someone give me the lo-down on the Dynex LCD's.

As far as I know they literally just sprang up from the ground within the past couple months, very little is know about these sets. They could be diamonds in the rough or crap.
From the quick look I took at it I would guess it should easily please a 65 year old mother, assuming she is no videophile ;P

You may already know this, but Dynex is not a manufacturer they are a private label for Best Buy. Meaning that monitor is probably produced by Vizio or Westinghouse or one of the other countless budget LCD makers.

Good deal if it is Vizio, not so great if it's Westinghouse.

On the 32" for $449, the specs look better than the Olevia 232v that CC had for $479. 2 HDMI vs 1 on the Olevia.

Might take the chance if it was for me or my mother (assuming she is local), but not if I was giving it as a gift for somebody else. I'm okay with cheaping out on some things!

Edit: Just noticed the 37" Dynex only has 1 HDMI, 1 component, 1 composite, and 1 S-video input. That doesn't leave a whole lot of options for hooking up different HT components. Are you going to have to worry about hooking up VCR, DVD, cable/sat box, or anything else?

Vizio and Westinghouse dont manufacture their own sets. Maybe Foxcomm or Funai or AMTran.

Does anyone know the response times on the 37" Dynex? I purchased one yesterday and noticed a lot of motion blurring when watching sports.

I mainly watch sports, so I'm wondering if I should return it and get a better brand.

The PQ is pretty good with the Dynex considering the price, but I mainly watch sports, so I think the blurring is more important to me, and I want to stick with LCD vs. Plasma.

The menu screens are identical. Case is slightly different... but product dimensions are not that different. 31.42"x21.81"x4.13" vs. 31-3/4"x23-5/8"x4-3/8"
Both TVs show:
1366 x 768 resolution
2 HDMI Inputs
2 Component Inputs
1 PC input
3d comb filter
3:2 pulldown
ATSC/QAM Tuner
8ms response time
button controls on lower right side of case

Dynex specs at 36 lbs. and DR at 37 lbs.
Dynex: 500 cd/m2 ..... DR 450 cd/m2

They are not identical...but I think the differences are cosmetic. The same menu and similar specs tell me they prob. share the same OEM.
-Cam

Hmm good point videocam. I just picked up a 32" Dynex today from Bestbuy (they had ALOT left at the Tysons, VA store) for my GF's folks and it seems like a decent display overall. It's used as a bedroom set and no complaints so far. Hopefully it won't give them any problems *knock on wood*.

One thing that's interesting to note is that this set has a built in QAM tuner? I don't remember seeing that in the specs.. In the case where a receiver is being used, do people just put a splitter on the coax line before the cable stb and have one goto the STB and one to the tv? Thanks.

Dynex is made by Orion.

Orion Electric is a Thai (Thailand) electronic maker that currently produces electronic products under the low-cost Broksonic, Durabrand, some Insignia, Memorex, Orion, and Sansui brands. Orion also manufactures and assembles all of Toshiba's CRT tube television models beginning this year and some for Panasonic.

It was cable. I returned it and purchased a Samsung.

Well, I auto programmed the TV and the dynex 32" has a QAM tuner. It picked up all the local channels over QAM over Verizon fios. So far so good with this TV. I haven't noticed any blurring or anything out of the ordinary myself. Black levels seem to be "ok," but that's expected imo considering the price of the set.

I picked up two of the 32" models (DX-LCD32). Very nice set. Decent SD performance, moderate HD performance. Great for only $450 each.

Anyone care to share the best way to tweak these things?

Ya, that's how I feel as well. I was pleasantly surprised after tinkering with it for some time. The inputs seem to have individual video settings, as in s-video/component/tv etc. I didn't do much because I was only able to tinker with the set for about an hour or so, but I turned the backlight down to 4 or 40, can't remember, turned the brightness down a few notches, and changed the color setting to Natural from cool. This made a big difference imo, and will probably be just fine for the non-videophile type. For the black friday sale price at BB, it seems to be a great bang for the buck.

I picked up one as well. Happy with it so far. This is my 1st LCD tv, and it looks good to me. I walked into my local BB at 8AM and figured that they would be long gone. I was pleasantly surprised that they still had 1 left... I was in and out of the store in less than 20 min. There was absolutely NO line at the checkout.

Any further info on this TV?

I just bought the DX-LCD32. I'm just trying to get the video to setup up correctly. I think I found the best tweaks, but please anyone, tell me your setup, would love to try and see what you think.

So far the only complaint is the Audio, you need to work on it to get good audio, however I have a nice surround sound so I only use the TV audio for news etc...

I exchanged by Insignia NS-LCD32, It broke on me 2 times for the same problem.

So I had to go with this just to see if there was a chance for difference.

I bought the 37" Dynex from BB online for $629. It was for my brother and he wanted something decent size and around $700 so can put in his office for his patients to watch while they wait.

When it arrived, we took it out of the box at home to set it up and make sure everything is working. Right off the bat I noticed how cheesy and cheap the remote looks, but we turned it on and immediately noticed a dead pixel on the lower middle of the screen. No worry, since PQ isn't really a main concern for this set. After a bit of tweaking it looked pretty decent, really bad viewing angles though, you have to be directly in front of it in order for the picture to look decent, if you're just slightly off to the right or left image becomes washed out.

We packed it back into the box, loaded it up and took it over to his office. Unpacked everything again and hooked it up. Turned it on and to our surprised 2 more dead pixels showed up for a total of 3.

Oh well.... Its been 2 weeks now and its still working nicely with 3 dead pixels, no complaints for its intended use.

I picked a DX-LCD32 up as well. Pretty decent for the price.

It is manufactured by AOC. They also Manufacture the Envision line of monitors and displays, if anyone was wondering.

I'm not sure if AOC makes all of the Dynex displays, but I know they make this specific one, the 37" LCD TV in question.

aocdisplay dot com (I don't have 3 posts, ooops)

I picked up a DX-LCD32 this morning as a gift for my mom. I was on the fence between this and the Westinghouse 32", but I saw too many posts with the westy having green tint issues. I only saw one negative post on this TV, that was about dead pixels.

It will replace her 15 yr old RCA 23" CRT, which has seen better days. I'm going to sneak over Christmas eve night while she's at work to set it up, so I should get some idea of PQ and give my impressions later in the week.

I read that the DX-LCD32 has the QAM tuner, I wonder how well it does with other HDTVs with it.

picked one up for my mom also. After tweaking it some with my Calibration disk the PQ looks good. My mom will love it, big step up from the 13" 19 year old TV she has in her bed room now............ (I got her that too.)

Would not be up to my standards for "my" main TV................but for Mom

Don't think this one will last 19 years

How good is this TV with gaming consoles? Particularly the Xbox 360 and PS3?

02fx4dude, I think the dead pixels thing is random. Some people on bb website say the same and some don't. I didn't have that problem myself with dead pixels especially on the center of the screen and most people are complaining. Other then that, I agree with you that this is a great TV for the price.


Tyger, the gaming on this is excellent. I have my Xbox 360 with HD-DVD add-on and all of it looks amazing. I don't see ghosting and the colors are vibrant. Just make sure you calibrate the TV to yourself and you'll be good to go.

Best Buy is selling that TV for 479.99, Unfortunately My christmas money isn't enough to buy it. However I currently have my Xbox 360 connected to my Gateway 19" Widescreen monitor using the VGA cable. I have it set to 1280x720 which is 720p.

Tyger sorry to read you don't have enough for the TV. I would say save up because the $449.00 price range will come and go as time moves, also keep your eye out on discount coupons which help, but I would hold out a bit to get it.


Goodluck and happy gaming.


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