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Back in July a couple of years ago, we moved house. The house we've moved into is bigger than the one we left, and has a bigger lounge. The JVC 22" telly that has served us so well for going on 11 or 12 years looked really, really dinky in the new house. So it was decided to do a touch of shopping.

Shopping with a man and a teenager for a television is clearly a mistake - or at least it is when you are hoping not to need a second mortgage to support the television.

We found ourselves in the Sony shop, admiring the Sony Bravia KDL-S32A12U wide screen 32" HD (High Definition) ready LCD digital TV. "Cool," the family said. "Let's buy it," the family demanded. So ten minutes and 1300 later, we had to leave teenage daughter to take the bus home, and the TV was loaded into the back of the car (we had to fold the back seats down). We were the proud owners of an improbably large and expensive television set.

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Installation
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Installati on for me was extremely easy - I prepared dinner, whilst my husband hooked everything up. Although the device is large (obviously), it is not as heavy as you'd expect. We lifted the telly from its box, and discovered it is attached to a mini-swivel stand (which is just as well, as it's flat, it wouldn't stand up otherwise). We were setting the TV up on the floor, since the 'proper' stand we've ordered wasn't yet in (and, in fact, as of 10 November, the telly is STILL on the floor). Apart from help with lifting, my main contribution to the installation process (apart from offering advice - hubby LOVED that) was to install the supplied AA batteries into the TV remote.

Peering around the back of the TV, we found two SCART leads, the hole for the mains lead, the outlet for the coaxial (aerial) cable, and loads of other outlets that are a bit of a mystery to me (to allow you to hook up a surround system or stereo and other techie stuff).

We have a Sky box, so we used the two SCART outlets for the Sky box and for the DVD player - we haven't yet hooked up the VCR.

Once everything is plugged in and hooked up, the TV automatically looked to tune itself, as it is a Freeview ready television. It couldn't find any digital channels, since we hadn't plugged it into the aerial. However, once we plugged the telly into the Sky box, all was well. The last thing we needed to do was to fiddle with the Sky remote to get it to recognise our TV, and all was well.

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All Hooked

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