Customer Reviews
Spectacular Video and Sound 5 Star 
2008-04-13
If you are looking for a superb HD picture, the best SD upconverting, aesthetics and theater quality sound, this one is for you. This is not your standard Olevia model. It was launched with a 3499 MSRP to compete with the Soy XBR4 and high end Sharps. Professional reviews rate the PQ higher than those TVs. 50 Watt speakers are superior to anything you'll find attached to other bezels. It's a big risk buying sight unseen which most will do with this model. You won't be sorry.
BEWARE - Company near bankruptcy 
2008-02-22
Service may become even more difficult - they have major financial problems, as is reflected in their stock price (ticker: BRLC).
I love my 37" Olevia, and have had no problems with it, but wouldn't buy another until they get their house in order.
great till you need serivce 2008-02-15
I must say the set is great till you need service
The company is the worst. you cannot even get a Tv reparir person to fix them for the parts are no where to be found.
I have 7 Oleiva's and would not buy another after the customer service
2 broke and no one can fix them. i asked the company for a service center and they dont have one. They only exchange or replace with older units and reboxed
Beware this great price when your set goes DOA
For the money you can get a Sony or others
Go with the good guys Sony or Samsung have better service and thats a plus
the sony Bravia KL46w3000 is a better set as well
If you think i am lying call Olevia and ask them for a local service center or repair place
BEWARE THE BEAST
Worst customer service I have ever seen 2008-01-03
We bought an Olevia TV for the holidays only to find out that the remote control and ALL cords were missing from the box. We immediately called Olevia to report the problem. They promised to send the missing items. The best they could do was to send them in TWO weeks. Two weeks passed and no cables, no remote. It has been about two months and we are still waiting for the parts. Olevia has terrible customer service.
Picture Problems 
2007-12-24
Don't get me wrong, I wanted to love this TV. I bought it for my parents for Christmas. When I got home, I was shocked to find that the TV was full of problems.
First of all, the TV is twice as heavy as it should be. A TV like this should be 60-80 lbs. The Olevia 747 is more than twice that weight. My parents were unable to carry the TV upstairs!
Once the TV was set up, it was nothing but trouble from there. At first, the TV looked great. Then after a few days the picture started flickering on the component inputs. My guess is that the inverter board on the TV is shot. This was very noticeable, and was more than enough reason to return the TV.
If that wasn't enough though, we then noticed a HUGE black circle in the middle of the TV. Whenever you were watching a dark scene, or switching inputs, it looked like there was a big lunar eclipse in the middle of your TV! Really horrible.
Oh, and whoever said this TV was made in the USA is not correct. The box says made in Taiwan!
Do yourself a favor and DO NOT buy this TV!
We're getting a Samsung 46" instead:
Samsung LNT4661F 46" 1080p LCD HDTV
It's cheaper and has great reviews!
Spectacular TV for less than $1,000 2008-06-12
I had read the reviews and had one of Olevia's computer monitors and so was well aware of the brand.
The set is huge, has great contrast, color, incredible sharpness and very goodsound. I plugged in a powered subwoofer and it felt likeI was in a theatre.
The set is very heavy. They put a thick piece of glass in front of the LCD panel. Makes cleaning much safer and easier than most LCD TVs. Makes it eay to clean and looking sharp, but it does add a lot of weight.
Don't be afraid that it is not a "brand name".
Save yourself several nundred dollars and get a set that no one can claim that their's is better.
WARRNING 2008-05-08
Don't buy a Syntax Olevia! I bought one and it died almost to the day the warranty went out. Customer service said I would have to pay to ship it back and pay the parts and labor to fix it and that would cost over half of the TV's cost. They wouldn't offer to help with anything and they said they lost my registration card, the same one they used to call me with to ask me how I liked it a week after I bought the TV. So all I can do is to post this to every blog I can to try to inform others.
Really good Bang for your Buck. 2008-05-07
Other then the fact this TV is 160 pound range there is absolutely nothing I can complain about with this TV. The picture quality is excellent. What really made this TV was the Game Mode feature for me. Trying to play Guitar hero 3 for my Wii was challenging before turning on Game Mode; because of the TV trying to upconvert to 1080p.
For 47" LCD at 1300$ shipped is a price range that cant really be touched by most other TV's at the moment.
Olevia 747 is Superb 2008-05-07
Having owned this TV for around a month its one of the best TVs I have ever owned. All my previous TVs were Sony's and yes its right there with them or above them.
I paid $1300 delivered to the door what a bargain! Out of the box its pretty close to perfect. The only adjustments I did was to lower the brightness and set the advanced black level enhancer to on, the lighting was set to dark room, this TV has plenty of brightness turning it down a little will extend the life of the LCD and also improve the picture giving better black levels. Some pro reviews have stated that the black level performance was average, lowering the brightness will improve that.
There is still a lot of standard definition out there and this set performs much better than I expected and better than any other LCD Ive seen, probably due to the excellent Silicon Optix HQV processor it up-scales the tuner to what looks like standard DVD. DVDs look close to 720p HD and that's without an up converting DVD player. If you are watching SD TV you can be hard pressed to think its HD that is until you go to a HD station.
HD is simply stunning its like looking out a window very few Hdtvs can achieve this, color quality is excellent. Color temp is user adjustable at 6500 or 9200 but it's not necessary to adjust 6500 is fine in my opinion. It has PIP which I use often for sports, and a nice function called channel surfing it will display several channels at once so you can choose the one you want. it also has Split screen.
The Menu is good once you master it, it could drive some people crazy at first though because of the rotating menu. The remote has several small buttons which when viewing in the dark are hard to find despite the fact that it back lit, you have to memorize the ones you need to use like favs sleep view etc, that's about the only thing I can complain about oh it is heavy at 130lbs but once you get it into place that not an issue other thing in researching this TV I heard what I thought was a ridiculous complaint about an egg shaped image when the TV was switching input or in very dark scenes, I saw it too but it disappeared after a week or so, Maybe it had to break in whatever its gone,
Sound quality is very good with 25 watts per channel and nice sounding speakers, it has a lot of sound enhancements such as wide sound deep bass and idfa which is preset eq settings for Movie live speech etc.
The fact that Olevia is a new company I give them a lot of credit getting to top of the heap so quick. I own a 32" and 27" Olevia I had a problem with the 32 but Circuit City replaced it and the new one it working great. I would recommend that you buy warranty protection for it being we know little about its reliability. I purchased one on the net for $150 for 5 years at Teds unlimited there are other company's that you can go with as well. So for $1450 I have a great TV with a 5 year warranty.
I almost felt guilty for not buying a Sony but their 40" Bravia was several hundred dollars more. So Instead I have Sony quality with a Olevia price. I recommend this TV highly walk run or surf and get one before the price go's up. FM
Amazing Video Processor 2008-04-30
This TV's Silicon Optics HQV video processor is as good as advertised. It's easy to make HD content look amazing, but most HD TVs do a crappy job of displaying SD content. If the SD content is good quality, it's often hard to tell that you're not watching a HD channel.
The negative of this TV is the weight and glass front.
