We bough this tv 1 year ago. it broke down last week we had two weeks on the warrenty so i called them and what a joke. they ask me to fax the reciept which i did they informed me that they will let me know in two days where to send the unit a week later no e-mail. called them with an avergae waiting time 45-60 minute, Been transfered 3-4 times to tell me that they have not got the fax and have to fax it again. Now it has been 18 days waiting for the e-mail nothing yet(i hope american express will do the replacemnet for me soon)Olevia they have the most deplorable customer service. thankfully this one broke within the warranty period of the first year (which should tell you something right there).

It is such a headache getting any warranty service from Olevia that it is almost worth buying a new set from someone else (go to COSTCO).or buy extended warrenty

37″ for less than $600…I got this set in February of 2007. I have used it as my bedroom set. The picture is amazing with my TWC HD Cable box and with my upconverting dvd.

There are two issues that one should be aware of. First – limited jacks and lack of tuner, but you knew that.

Second issue: when the tv is off, superbright blue light comes on. If you use this in the bedroom it can be very annoying at night. The light is very very bright at night. I ended up taking a piece of dark scotch tape and covering the light – now it is fine.

Other than the annoying blue light. the picture is excellent and I recommend this as super value.

I saw in a local Wal-Mart ad that they were featuring a 32″ TV of another brand for $550. In the aisle in front of the electronics department was this television for $500. A larger screen for $50 less? How could I not? When the cashier was ringing me up, he asked if I wanted to buy the extended warranty on it. I believe this is the first time I’ve ever bought the extended warranty on it and, at the moment, I’m relieved that I did.

I have now had the TV for one year. About six weeks ago, my TV turned off on its own…I turned it back on. About 30 minutes later, it did the same thing…turned it back on. Ever since, it does the same thing. Occasionally it will turn off and turn back on about 5 seconds later only to show a dropped cable signal.

I contacted Olevia’s support line through their website and was informed that I should try to take certain steps to ensure that there was not a problem with the power supply. The representative then told me that otherwise it would be a problem with the mother board and that Olevia was now bankrupt and could not honor the manufacturer’s warranty as they had now been bought out and the warranty was voided. I then informed the rep that I bought the extended warranty through Wal-Mart and he told me that I would have to wait until the manufacturer’s warranty (….that was now voided?) ran out to try to get it repaired through Wal-Mart.

I am going through the steps to do so. If you find a television through this company and you just can’t pass up the price, BUY THE EXTENDED WARRANTY!!!!

Only thing would have been better if all the assorted accesory jacks had not all been on the back of the set. Some on side or bottom would be a big improvement. Mainly because I have it mounted on the wall. No problem if mounted on the stand.

We installed our TV last night and overall we are very happy with our purchase. We took advantage of the sale at Target and after applying for their credit card, the price was way too attractive.

I haven’t adjusted any settings (even the ones recommended in quick reference manual) yet. Will do those things as time permits and will update this review if I come across something significant.

I connected an existing cheap rabbit ears antenna to the TV and it scanned and found numerous SD and HD channels. HD off the air reception is just wonderful.

This TV has only one antenna input. We have cable (no HD) coming out from co-axial cable and this rabbit ears antenna that also connects to the antenna via co-axial. Fortunately, I had a co-axial cable splitter (Y) and it worked perfectly. I connected cable output and antenna output to each of the inputs of Y splitter and connected the output of Y to TV. When I set the TV to the channel where cable is coming, TV automatically switches to cable channels and then I use cable remote to change the cable channels.

Standard definition programs:
SD, on the other hand, was worse than our 10-year old 27″ CRT TV on some channels. What is interesting is, the advertisements looked very sharp, bright, and colorful. Programs themselves were mediocre. It is possible that the channels we tried either weren’t recorded with best quality or not transmitted at best quality. I have to see how I can improve the quality of SD programs. We really don’t want to subscribe to HD cable.

HD Off-the-air programs:
Way more than satisfactory to my eyes. If you go to a store and compared the screen of 237H to some other brand/model, you may find this inferior. Other brands “may be” really good or may be they were just setup that way on display. But, you will be very happy that you saved hundreds of $ since picture quality seems wonderful at home. (We also have a 61″ Samsung HD DLP TV in the living room. So, I do know what to expect from a HD TV.)

Panorama mode aspect:
Panorama mode is disappointing on 237H. (Panorama mode streatches 4:3 picture to 16:9 in such a way that people and things in the middle of the picture don’t look fat and stretched. The way they do it is by keeping the picture in the middle intact and streching progressively on the left and right sides of the picture.) Panorama mode on our main TV (DLP) is really smooth and we use it a lot, but on 237H it is very bad. I am not sure if we will ever use that aspect mode. The problem in 237H is that it looks like we are watching the TV through a fish bowl.

Other:
I have read some people complain that channel switching is slow. I haven’t noticed anything like that. It worked fine for me.

My TV has 2 HDMI inputs – I have read elsewhere that some people got only one HDMI input.

The TV came with one HDMI cable, one power cable, quick reference poster, remote control + batteries, and a CD ROM. Manual is only in CD ROM – no book is supplied. You will be able to find the manual of 237V (almost identical TV) on the Internet.

When the TV is powered off, a bright blue LED light comes on and it goes off when the TV is powered on. It is way too bright in the bed room; I have to cover it up with some tape. In a living room, it may act like a night light.

It was very easy to setup – took me less than one hour to take down existing TV, place this TV, make all the connections, perform basic initial setup, and start watching (enjoying) the programs.

Update 6/15/2007:
Setup menu allows to disable (turn off) the bright blue LED in the front.
No PIP buttons on the remote; you have to use setup menu to control PIP. Based on some threads on forums elsewhere on the Internet, PIP function has limitations.
Yes, you can view the picture for full 178 degrees, but the picture quality starts deteriorate as you move away from the front.
Still enjoying the product very much and very happy with the purchase.

Update 6/18/2007:
Standard definition picture quality is now acceptable after setting noise reduction to high and iDEA setting to black level control.

Update 7/3/2007:
My camera (Canon S2 IS) can shoot excellent video in VGA (640×480) resolution. When I play the video on my other DLP TV, it would stretch the video to fit the screen and blur the picture. 237T supports a display aspect called 1:1 which will show the video as it is without any stretching. I like this feature a lot – even though the picture size becomes small, the quality is very pleasing.

I bought the TV from Target.com and got the set in a reasonable amount of time. I have a problem that makes me withhold judgment. It shuts down periodically, no power at all. I can hear the transformer powering up and down so I think it’s a thermal problem.

Called Olevia and they suggested I return it. I just went through the replacement process so I’ll be working through that process.

While it has been working (about 45 minutes at a time) I really like the picture and it’s auto scan did a good job on my cable (analog and digital). If not for the power-down I’d rate the TV very high. And the channels do change slowly, but a lot better than on my ReplayTV.