Help! HDTV Advice Needed!

[YSSMAN]

Okay folks, I was flipping through the pages of my local newspaper and came uppon an advertisement for the Olevia 427V 27" HDTV. They are pricing it at about $570 here in Grand Rapids, about $600 in most places I had seen on the internet. Reviews are pretty limited on the sets overall, but from what I can see, Olevia sets get fairly high reviews overall.

Rough rundown of the specs:

- 27" LCD
- 16:9 Display
- 1600-1 contrast ratio
- HD-Ready
- 5 A/V inputs
- 2 component video imputs
- 1 s-video imput
- HDMI and VGA imputs
- 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i

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I guess I'm not totally sure. I have the money, but I've very cautious about spending it. For the most part it would become the family TV, or atleast in theory it would, and would be hooked up to the digital cable box as well as the XBOX 360.

...What do you folks think?

(Otherwise I'm still poking around for smaller HDTVs to go into my bedroom just for the XBOX 360 and myself...)

 

[wfooshee]

I don't know anything about the set, but 27" seems small for a family room set. I used to have a 27" 4:3 set (Sony Trinitron), and it was the smallest I would ever want to use. A 27" 16:9 will be SMALLER vertically, by about 3 inches, than a 27" 4:3 set (although it's about 5 inches wider). Depends on room size, obviously. If you want a 16:9 set the same height as you'd think of for a 27' 4:3, you'd need a 32- or 34-inch diagonal measurement.

 

[TB]

I agree with wfooshee, as that is what I just did. Watching "normal" TV is smaller on a 32" 16:9 than a 27" 4:3. HD and DVD, however are much better. I would have gone larger than 32", but I was limited by our entertainment center. I really don't think a 27" will cut it for the family TV. Personal in a bedroom, yes.