Samsung LE19R88BDX Reviews: R8 Series, 19" Screen LCD HD Ready TV

+ Looks the part.
Good viewing angle vertically.

- Programme guide does not let you read more words than fit on the screen!
Response to channel change requests is slow.
Digital tuner is below par.
Limited vertical tilt.

+ design, features, image can be good at time

- sound

+ Nice compact size. Easy to set up.

- Sound quality not so good.

+ Excellent with PS3

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- Didnt work. Buttons on the tv are touch screen and so take AGES to respond.

+ it is streamline and very easy to install

- none

+ all round good product

- none

+ Awesome picture, superb design

- The sound sometimes has an echo and the picture sometimes freezes

+ Value for money

- None

+ Its perfect and looks really nice.

- No bad points

+ Nice design, clear picture

- Touch buttond didn't work - had to have TV replaced

+ NEAT WELL-PROPORTIONED GOOD FOR SMALL BEDROOM & FOR GAMES

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+ Easy to use

- Sound quality not quite 100%

+ good looking, picture & sound quality ok, easy to set up and use

- led light won't stay switched off despit there being a setting which is supposed to do this, so we can't leave it on standby. Long delay between switching on and picture coming on.

+ Value for money OK 8/10,

- HD quality is not that good , picture is grainy through the HDMI there is lacking in depth, Otherwise not a bad bit of kit, Phillips lcd pfl series wipes the floor with picture through HDMI Watching a blu ray disc

+ Ease of use scores high

- Found it tricky setting up the universal control

+ slick design and ease of use.

- No 'off' switch so it has to be kept on standby all the time unless it is switched off at the plug.

+ VERY NICE LCD OVERALL

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+ Excellent picture & sound quality for a 19``TV

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+ Good Value form money and looks great too!

- If you wanting to mount on the wall make sure you buy a bracket with an arm they are a few quid more but so much woth it!

+ excellent for use with xbox360

- none

+ Design, look, picture quality

- Sound very porr

+ Looks good, very easy to set

- picture quality isn't the best

+ Picture quality and appearance of the unit are excellent

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- has to be left on stand by or unpluged

+ very stylish

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+ nice size model good features good quality and sound overall

- none to mention

+ Stylish to look at . Good picture

- Owners manual not vvery good for describing how to do simple things ie. switching to freeserve or satelite.
How to improve picture quality when watching video recordings

+ ease of setting up,on screen information through all of the seperate functions is simple to follow,stylish and up to date design.

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+ picture, price, size, no funny noises or other nasty surprises (like dead/stuck pixels). This set was just what I expected and performs very well.

- no off switch on set (no big deal really)
blue LED light under Samsung logo is just a gimmick and could be annoying for some (not for me)

+ Design; features; image quality at a distance

- Sound a little underpowered; vague image quality close-up

+ Most things. A really good small TV - it replaced a 15" LCD one and everything about it is much much better. Digital tuner copes well with deteriorating signal

- Minor but delay responding to remote

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- The only bad thing is you can't turn it off, it is always on stand by.

+ Neat and Tidy TV, easy to set up.

- None

+ Excellent set up. Goos picture.

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+ EXCELLENT DESIGN AND PICTURE QUALITY SECOND TO NONE.

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- Slow Channel Change

+ Excellent pic, great quality, very easy user friendly set up, works well as PC mmonitor, fits in our little house very nicely and discreetly

- Nothing

+ very nice looking

- cant use the digital tuner because we have sky which overrides it and means we have to change sky channels downstairs to watch this in the bedroom

+ Excellent allround quality for the pice.

- None. Sound could be better, but still excellent.

+ Bought this tv for my parents as we have 32" Samsung and love it so recommended they get the 21" for the bedroom. So far so good, they wanted something small, good quality with easy to use controls and it does everything they want - and more!

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+ Great looking tv with a quality picture and excellent sound.

- On screen display lacks program title / information.

+ Case looks nice

- Changing channel is very slow indeed by comparison with other cheaper makes, so 'flicking' through the channels to see whats on is pointless and very frustrating. If the program banner came up quickly without an image that would be OK, as it does with other makes, but with this model both the text and image come up together making it very slow to use.

+ Excellent picture,smart looking and easy to use

- Sound quality a bit thin and tinny

+ stylish, slim line doubles up as a pc monitor adds a new dimension to the bedroom and easy to install

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- the time gap between chanel changed toooooo long

+ For the cost a surprisingly good picture, excellent picture. The best I've seen in this price bracket

- Sound a bit disappointing, but don't let this put you off. I don't think you'll beat the overall value.

+ top quality picture for gameing, all round very good buy

- none so far

+ Excellent picture quality and good design, blue light can be turned off

- None found so far

+ Very stylish TV. Picture is very sharp, and there's no shortage of connections at the back

- There's a seemingly pointless piece of clear plastic at the bottom of the screen. Maybe a design point but it gets in the way of the sleek black

+ the look of the tv and the picture

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+ Looks good, good picture and sound

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+ Good design and excellent picture

- Stays on standby.

+ Very Good picture quality

- Sound is not as good as I would like. Switching on and off and movement through teh chanells can be tardy,

+ Brilliant picture and a good size.

- NONE

+ The best of the bunch at this price. Very satisfied with my purchase.

- Changing channel is a little slow.

+ Very smart appearance and good design with easy-to-use remote makes this a very good product. Samsung is noted for dependability and, I'm sure, this television will give me good service for years to come.

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- SLOW CHANNEL CHANGING

+ Great set at good price

- Poor quality instruction manual

+ nice small tv

- sound acceptable

+ The product was top qualoty and Ive had loads of compliments from friends and family. It is well designed and contemporary.

- I couldn't understand how to move the stand into the correct position when the TV arrived as there were no instructions for that part.

+ Good looking, nice picture quality

- its pretty quiet, not that the sound quality is bad

+ A great design with built in wall mountable bracket. Great picture quality and easy to use freeview guide.

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+ design very good, quality&well built.

- sound very poor have to have it nearly full to listen ,all right for bedrooms.
programing to complicated.

+ Excellent build quality,design,features & value for money

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+ Looks good. has built in Digital TV.

- None really - it is a cracking TV.

+ Stylish design, v.good picture quality and sound, v.pleased with the overall package

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+ excellent picture quality, unrivaled quality using hdmi cable, for those gamers out there. portable, lightweight, best looking tv you can buy!

- slight delay whilst chanel hopping, only fault i could find.

+ Reception is superb....no pixelation at all.

- none

+ Easy to set up and offers range of controls for different uses

- surface controls on the right edge can be touched too easily when adjusting the position of the screen

+ Easy to use, very good quality.

- The digital tv doesn't pick up many channels, but that may well be the area I live in rather than the quality of the freeview inside the TV.

+ Everything

- Sometimes when watching sport sportsman appear fuzzy.

+ Neat looks.

- Slow power on and channel change. Remote control operation confusing.

+ Very good telly!

- None to date

+ Modern Stylish design and great improvement over my old Sony CRT

- Sound takes some getting use to

+ easy to use and looks good

- none I have found

+ Stylish, good picture quality.

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+ easy 2 install

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+ Nice design and controls. Picture very good

- Sound good be a bit better

+ Cool, sleak design. Easy to use and set up.

- Slightly delayed reaction from the remote control.

+ Clear picture with excellent definition and contrast

- I need a booster on the aerial to enable me to receive some programmes, eg. Channel 4

+ Excellent design, easy menusand so many features!!

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+ Price

- Picture adjustments a bit complicated

+ Design

- sound

+ A quality product tha is correctly descibed on the web site

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+ Very good picture on a neat looking television.

- Not sure about the sound when there is minor background noise distraction.

+ Clear picture, great for watching TV or playing games. Easy to set up with good choices of picture modes, aspects and equalisers. I use headphones on mine and the sound is better using headphones.

- The sound is not great without headphones but for the price thats ok.

+ Good clean picture with good colour control, easy to set up and adjust

- none so far

+ Good picture, quite good sound, fairly good as a P.C. monitor. Very handy in a bedroom situation as a T.V. & montitor in one unit, saves space. Some reports complain about the front lights, but as they can be switched off, this is not a problem. Very pleased with my purchase.

- No off switch, no front A.V. connections.

+ Pleasing shape not too wide not all frame
The touch buttons are brilliant , its easy to set up

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+ Good menu fnction and easy to use. Installation is plu and play

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+ Good picture easy controls aesthetically pleasing, not intrusive in the room

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+ looks good, fits nicely under my kitchen work top. good picture and sound for a smaller tv

- channel change is slow

+ good all round tv

- on off switch? or only standby

+ Stylish looks , good small size.

- I didn't think much to the picture, it made too much backround noise for my liking.Didn't pick up enough Freeview channels either.

+ Nice looking, easy to use and clear picture

- The sound is a bit tinny and it is always on stand-by - can't completely switch it off unless it is unplugged

+ goog quality picture
nice stylish design

- when switching channels it takes some time to change over

+ Stylish, Sleek Design.

- No power off button.

+ Looks and picture quality

- Non as yet

+ excellent quality

- remote is a bit complicated and confusing at first, and quite big! Struggled to work out how to access the digital channels, easy once you know how