MyView 24PX100 Review

It was last month when I tried to visit lazada.ph website, and among all the products I had browsed on the website, this TV caught my attention. 24 inches Full HD LED TV with USB media playback. Asking Price? P6,500. Below are the product's main specifications you need to know, for the rest of the specs sheet, visit MyView website.

SERIES	PIXSMART
Model	24PX100
Size	24" 580X377X43
Design	Fine Polished Blac
Panel Maker	BOE/IPS/Sharp
Resolution	1920x1080
Brightness	400 cd/m2
Contrast	3000:1
Viewing Angle	176 (H) X 176 (V)
Dot Pitch	0.1615, X 0.4845mm
Maximum colors	16.7M
Response time	6.5ms
Backlight life	>100000 hrs
Colour system	PAL/SECAM

In their website, there's in the list that states that the product runs on Android 2.3, Cortex A9 CPU, Mali 400 graphics... no no no. There's no single trace of Android in this product. I don't know why they're not removing that.

I bought this product from lazada.ph, Sunday Morning and it was delivered to our house the day after, as early as 8:30 am. A text from the delivery team made me woke up and immediately go outside and excited. It's Cash-on-Delivery by the way. It's Php 6,499 on lazada, whereas it' P6,999 on myview website. I also got a P200 voucher upon signing up to their newsletter, so it's just 6,299 for the final price (no delivery charge as it's priced more than 1k)... and the bonus isn't over, it comes with a free Mini HD camera.

And now let's do the unboxing.
The box comes with a very simple packaging. It comes with the main unit, TV remote, the base stand, wall bracket, warranty card, the product camera and also the mini camera fitted inside the package. We find it hard looking for the support connector of the main unit to the base stand. It took us more than 30 minutes looking for it, and then finally decided to use the wall mount instead. We didn't have the driller to attach it on our walls and I stopped for a minute and concentrate to look for that missing part. There were some comments in lazada that it doesn't have that part... but I'm not believing... I'm seeing ad pictures it has a stand. Luckily, after taking some time, I finally found it! It's just inside a hole in the styro support..gotcha!... We've finally set-it up. It finally took out the place of our 2-year old 19" Coby LCD TV.

The ports at the back of the television includes a standart AV connector, TV antenna, Component input YPbPr/YCbCr, earphone plug, PC audio in, VGA , HDMI and USB inputs.

The Experience.
Image quality is excellent. It's on the same level of picture quality of the branded TV's like Samsung, Sony etc. LED TVs. In their spec sheet, they have stated that the panel is from BOE/IPS/Sharp, so I'm thinking that the panel is from Sharp. IPS? maybe yes. The color doesn't invert when you look at the screen from an almost 180 degrees. Screen is not glossy, it's matte. The TV's frame is in glossy deep black making it attractive to the eyes, even if it's powered off. Here are some of the testings done based on the input that I've used:
1. USB Media Playback.
I've tried playing Iron Man 3 on 1080p full HD resolution. I am greatly amazed on the outputs and the color reproduction. On some forums, some were telling that the playback automatically stops after an hour of continous USB media playback, which I still didn't experience with the unit. We even watched Con Air also on 1080p the next day. Still haven't encountered it yet.

2. HDMI
Tried connecting my Fusion Bolt tablet with HDMI port. Good playback, but it isn't that clear as playing a movie directly from a USB drive, maybe because of the screen resolution adjustments. My tablet is in 1280 x 800 resolution where as the TV is in 1920 x 1080 resolution.
3. VGA connector.
Also tried to use it as an extended monitor for my Samsung RV415 laptop just using a spare VGA (d-sub) cable. I didn't expect that the result would be better than that of the HDMI connection through the tablet. No image noise will be noticeable. Very clear, that I haven't noticed that I took more than an hour browsing the internet and enjoying facebook on the big screen... Full HD PC, wahaha.
My laptop also has an HDMI connector, but I don't have a standard HDMI connector, that I may put into the test. (My tablet uses an HDMI to mini HDMI cable), so trashing out the theory in number 2, it's not with the resolution incompatibility, it's with the graphics performance of the input device.
4. AV Connection
Nice output still. Noticed a great improvement compared with my previous LCD TV. I'm feeling that the resolution is being upscaled.
5. Television Signal Reception
Below is an actual over-the-air TV signal reception of the TV. There's significantly no problem with the TV, you can get a paid-cable like subscription quality reception if you have a good TV antenna.

Sound Quality:
This is only the product's performance that I didn't like. What will you expect with a slim TV, off course slim speakers tightly fit inside. Small speakers doesn't produce the bass that you're looking for. Sound output is loud, just lacking of some bass. What I did is since it has a USB input (which theoretically produces power) and it has an earphone jack - I attached a USB powered PC speaker in to it... there you go, I now have the bass. wohooo!

Another Drawback:
TV's base stand is just too light to support the weight of the television. If you have a toddler or small children in the family that always play around, I'm not advising to put it in a divider, or on a TV rack. The TV will fall surely with moderate to strong movements of the TV rack / divider. 
The TV, base stand and the TV to base stand connector were all made of plastic (too light, not the high grade ones). 
-Base stand isn't swivel (can't be rotated); fixed.
Use the wall mount instead which is given for free in the package.

Warranty:
The unit comes with a 1-year warranty from the manufacturer - myView. A warranty card, which elegantly looks like a credit card was inside the packaging which you have to present in their nearest service center.
Looking forward to have this unit be still up and running even in the time that I have bought another larger TV to replace this one... after 2 years? (just like the dethroned Coby... almost 3 years). It would be a great hassle bringing the unit to Makati (nearest service center from Alabang)

Verdict:
It's still a very very very nice buy. For nearly  P6,500, it's just almost a price of a 24" LCD PC monitor with low 1366 x 760 resolution. Too far with what this unit could give you.


But how about the Mini HD Camera?... review will be in the next post