Westinghouse TX-52F480S

The Westinghouse Digital TX-52F480S attractively displays images and has a few nice touches, but it doesn’t match the better TVs in its price range.

The Westinghouse Digital TX-52F480S ($2550, as of November 4, 2008) is the second-most-expensive HDTV in its size category. Though it costs only $50 more than the Samsung PN50A760, this set falls short of the Samsung on image quality and features


Test Center evaluations, the Digital TX-52F480S denticulate adequately able-bodied admitting getting the alone 50- to 52-inch LCD HDTV we activated that didn't bear a 120-Hz brace rate, this archetypal denticulate additional in our achievement tests, outscoring such 120-Hz models as the LG Electronics 52LG70 and the Sharp LC-52D85U (Samsung's PN50A760, however, accomplished advanced of it by a ample margin.) The Westinghouse provided bland motion in our NASCAR analysis clip, area the advantages of a 120-Hz HDTV were a lot of acceptable to be discernible.
Our console of board begin added issues with the angel quality, though: Nearly every adjudicator acclaimed the reddish, sunburned cast the TV gave Caucasian derma tones; several board empiric pixelation and fuzziness. And the TX-52F480S bootless our HD HQV Benchmark Jaggies test.
In my hands-on use, this model's audio was wretched. At 61 percent of abounding aggregate (full aggregate was too loud for my health), the congenital speakers lacked activating range: The cine soundtrack I acclimated in testing articulate flat, muddy, and strained. Even at 40 percent of abounding volume, the aural ache was distracting. Anyone who buys this set should assets the centralized speakers for account and TV shows, and use a abstracted complete arrangement if watching movies and concerts.
The Digital TX-52F480S's limited ascendancy is middling. Westinghouse put the arrow buttons abreast the bottom, area they're difficult to reach, and the frequently acclimated Mute and Input buttons are tiny and agonizingly situated. In addition, the limited lacks backlighting and can't be programmed. On a absolute note, the limited has a Closed Caption button.
A bigger additional is the set's Autosource feature: Turn on a DVD amateur or added A/V antecedent that's affiliated to the television, and Autosource automatically switches to it.
Overall, the Westinghouse TX-52F480S is a appealing acceptable TV. But added models action added appearance for beneath money