Lexmark Lexmark Z845

Westinghouse touts its "SpineDesign," where the connectors are located on both sides of a wide, tall panel behind the screen. This location does make it easy to connect devices to the set, but the connectors are located near the top of the base (and the top of the screen), so you may be able to see your cables if you're viewing the set from an angle, especially if you use stiff cables. Westinghouse markets the set as having four high-definition connections, and that's true--but one of them will have to be a VGA connection from a PC. It has only one HDMI input and two sets of component inputs.

The set comes with a generic-looking remote control--a lightweight, silver device with several buttons that don't control anything on the television we tested. For example, the remote has a picture-in-picture button, but the set doesn't have that feature. It has buttons labeled with TV jargon such as "YPbPr1" and "YPbPr2" instead of easier-to-understand terms such as "Component 1" and "Component 2," and it has a separate input button. The TV's screen menus, which are attractive enough, also carry the YPbPr1 and YPbPr2 labels; you can customize the labels, but you only get eight characters, so you'll have to be happy with, say, "Compone1."

You'll find a pretty good number of color controls in those menus; you can adjust hue, saturation, sharpness, and backlight strength, and you can adjust color temperature in either broad terms (cool, neutral, or warm) or in finer adjustments for red, green, and blue.

Overall, the LTV-32w6 gives you a nice picture for a nice price. Just be sure to budget for a better remote control.