It's not always rosy

I'm always posting about the things that are great about all my gear, I thought it was about time I started highlighting some of the not so great aspects. So the first piece of equipment up for ridicule is the Loewe Xelos 5381ZW.

Don't get me wrong the picture is excellent and everything that I've watched on the TV looks awesome but there are a few quirks that are annoying with it.

• The TV has a brilliant idea of a covering panel on the back to hide all the connections so you can limit the clutter. This is great except for the fact that you can only use certain right angled SCART connections otherwise the back plate won't fit back into place. (a lesson learnt the hard way)
• The second annoyance is the TVs annoying habit of trying to work out the right ratio for images it is receiving. Normally this works pretty well it does take a few seconds of ratio changing for it to get it right but it does get there eventually. However, if you want to turn it off you can't, the option in the menu to stop it from automatically changing ratios just seems to have no effect. Also it doesn't work at all on the Component input no matter how you connect it or what options you set it will always choose Panoramic mode (which is kind of a combination of Zooming and Stretching)

It's not bad really if they are the only things I'm not happy. But it does go to show not everything is perfect!