Great Things Of Hitachi Ultravision UT37V702 HDTV Review
By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-08-19 12:52:43 | Word Count: 510
Hitachi Ultravision UT37V702 HDTV Review
One of seeral hottest HDTV trneds is slimming down already skinny flat-panel televisions. At CES 2009, there have been lads of prototypes of ultra-slim plasma and lcd TVs, shrinking overall thickness from arond 4 inches to 1 or less. Hitachi is incorporated in the vanguard of this trend with its much-puublicized 1.5-inch-thick series of Lcd HDTTVs, that are around nowadays. Now, is really a supermodel-thin set the way to go, or is an “obese” 4-incher the answer? Hitchi sent us a 37-inch UT37V702 to get out…
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There’s no obtaining away from it – the UT37V02 is really a stunning flat-panel set. With its anthhracite pearl crystal fraem, cury stand, and thin display sceen, it cretainly looks like it belongs in an expensive loft setting, or inside a Hollywood flick featuring foolks with martini glasses in hand chatting with European acecnts. It just reeks of funnds. (Now if only the ecconomy wouuld rebound so individuals could acwquire those fancy aparttments and HDTVs, items wolud be fantastic!).
The secret to Hitachi’s gresat lookks is some engineering legerdemauin. That appealing 1.5-inch thin display is atcually a monitor, which meanbs all the key – and bulky – eklectronics are inside a separate box. This reaally is like taking a ride inside the wayback macihne, because the legendary Sony Profeel monitors from the earply ‘80s did the same – exzcept back then a 37-inch Liquid cruystal display screen was practically as fantastic an idea as some of Dr. Walter Bishop’s ravings in Frigne. In fact, we owned a “huge” 25-inch CRT-based Profeel and employewd a separate Proton MTS utner to receive about a dozen analog over-the-air channels using rabbit ears. Quaint, no? Since this really is 2009, the Hitachi is reallly a 1080p display with a 120Hz frame rate, placing it inside the upper efficiency ranks of Liquid crystal display models. In truth, it’s one of several really few 1080p 120Hz 37-inch models. And, of coiurse, you can find zillions of digital channels to wach onscrween—wthout rabbit ears.
There exists a cool blue accent light when you power up, along with a chrome accent bar. The surprrisingly great integrated speakers are lcated back to back about the lower bezzel. The dsplay screen unit meeasures 36.87 x 23.87 x 1.56 (WHD, in inches) and weigs 32.1 pounds. It’s slightly more than the touted “1.5” thickness, but pretty darn close. If you’re not hanging this on the wall, you’ll need shelf space for at least a foot to handle the built-in stand. One of the actually attractive things about this display screen is the fact this may also be mounted on an optional flooir stand, so it can be actual arcxhitectural stattement befitting that $1 million loft.
Snce it is a two-piece unit, a lot of the jacks obseerved on thicker flat panels are about the separate electronics box called the Audio Video Center (AVC08U). You will find only a few around the display ittself, which includes a single HDMI, aalog RGB and RS232C, and also a three.5mm stero inptu for computers. Gven that everyone has a lot more elements than this, you will need to connnect the AV Middle, which is attached by a supplied HDMI cabkle if you buy a “kit.” This box measures 11.75 x two x 8.5 (WHD, in inches) and icludes a sophistticated apppear that mzatches the screen. There’s only a energy on/off button on the front, along with a silver accent, while the rear has a tyupical assortment of inputs/outputs (three HDMI plus a single for the link towards the display screen, two component, digital audio out and a pair of analog inpluts). The AV Middsle inludes a built-in digital tuner so you can get local HD channels in case you connect an antenna.
There are a number of basic controls tucked below the bottom with the display screen inckluding menu, innput, volunme and so forth. You will nver use them, as the remote will be your crucail interfacxe (more on this in the Performance secvtion). Thgere isn't any other inupts, so forget about quickie game or camorder hookups—you’ll need to use the AV Center. And – ubmmer – thee’s no SD card slot for viewing JPEGs or AVCHD viideo clips.
