As a simple PC monitor for a desktop, this 20in LCD from Tiny is rather well designed. Equipped with a sturdy carry handle and well-built, if bland silver exterior, as well as side-mounted speakers, it certainly doesn't look cheap.

That's until the specification sheet comes our way. At 640 x 480 pixels, this is actually the lowest resolution LCD we've reviewed in a long while, which goes some way to explaining how Tiny can get the set down to a generous bargain-basement price. The cost has been kept low by sparse connections, too, which number a solitary Scart, S-video, PC , composite video and stereo audio inputs and outputs.

Of course, there's the aerial input for accessing the analogue TV tuner - which is about all that separates the screen from being just a PC monitor. But while the basic auto-search function works well, tuner pictures fail to impress, with lots of grain and ghosting apparent - although that's UK analogue TV for you, more than any fault of this set. Better to use that Scart to get pictures from a separate Freeview digital box to give the LC-20H3S a fighting chance.

We used spooky new release Boogeyman as our test disc, and the resulting pictures were initially disappointing. The two most noticeable flaws are picture noise and the set's representation of blacks. Swathes of black in images were deep, but far too much like 'black holes', with no detail whatsoever.

Running on empty

What's more, while we have seen worse LCDs when it comes to motion sickness, the Tiny's problem with this still meant that when actors ran across camera, the background was left flickering to a distracting extent.

However, closer inspection revealed a few picture gems. The screen coped well with a complex scene of a closet attack by the Boogeyman, and managed to accurately resolve the flash-style camera work and fast-changing colours.