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It"s a common refrain: consumer electronics are too complicated and cumbersome for the average user. And even if you"re a "power user" who enjoys the latest and greatest tech gear, you"ve still got to deal with the inevitable rat"s nest of cables and wires that invades your living space once you connect two--let alone more--devices together. It"s those two problems--complexity and cable clutter--that the Humax LD2060 aims to eliminate. This 20-inch flat-panel LCD TV includes a built-in DirecTV satellite TV tuner, so subscribers can receive hundreds of channels of programming without the need for an external receiver.

From an aesthetic standpoint, the LD2060 looks similar to any other LCD flat-panel you"ll see--which is to say, pretty nice. The screen is ringed by a black border, while the stand and nonremoveable side-mounted stereo speakers are silver. Controls are split along the top and bottom edges: nine satellite control keys on the top side, five TV controls--volume, input, power, and settings menu--below. Of course, you"ll never have to touch those controls, thanks to the Humax"s unified remote. The well-designed clicker puts all the satellite and TV controls within reach. A slider on the remote toggles its controls between the built-in satellite receiver (such as scrolling through DirecTV"s onscreen programming guide) and the TV itself (picture and sound adjustments and so forth); it can also be programmed to control two other A/V devices, such as a DVD player or VCR.

Getting the Humax LD2060 up and running on DirecTV was about as easy and straightforward as we could hope. Because CNET"s New York office has an existing DirecTV subscription, we just popped the RF coaxial cable off our existing box and screwed it into the back of the Humax TV. After sliding the included access card into the slot on the side, a quick call to DirecTV customer service had us up and running in less than five minutes. (You"ll be charged the same for using the LD2060 as you would for adding a standard DirecTV box to your account--so if you"re replacing an existing box, it"s a wash.) All in all, the LD2060 delivers an experience that"s all but identical to a standard DirecTV receiver--you have access to the same onscreen guide and basic functionality that you"d get with a standard satellite receiver, as well as access to all of the same channels in your package--excluding any high-def ones, that is.

The Humax isn"t going to compete with larger and more expensive TVs in terms of picture quality, but it does offer a basic complement of picture controls, including four picture modes (dynamic, mild, standard, and movie) and five color-temperature presets (two warm and cool settings each, plus a baseline "normal"). We didn"t bother with a full calibration, opting instead to eyeball the basic picture-control settings (tint, contrast, color, sharpness, and brightness) on the Warm 2 preset. As to be expected with an LCD, black levels were lacking. We also noted a bit of red push, but edge enhancement wasn"t overly pumped up, and off-angle viewing was better than average for an LCD. In other words, picture quality was resoundingly fine on DirecTV programming and DVDs--the same that we"d expect from other non-HD LCD panels of this size and native resolution--640x480.

The LD2060 also offers a "="" rel="follow">vertical compression mode, so you can see the full resolution of anamorphic DVDs at their proper aspect ratio. What was annoying, however, was the lack of independent input memories: if you customize the settings for watching DVDs or video games, for instance, you"ll need to readjust them when you return to the DirecTV programming.

If you want to use the LD2060 to watch only satellite TV, just two wires need to be connected: the power cord and the satellite line. (Add a standard telephone wire to the equation if you want to take advantage of any of DirecTV"s pay-per-view offerings.) Thankfully, though, the Humax isn"t a one-trick pony: It has three other A/V inputs--one component and two composite--so you can connect as many as three other video sources. While that will certainly introduce more of the wire clutter that the integrated satellite receiver is designed to avoid, the flexibility to add, say, a DVD player, a VCR, and a game system will certainly be welcome for anyone building a mini-entertainment center. A single set of A/V outputs lets you record your DirecTV shows to a VCR or a DVD recorder, though anybody used to a TiVo or other DVR will lament the dearth of a built-in hard drive. Furthermore, if you buy the LD2060 and subsequently decide to dump DirecTV, the additional inputs guarantee that you"ll always have a usable flat-panel monitor--you can hook up a cable box or even a Dish Network receiver to any of those inputs. Interestingly, the component inputs accept 480p and 720p/1080i high-def sources. But given that they"re all scaled to the LD2060"s 640x480 native resolution--and the fact that it"s a small 20.1-inch screen to begin with--there"s no big advantage to using HD video sources. Likewise, you won"t find any DVI or VGA inputs on the LD2060, but the low-res screen wouldn"t be conducive to doubling as a PC monitor anyway.

While there"s a lot to like about the Humax LD2060, it"s worth remembering that it"s designed to appeal to a fairly small segment of the market: DirecTV viewers looking for a small, no-fuss, flat-panel television. At its original $700 price tag, the lack of wide-screen aspect ratio, high-definition display, PC monitor support, and a built-in DVR were all the more glaring.) By comparison, 20-inch LCD TVs from no-name and top-tier manufacturers are readily available for less than $400.) But Humax has since dropped the list price of the LD2060 to $600--with online pricing coming closer to $549. That makes this TV a much more palatable buy, and it"s a big reason we"re not grading it more harshly.

If you like the idea the of the LD2060 but want to hold out for an HD version, stay tuned: Humax is planning to release a 32-inch wide-screen LCD flat-panel HDTV with a built-in high-def DirecTV tuner in the fall, though pricing has yet to be set. In the meantime, if you"re a DirecTV viewer looking for a no-hassle second television--and you can find it at a discount--the Humax LD2060 is certainly worth your consideration.

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Usually when you’ve got a 32in TV going for just £390, you’re talking about some no-name model you can pick up from the shelves of your local supermarket. But today that paltry sum can bag you the LGB-32DST from Humax, a brand which, while hardly premium, is certainly generally considered to sit at a slightly higher level than the Bushes, Goodmans, Prolines and Fergusons of the AV world. So here’s hoping the 32DST turns out to be as big a bargain as it initially appears.

The 32DST’s connections are a touch disappointing in one sense, as they only include two HDMIs when we like to find three these days. The reality, though, is that the two HDMI situation is pretty much par for the course at the Humax 32DST’s price point. And you do at least get some pretty reasonable accompaniment in the form of the de rigueur component video port, a D-sub PC jack, and a digital audio output – among other things.

On a bigger TV this would be a serious crime. But we guess we can live with it on a 32in TV, where the extra finesse of 1080p/24 is harder to appreciate anyway. It’s also worth considering that had such a budget TV tried handling progressive signals and, especially, 24Hz feeds, it might actually have ended up making a royal mess of things. So perhaps the 32DST’s decision to top out at 1080i playback is merely the action of a TV prepared to accept its limitations.

It’s imperative that we point out here, too, that the 32DST is not a Full HD TV, boasting instead a native resolution of 1,366 x 768 pixels. This is only to be expected of such a cheap set, and obviously makes 1080p/24 compatibility less of an issue as there’s going to have to be image scaling to translate a 1080-line source to the TV’s 768 lines of pixels anyway.

Humax claims a contrast ratio of 1,000:1 for the 32DST – hardly one of the highest around. However, in a move typical of the LCD market, this ‘native’ figure can be boosted (to an unspecified level) by a dynamic backlight arrangement that adjusts the picture’s brightness in accordance with an assessment of the image content. As in, the darker the image content, the lower the backlight output, to improve black level response. You can adjust the backlight to any of three ‘manual’ levels too if you don’t fancy the auto setting – an important touch for reasons we’ll come to later.

The 32DST’s reasonably tidy onscreen menus have one or two surprising tricks up their sleeve given its price. You can, for instance, call up picture-in-picture functions, and adjust the way the set delivers skin tones. Plus there’s a multi-level noise reduction facility, and SRS TruSurround XT to deliver a pseudo surround sound effect using just the TV’s speakers.

Happily the 32DST has more success with its pictures. With HD sources, for instance, the picture is considerably sharper than might be expected given the set’s 1,366 x 768 resolution and lowly price tag. There’s precious little of the general softness and lack of detail that afflicts many cut-price rivals, and even better, there’s nowhere near as much LCD motion blur to contend with as we would have expected.

At this point I’d normally expect to have to bang on about how severely the budget Humax’s picture quality drops off with standard definition. But actually, while there’s certainly a small increase in motion blur, and obviously not as much fine detail in evidence, the picture is nothing like as noisy and indistinct as with some, nay many other (especially budget) LCD TVs we’ve seen.

I also like the way you can watch the 32DST from a really quite acute angle before the contrast and colour response start to drop off to any large extent – we still see some quite expensive TVs still struggle with this problem.

Also, if you use the ‘Auto’ backlight mode that on paper should give you the most effective contrast throughout a film or TV show, the screen sometimes adjusts its brightness so frenetically that the picture almost seems to be flickering.

Does Humax’s LGB-32DST set new standards of picture and sound prowess? Of course not. But does it nonetheless perform markedly better than you might expect of a 32in TV costing south of £400? Definitely.

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You know how at school there’s always that one slightly strange kid who doesn’t dress like anyone else and likes to do everything in his own unique way? Well, that kid has taken TV form in the extremely unusual shape of Humax’s LGB-22DYT.

As its name suggests, this is a 22in TV – itself a change of pace from the giants we tend to find dominating our test benches. But it’s also unlike any other small-screen LCD TV we’ve ever seen, for two reasons.

Yes, Humax has recognised that trying to fit speakers into a small LCD TV’s bodywork in any ‘normal’ way pretty much leads to sound quality that’s the crap side of rubbish. So the brand has taken the radical step of removing those speakers from the TV and incorporating them into the stand.

I have to say, though, that I’m not sure this idea works aesthetically. For while a similar idea on the 40in Humax LP40-TDR1 TV we tested recently looked OK, on a TV as small as this the speaker bar somehow looks too dominant, taking your eye away from the picture you’re supposed to be watching. It also looks a bit clumsy and dated, as if it’s escaped from some 1980s conceptual design exhibition.

Still, the LGB-22DYT is almost certainly going to find use as a second or third TV, not a main one. So it won’t have to go on show in your main living room where it might embarrass you when anyone pops round to visit.

Plus, of course, there’s always the possibility that your reward for taking onboard such an ‘unconventional’ design will be audio quality the likes of which has never before been heard from a small TV.

Anyway, going back to our initial discussion about just why the 22DYT stands out from the crowd, as well as its ‘speaker bar stand’, it’s also got an atypical native resolution of 1,680 x 1,050. This is clearly enough to let the TV earn its HD Ready wings, but not quite enough to make it a full HD set. Odd.

To be honest, I suspect the reason for the ‘inbetween’ resolution is the fact that the screen at the system’s heart was probably originally developed for PC rather than video use. Here’s hoping neither the resolution nor the suspected PC origins will lead to any problems with the TV’s picture quality.

The 22DYT has one or two interesting discussion points among its connections, too. First, there’s a disappointment: the provision of just a single HDMI socket. I guess a 22in TV is never exactly going to become the hub of any all-singing, all-dancing home cinema system. But it’s certainly possible that someone might want to simultaneously attach a PS3 or Xbox Elite games console and an upscaling DVD player even to a second-room TV.

Rather more pleasing is the provision of a D-Sub PC input, and everything you need to enjoy the UK’s digital terrestrial broadcasting service – including a Common Interface slot for adding a Top Up TV subscription card. Please note, though, that this is not one of Humax’s TVs with a built-in HDD for making Freeview recordings. For that functionality you’ll have to step up to the £380 LGB-22DRT.

Although you can find cheaper 22in TVs if you look around, the 22DYT is hardly expensive at just under £300. So it’s no great surprise to find it relatively low on features beyond those we’ve already mentioned. The only things of interest I could rustle up are SRS TruSurround XT audio processing to try and make that speaker bar reproduce some sense of a surround sound audio track; a handy radio alarm/snooze function; a clock function available on the front display; and a skin tone correction option.

To be honest, though, I’m actually rather glad there aren’t loads of features to get my head round, for the simple reason that the onscreen menus are a nightmare to read. Their text is way too small and this situation is compounded by the fact that the backdrop to the text is semi-opaque. Honestly, it’s hard to believe anyone at Humax has actually sat down and tried to use the TV at all in a normal room environment.

A lesser shortcoming but one still worth mentioning concerns the 22DYT’s brightness. The TV’s spec sheet claims an unusually low brightness output of just 300cd/m2 (versus more like 500cd/m2 for most LCD TVs), and this seems reflected in the way the picture struggles to make its presence felt in a bright room.

Turning now to the TV’s good points, its picture is impressively sharp for such a little chap. So much so, in fact, that I could appreciate the difference between standard and high definition much more clearly than I expected.

This is not meant to imply that the 22DYT’s standard definition is unusually soft or fuzzy. On the contrary, it’s actually very sharp and clean. I’m just saying that the TV has the ability to make HD look even better, despite the relative smallness of its screen!

The 22DYT is also respectable when it comes to black levels. Obviously there’s some degree of cloudiness over dark scenes such as a night-time helicopter ride over Liberty City in ”Grand Theft Auto IV”; I’ve yet to see a small LCD TV that hasn’t suffered with this LCD trait to some extent. But it’s by no means as distractingly bad as is common on screens smaller than 26in, and doesn’t leave you with a sense that great chunks of Liberty City’s impressive vistas are getting lost in the murk.

The last thing to cover is whether or not the 22DYT’s remarkably large set of speakers really make their size count. And the simple answer to that is yes, they do. The clarity, dynamic range and sheer power of the soundstage the 22DYT creates is startling, making it instantly, for my money, the finest sounding small TV I’ve ever heard. In fact, now I come to think of it the majority of big LCD TVs don’t sound this good either!

The Humax LGB-22DYT tries hard to please, and amid its almost eccentric approach there are a few things to admire. But the curious aspect ratio disrupts far too much of what you watch for comfort, the single HDMI is hardly enough even for second-room use, and the colour and brightness issues aren’t going to go away either.

We test every TV we review thoroughly over an extended period of time. We use industry standard tests to compare features properly. We’ll always tell you what we find. We never, ever, accept money to review a product.

You know how at school there’s always that one slightly strange kid who doesn’t dress like anyone else and likes to do everything in his own unique way? Well, that kid has taken TV form in the extremely unusual shape of Humax’s LGB-22DYT.

As its name suggests, this is a 22in TV – itself a change of pace from the giants we tend to find dominating our test benches. But it’s also unlike any other small-screen LCD TV we’ve ever seen, for two reasons.

Yes, Humax has recognised that trying to fit speakers into a small LCD TV’s bodywork in any ‘normal’ way pretty much leads to sound quality that’s the crap side of rubbish. So the brand has taken the radical step of removing those speakers from the TV and incorporating them into the stand.

I have to say, though, that I’m not sure this idea works aesthetically. For while a similar idea on the 40in Humax LP40-TDR1 TV we tested recently looked OK, on a TV as small as this the speaker bar somehow looks too dominant, taking your eye away from the picture you’re supposed to be watching. It also looks a bit clumsy and dated, as if it’s escaped from some 1980s conceptual design exhibition.

Still, the LGB-22DYT is almost certainly going to find use as a second or third TV, not a main one. So it won’t have to go on show in your main living room where it might embarrass you when anyone pops round to visit.

Plus, of course, there’s always the possibility that your reward for taking onboard such an ‘unconventional’ design will be audio quality the likes of which has never before been heard from a small TV.

Anyway, going back to our initial discussion about just why the 22DYT stands out from the crowd, as well as its ‘speaker bar stand’, it’s also got an atypical native resolution of 1,680 x 1,050. This is clearly enough to let the TV earn its HD Ready wings, but not quite enough to make it a full HD set. Odd.

To be honest, I suspect the reason for the ‘inbetween’ resolution is the fact that the screen at the system’s heart was probably originally developed for PC rather than video use. Here’s hoping neither the resolution nor the suspected PC origins will lead to any problems with the TV’s picture quality.

The 22DYT has one or two interesting discussion points among its connections, too. First, there’s a disappointment: the provision of just a single HDMI socket. I guess a 22in TV is never exactly going to become the hub of any all-singing, all-dancing home cinema system. But it’s certainly possible that someone might want to simultaneously attach a PS3 or Xbox Elite games console and an upscaling DVD player even to a second-room TV.

Rather more pleasing is the provision of a D-Sub PC input, and everything you need to enjoy the UK’s digital terrestrial broadcasting service – including a Common Interface slot for adding a Top Up TV subscription card. Please note, though, that this is not one of Humax’s TVs with a built-in HDD for making Freeview recordings. For that functionality you’ll have to step up to the £380 LGB-22DRT.

Although you can find cheaper 22in TVs if you look around, the 22DYT is hardly expensive at just under £300. So it’s no great surprise to find it relatively low on features beyond those we’ve already mentioned. The only things of interest I could rustle up are SRS TruSurround XT audio processing to try and make that speaker bar reproduce some sense of a surround sound audio track; a handy radio alarm/snooze function; a clock function available on the front display; and a skin tone correction option.

To be honest, though, I’m actually rather glad there aren’t loads of features to get my head round, for the simple reason that the onscreen menus are a nightmare to read. Their text is way too small and this situation is compounded by the fact that the backdrop to the text is semi-opaque. Honestly, it’s hard to believe anyone at Humax has actually sat down and tried to use the TV at all in a normal room environment.

A lesser shortcoming but one still worth mentioning concerns the 22DYT’s brightness. The TV’s spec sheet claims an unusually low brightness output of just 300cd/m2 (versus more like 500cd/m2 for most LCD TVs), and this seems reflected in the way the picture struggles to make its presence felt in a bright room.

Turning now to the TV’s good points, its picture is impressively sharp for such a little chap. So much so, in fact, that I could appreciate the difference between standard and high definition much more clearly than I expected.

This is not meant to imply that the 22DYT’s standard definition is unusually soft or fuzzy. On the contrary, it’s actually very sharp and clean. I’m just saying that the TV has the ability to make HD look even better, despite the relative smallness of its screen!

The 22DYT is also respectable when it comes to black levels. Obviously there’s some degree of cloudiness over dark scenes such as a night-time helicopter ride over Liberty City in ”Grand Theft Auto IV”; I’ve yet to see a small LCD TV that hasn’t suffered with this LCD trait to some extent. But it’s by no means as distractingly bad as is common on screens smaller than 26in, and doesn’t leave you with a sense that great chunks of Liberty City’s impressive vistas are getting lost in the murk.

The last thing to cover is whether or not the 22DYT’s remarkably large set of speakers really make their size count. And the simple answer to that is yes, they do. The clarity, dynamic range and sheer power of the soundstage the 22DYT creates is startling, making it instantly, for my money, the finest sounding small TV I’ve ever heard. In fact, now I come to think of it the majority of big LCD TVs don’t sound this good either!

The Humax LGB-22DYT tries hard to please, and amid its almost eccentric approach there are a few things to admire. But the curious aspect ratio disrupts far too much of what you watch for comfort, the single HDMI is hardly enough even for second-room use, and the colour and brightness issues aren’t going to go away either.

We test every TV we review thoroughly over an extended period of time. We use industry standard tests to compare features properly. We’ll always tell you what we find. We never, ever, accept money to review a product.