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ONIDA Xaria 32 LCD TV
By: Siddharth Bhatia   |   Jul 28, 2008
  • 3
Neat design
Good colors
Brightness/contrast not up to the mark
Rather pricey for the performance
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Onida will always be remembered for its cheeky ads; mainly the ones starring the bald devil. This Indian brand often comes to mind when Mr Upwardly Mobile realizes he can’t afford that shiny new Korean TV after all. To gladden the hearts of such folk, Onida has come out with its new range of Xaria LCD TVs. And we at Tech2.0 recently got the Xaria LO32XRGBB for review. So how does it stack up? Let's find out.

Form factor
Onida has been innovative with the bezel, which will attract the style-conscious – especially women who like to color-coordinate gadgets with the furniture and curtains. The bezel comes in three shades, including a dark orange. Thankfully we got a bluish-gray piece, and it looks good. Apart from the bezel, the frame is glossy black. The sides are quite thick, making the TV look larger than the screen indicates. The flush, touch-sensitive controls look good too.

The back panel looked surprisingly empty, which prompted me to look closely at the sides. Yes, all the connections are on the left side, leaving the back panel bare. The connections include 2 HDMIs, a PC (VGA)-in, and a stream of component/composite-ins. It's the regular stuff that you would find in a 32-inch LCD.

One point I noted in the specs is the inclusion of a Faroudja image processing chip, which Onida is marketing as 'VisD'. Faroudja is a manufacturer of image processor chips, which are found in many good DVD players. VisD claims to do the 'intense notching up' of image quality, like all foreign brands that do the same for their respective image processing technologies.

The response time is 8ms, while the contrast is 8000:1 (dynamic). These ratings may seem to be on the lower side, but high ratings don't really mean much – as far as I'm concerned, it's the performance that matters, rather than impressive contrast ratios and response times.

I tend to gloss over the sound, as TVs usually sound like crap. But Onida seems to have concentrated on the audio, at least on paper. The specs state something called a 'MeloD' processing engine for the sound, which includes some DSP tricks.


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seriously i am taken onida before two days problem of volume automatically incresed, i am very sad & if you have know the setting error or manufacturing defect than please let me know before that seriously i used hairer but its work fine even though after five year.. than brand name does matter in this day not so .. can i get replacement if manufacturing defect
Anit vanjara. @ Nov 07, 2008
the worst product i ever purchased..... stop functioning after every month almost.... from last 6 months its failed 4 times after replacement.
PARAG @ Aug 02, 2008
Panasonic-TX-32LX75 is for 34k - who will purchase this clunker for 50k- is the price a joke ?
vijayshimla @ Jul 29, 2008
I read, Onida is launching mobile phones too. When are you guys putting them to test?
Gopal @ Jul 28, 2008
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