An 'eco' mode does reduce the intensity of the backlight power to enhance energy efficiency, but we found that this impacts too much on the brightness and leaves the lighter areas of the image lacking in vibrancy.

Audio performance

Audio performance won't win any awards, as it lacks bite in the bass and overall dynamism, which takes a lot of impact out of movies. However, given the almost invisible speakers, we felt it did a decent job with general TV content, and dialogue certainly comes over clearly enough.

Overall the lack of a full HD resolution, media features or any truly outstanding areas of performance make it tough to get excited about the TX-L32X15B, but then not every television can be a world beater.

For the price tag (which should dip closer to £500 soon, we'd imagine), the set delivers solid, all-round performance with the added touch of 100Hz scanning, making it well worth a look if you're in the market for a dependable second TV.

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