Friday, January 13, 2006
A Harbinger of Things to Come: Westinghouse's LVM-37W1 LCD TV
Posted by Felix Torres in "ARTICLE" @ 09:00 AM
Pictures! We've got Pictures
Figure 1: Simple Looks here, nothing fancy.
• The display comes in any color you want as long as you want silver.
• Some folks might consider the minimalist bezel bland.
• Westinghouse reportedly sells external snap-on bezel frames in wood textures if you’re wall-mounting it but I haven’t found them on their site.
Figure 2: Side view
• Inputs are side-mounted on a center hump to yield a pretty thin profile.
• The right side has a power switch, an input port cycling button, two volume buttons, and three buttons to control the OSD.
• The base doesn’t swivel but the padding underneath is smooth enough you can swing it around cleanly.
Figure 3: Rear view.
• The center hump has VESA standard 75mm and 100 mm attach-points; no problem finding compatible wall-mounts.
• The removable speakers are connected via external cables. At first I was less than thrilled; it seemed cheap. Upon further reflection, I realized the standard squeeze-clip speaker connectors let me plug my three-way external speakers instead. Or, the attached speakers can also be used as the center channel in an analog surround-sound configuration.
