A contender in the small display, 16:9 aspect ration category, the Daewoo DLT20W2 is a good choice for a second or third television and would be right at home in the kitchen or laundry. The 160-/140-degree viewing angle doesn’t compete at the 178-degree level, but at a resolution of 1366 x 768 you will enjoy a satisfactory image even if you have to sit directly in front of the television set!

Connectivity apparently fell pretty low on the design list with the DLT20W2, as the pickings are quite slim. This model comes with only one SCART port, one component video input, a composite video in, and an S-Video port. An HDMI socket is conspicuously missing. This unit is HD Ready so don’t sweat the small stuff too much. After all, if you’re buying a 20-inch display you’re probably on a budget anyway, and feature abundance is not likely your primary buying criteria.

Two 5-watt, stereo speakers and audio outputs come standard on the DLT20W2, a condition that keeps this model sitting squarely in the economy category. If you’re after a bare bones, HD Ready, Digital LCD television set for sporadic and short-term viewing, here is your pick.

A life expectancy is not given for this model specifically, however the website of a competing manufacturer denotes that modern standards put the lifespan of most models in both the plasma and LCD categories at around 60,000 hours. That comes to just about 360 weeks of continuous use, but that kind of wear is unlikely. If you watch television for four hours per day, seven days a week, a modern digital television set like the DLT20W2 should last for roughly 40 years according to my calculations! There will most definitely be new broadcast and display technologies available for mass consumption before these things stop working, barring some kind of defect and assuming that Panasonic’s estimates are correct.