LG M198WA - 19" Widescreen TV - Black

Ordered this as I wanted an LCD TV for the kitchen. Delivered within two days - great! Picture quality is excellent. NICAM Sound is good for a small TV - and there's also an audio socket to connect external speakers. If you want a good price LCD TV for kitchen/bedroom - THIS IS IDEAL!

I was recently in the market to upgrade from an old CRT monitor, and was intially going to buy a bog-standard LCD 4:3 screen for around £100. However, I was lucky enough to spot this LG monitor, which is pretty much a bargain in my book.

Featuring VGA, DVI, TV RGB, Aerial, and even a Component connection means this has everything short of a HDMI port (which I can't make use of anyway). Of course, the DVI and Component functionality means it is HD ready and widescreen, which was one of the deciding factors for me since it meant I could finally play my Xbox 360 games in glorious high-definition. Coming with a remote control is also a big bonus too if you want to replace a television with it as I did.

The only bad point I can think of with this monitor is that the in-built speakers produce low-quality and tinny sound, but this is to be expected with most flat-screen speakers. As long as you have seperate speakers for you PC and TV connections this isn't a factor anyway of course. The package even provides you with an audio cable which allows you to route sound from TV connections through your audio-in on your PC, effectively allowing you to route all sounds through your undoubtedly higher quality PC speakers.

All these features and no major negative factors combine to make this a pretty sweet deal. If you're looking for more than just a run-of-the-mill screen for your PC, this one is definitley worth paying the additional £60-70 over the basic LCD screens.

I bought this monitor because I needed a computer monitor with a larger resolution than I had with the ability to play my Wii on it.
I wasn't disappointed. I plugged in my computer via DVI-D and immidiately saw the improvement over my old monitor. 1440 by 900! Thank you very much. Also, the built-in TV tuner works great. It comes with a comprohensive set of rear connectors for anything you'd want to plug in; VGA (15-pin), DVI-D, Component, RCA, S-Video, SCART, and of course RF (tuner).
Also, the VESA 100 holes in the back panel make it mountable just about anywhere, with the right stand of course. I'm using the headphone port to plug the TV into my computer speakers which are far higher quality than the built-in 3 watt stereo.

Really impressed with the telly, great picture spot on as a monitor also. As others have mentioned, the speakers arn't much good, they are ok for TV soap and pc 'noises' but no good for music or movies. However, who ever expected to get great sound from tv speakers, i hooked mine straight into my amp, and now the sound is great. The output for sound is only a 3.5mm headphone jack so you will need adaptor for this.
The TV has a good range of inputs, but only one scart, so no freeview box and DVD player on scart, unless your DVD or Freeview box has Component and/or Composite outputs (this TV has both! on top of RGB and DVI). Or just run DVD's through your PC.
I Suppose really it would have been nice to buy Integrated DTV, but i know of people who have, and they seem much less reliable (freezing etc.) than my Set Top Box, plus the STB has a better channel guide and menu. On this subject the remote brings up an input menu you you then select the input you want, which you cannot re-name yourself, and a button to go straight to the inbuilt Analogue TV tuner, which as ATV goes out over the next few years will become obsolete. I would rather get rid of all the number buttons (i dont need to change the channel if im using a STB) and replace with 'quick' buttons straight to all the inputs.

All in all, this TV/Monitor is great value for money (we now have 2 in the house and would not hesitate to buy more when needed) There are the niggles i explained as best i can, but lets remember this is a 19" widescreen at a great price - which i have still not seen beaten anywhwere else and as both TV and Monitor it does a great job.
Well Impressed.

Hope this helps you choose!

I was intending to just get a new TV as my old TV/Video player was getting very outdated. Then I found this one that meant I can plug my computer into it too and I was thrilled. The picture is great on both TV and computer. Its wide screen which is great and looks really nice too.
Its well packed but not over packaged so less to throw away. The base swivels a long way around and is sturdy.

After reading countless reviews of people saying the sound is crap is was pleasantly surprised to find it actually very good.

All in all a very good quality, high end TV/monitor for a very good price.
since mine arrived yesterday my sisters boyfriend intends to get one too.

I was pleasantly surprised with the excellent quality and informative CD Rom which came with this package.Having read various reviews in Which I was a little wary of buying an LCD TV but this LG is excellent.I should also like to add my appreciation to Amazon for the speedy way the product was delivered.