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Decent, not the best. 3.5 stars
This Avera 40AER10 40-Inch LED TV, it's pretty good, but it's not the best
Let's weigh the pros and cons
PROS
1. LED
2. energy efficient - uses about $15 and half dollars of electricity a year if used at an average of 5 hours a day
3. has 3 HDMI ports. My 32 inch vizio only had 2 and I had to change my WiiU to component since my X1 box from comcast is HDMI Out only.
4. has one Component input and one Red/white/Yellow RCA input
5. has a USB and co-ax Input
6. easy to set up
CONS
1. it looks really grainy close up when watching broadcast and that's while using HMDI and an HD Channel. my LCD 32 inch vizio tv didn't look that grainy close up. However, my WiiU, blu-ray player don't have that grainy-ness and it's not as noticable watching the tv from afar.
2. Only one set of Red and White Audio Jacks. So you can't use both RCA and Component. You have to use one or the other unless you want to watch one with no sound.
3. No captions on component. I have a philips hard disk drive/DVD recorder. There's no options to turn on the closed captioning
overall, considering I've never heard of Avera before, I wouldn't say it's terrible but in my opinion, I'd rather get one from a brand i'm familiar with
October 2015 · Electronics