Product Reviews

Finlux's 37FLH760 is the first 1080p LCD TV we've reviewed. At £600 it costs roughly £300 less than most other 37in 1080p models. However, the shiny black surround looks cheap and the whole unit doesn't feel sturdy.

If you have a Blu-ray or HD-DVD player, you can watch HD movies at their native 24 frames per second on this TV. The difference is quite impressive, giving a more cinematic feel and creating more distinct, crisply defined images. Even if your 1080p source doesn't have this setting you won't be disappointed. Fine detail was accurately reproduced in even the darkest areas of images.

Unfortunately, colours were garish and oversaturated whichever source was connected to the TV. Red was a particular problem, giving skin tones a sunburnt look. Sadly, it's not possible to change the red, blue and green colours individually. The best we could

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do was to enable cinema mode and set the colour temperature to cool.

The 37FLH760 can receive analogue stations as well as Freeview digital channels. Image quality on the digital channels wasn't as sharp as on other TVs we've seen. The seven-day EPG looks unappealing and is clunky to use.

The highest resolution available when connected to a PC through VGA is 1,360x768. Despite adjusting the clock and phase we couldn't get a sharp picture, and movement across the pixels made still images shimmer. Using an HDMI-to-DVI cable to connect to a PC improved matters. We were able to connect at the TV's native resolution of 1,920x1,080 and the shimmering effect disappeared. However, picture quality was still poor, and text had a ragged appearance. Also, we lost the outside edges of the Windows desktop to overscan. Sadly, there is no setting in the sparse onscreen menu to adjust this.

Anti-aliasing is a particular problem for the 37FLH760. Straight edges appeared jagged and had a smeared appearance when the image was moving. The 37FLH760 struggled with our standard-definition interlaced video, too. Despite setting noise reduction to high, solid areas of colour looked particularly speckled.

If you have devices that can output 1080i or 1080p and want the extra fine detail that 1080p provides, the Finlux will give it to you. However, with oversaturated colours and a poor performance in all other areas, the 37FLH760 is not a good buy.