if you can find a new one i highly recommend it. I bought the display model at walmart for 200 dollars.

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Worked fine for a while then 2 months out of warranty it went haywire with green lines like other people have mentioned. It is unwatchable. I just brought it to the dump today. Do yourself a favor. Buy a name brand.

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