JVC's LT-17X475 offers a sleek, perfectly flat 17-inch liquid-crystal display and an ultraslim profile--just over 3 inches, perfect for wall mounting or desk positioning with the provided stand. Hook it up to your PC or your progressive-scan DVD player or a DTV receiver and enjoy the richness and vividness that standard interlaced broadcasts will never be able to muster. This is an EDTV monitor, which means it's a step closer to high-definition or HDTV than standard TVs. When viewing progressive-scan sources you'll get seamless, razor-sharp images with none of the flickering associated with interlaced images. The LT-17X475 offers a widescreen (16:9) aspect ratio, native 1,280 x 768-pixel resolution, exemplary 500:1 contrast ratio, high 450 cd/m2 brightness, and 176-degree viewing angles--among the broadest in the industry for LCD screens--so you can enjoy the set's image from nearly anywhere in the room.
LCD screens offer a number of benefits over CRT monitors and televisions, including general ease of use, freedom from eye strain (no screen flickering or radiation emissions), quiet operation (no high-pitch "flyback" noise, an issue with CRT TVs), accurate image geometry (no curvature distortion or susceptibility to magnetic interference from, say, speakers), long screen life (no risk of image burn-in), space savings, and light weight/easy positioning. They also tend to be cheaper and, to some eyes, slightly more natural looking than their plasma flat-panel counterparts, which usually "spec" higher (higher brightness, higher contrast ratio).
The LT-17X475's 3D Y/C comb filter removes blurred edges between colors and reducing dot crawl (tiny, moving dots of color along a sharp color separation in a vertical line, as in a depiction of a character's striped T-shirt).
The TV's handy side-panel connections consist of a 15-pin D-Sub PC input, an auto-sensing component-video input, a composite-video input, an S-video input, and an RF input (for older cable boxes, a VCR, or an antenna). A stereo analog audio (left/right RCA) output lets you integrate the set with an AV receiver, and a monaural RCA subwoofer output can feed a stand-alone powered subwoofer to flesh out the sound from the set's stereo speakers.
Advanced HyperSurround simulates surround sound from 2-channel programs. Other features include an NTSC tuner with PC PIP (for simultaneous viewing of the PC input and 1 TV channel), black-level expansion, XDS auto clock set and ID display, V-Chip and channel guard parental controls, and auto VNR (video noise reduction).
What's in the Box
TV, pedestal stand, remote control, remote batteries, a user's manual, and warranty information.
