Westinghouse LED 32" HDTV LD-325 Series TV

I purchased the 32 inch Westinghouse LED about 3 weeks ago and the color is great. What I discovered is that while the package lists a standard viewing angle, the color washes out at about 100 degrees from frontal viewing. Flesh tones get much whiter the closer you move toward the edge of the viewing range. I plan to return the unit in favor of an LCD unit within the next few days.

This TV is so new that it was just introduced in June 2010, and so far just Costco and Amazon carry it. I researched LCD TV's to buy 2 for my kids. Looked everywhere, Best Buys, Sears, WalMart, etc. Read everything I could find. We went to Costco to see what they had Philips, Vizeo and Panasonic...and this new Westinghouse. The differences in pisture quality right there in front of us was obvious! The Westinghouse had blacker blacks, and a brighter picture overall. The colors were detailed and poped right off the screen! Why? It turns out that this Westinghouse is the first of a line of inexpensive LCD TV's, with what is called LED backlight lighting. We walked over to the next row of TV's where they were bigger, and at $2000.00 and up...more expensive! Several of the higher cost TV's were also LED back lit lit. "An LED backlight replaces the evenly-distributed fluorescent lights you're familiar with (CCFL) with an array of small, independent LED lights, which can vary in intensi... Read more