Astar 26" LCD HDTV - Step up to the wild side with this HD Ready 26" Widescreen LCD TV. The rich vibrant colors, excellent contrast and widescreen display make this the perfect hoome theater companion, without taking up several feet of floor space. The LTV-2601 fits nicely on any wall, desk, or table.

Perfect for watching your favorite standard and high-definition TV programs in smaller rooms, the 26-inch Astar LTV-2601 HD-ready LCD TV can also double as a PC monitor. The LTV-2601 features sleekly modern lines and a table stand, and it also includes wall-mounting hardware. It features a built-in, 216-channel CATV/NTSC tuner and can receive high-definition (ATSC) broadcasts from an optional HD tuner. It also pumps out great sound from the two side-mounted speakers that provide 10 watts per channel (20 watts total power)

This set has a 16:9 aspect ratio that's great for high-definition television programming and widescreen movies, and is capable of displaying 480i, 480p, 720p, and 1080i video formats. It features an 1366 by 768-pixel resolution, 170-degreee viewing angle, fast 16 ms (millisecond) video response rate, 500 cd/m2 (candela per square meter) brightness rating, and 600:1 contrast ratio. (The higher the contrast ratio, the greater a TV's ability to display subtle color details and not get washed out by ambient room light.)

The 2D Y/C comb filter helps to improve detail, clean up image outlines, and eliminate extraneous colors. This set also performs 3:2 pulldown detection--a handy feature for watching progressive-scan movie programs in their native 24-frame format. To adapt 24 frames-per-second movies to 30 fps video, frames in the original movie must be duplicated; 3:2 pulldown digitally corrects this duplication by removing the redundant information to display a frame-accurate picture. Other features include a sleep timer, picture freeze, PC picture-in-picture, multiple-language on-screen display, V-Chip parental controls, closed captioning, MTS/SAP stereo output, and auto power shutdown. It offers the following video and audio connections:

• Composite AV (RCA) In: 2
• S-Video In: 1
• Component Video In (Y PB PR): 2
• DVI In: 1
• RF In: 1
• VGA PC input: 1
• PC Audio In: 1

What's in the Box
LCD TV, remote control (with batteries), table stand, wall mount kit, AC adapter, printed instruction manual