RCA F20TF20 20" TruFlat Flat Screen TV
Good TV, terrible remote control
Overall, the TV is nice for the money. Lots of options and a good picture. The sound is pretty thin and tinny, but you can connect it up to your stereo system and pump it through some real speakers instead of the set's dinky ones. <br />I have three problems with this set:<br />1.) The much-touted Guide + GOLD system is a neat idea that was really horribly executed. It doesn't save your channel preferences, it arranges the channels by TOPIC rather than by number, making it annoying to try and find a particular channel's listing since you have to find it's category. Also, more often than not, the TV will not be able to offer any guide listings at all because of some error in downloading the listings from their source.<br />However, when it works, it's a neat system. <br />2.) The remote control is a piece of junk. It's RCA's standard universal remote, but it absolutely refuses to remember the codes for you VCR, DVD, and other devices. I have given up on trying to control anything other than the TV with this remote. It doesn't control the TV very well either. I have to press buttons several times to register a response on the set, and unless I am directly in front of the TV and a short distance away, the remote fails to control the TV at all. Fresh batteries have not helped the situation.<br />Sometimes, the remote will cease to function altogether. If you give it a hard shake, it may or may not begin to function again. <br />If you purchase another universal remote to replace the one that comes with the set, you lose a lot of functionality that is only accessible through the OEM remote; such as the GUIDE + controls.<br />3.) The third and final problem is that when you use the rear audio-out jacks and turn the TV's speakers off (a feature accessed through the TV's menu), the audio volume is set so low that you must turn up your stereo in order to listen at a reasonable volume. There is no option to increase the volume of the audio-out signal.<br />If you forget to turn the stereo's volume back down before you switch functions, such as to listen to the radio or a CD, it will blow your eardrums clean out of your skull.