The Japanese brand bravely tries to take its LCD screen business upmarket

JVC has unveiled its flagship flatscreen with 'mix and match' media box options

The DR9BJ is starting to show signs of age against the new breed of LCD tech

Can JVC's LT-26DE1BJ live up to its relatively expensive price tag?

JVC's LT-42DV1BJ is a super-slim full HD whopper with novel handclap technology

A solid HDTV for SD and HD alike, thanks to the new DynaPix engine

The company's second Super Slim TV marks a big improvement over its first

Another LCD giant climbs aboard the Freeview+ train

A decent priced set that has the ability to show some pretty potent pictures

Simplicity and a solid performance at a very affordable price

The JVC LT-32DE9BJ has a couple of distinct advantages over its fellow contenders. One is price – it's the most affordable among many of its rivals thanks to some aggressive retail discounting – and the other is an integrated 160GB hard drive with full Freeview+ PVR functionality.

While Hitachi became the first manufacturer to bring a super-slim TV to the UK market, its WOOO offering lacked a tuner, making its svelte dimensions not as impressive as they first seemed.

At marginally under £500, JVC’s LC-32DA8BJ looks very good value on paper. It’s HD Ready, of course (we wouldn’t review it if it wasn’t), with a native 1366 x 768 pixel count; its connections include twin HDMIs and a component video input to meet your HD needs

Today's rear-pro TVs are an interesting high-performance alternative to flatpanels, and this set certainly wins design points. It looks as slim as a 65in rear-pro set ever could, with a tiny 1cm wide bezel and surprisingly shallow 29.5cm depth. The 65DS8 employs JVC's own DILA projection technology, delivering a Full HD resolution and claimed contrast ratio of 10,000:1.

This rear-projection behemoth sports a staggering 65in screen, which, you have to say, makes its £3,200 price tag look very affordable compared to flat TVs of similar dimensions. While it’s definitely not as slender as an LCD or plasma, the JVC HD 65DS8 is by far the slimmest rear-pro set yet, measuring just 29.5cm. You can even hang it on a wall.

Bring HD to your bedroom with this powerful 26inch LCD

You don't have to look hard to spot the 42DA8BJ's main claim to fame. It's a 42in LCD TV that costs just £1,000. But is it really as great value as it appears? It's nothing special to look at, certainly.

Having often struggled to keep pace with the endless price-slashing antics of its rivals, JVC has finally got down and dirty with the budget boys with the LT-37DG8: a 37in LCD TV costing a mere £900

Every new generation of flatscreen TVs brings with it some new must-have gizmo. And for the current generation, that gizmo is 100Hz.Originally used in cathode ray tube TVs to tackle flickering images, 100Hz doubles the refresh rate of PAL signals.

The latest fad in the flat TV world at the moment is undoubtedly 100Hz - and with good reason. For the process of doubling the usual PAL scanning frequency has been proven to ingeniously avoid LCD technology's infamous problems with resolution loss over moving objects.

This is JVC's first Full HD LCD TV and aims to catch the attention of those who demand the top spec. The screen resolution of 1920 x 1080 only tells part of the story, however - this TV actually can't accept a 1080p signal

If we've grumbled at the price of JVC LCD TVs in the past, we're eating our words at the sight of the manufacturer's entry to this group test: the LT-32DA8BJ weighs in at a slender £700, which is exceptionally good value.

The 37DG8 is one of JVC's less exciting options. Its resolution is a standard 1,366 x 768 and there's no 100Hz. It doesn't even have the highest level of JVC's DynaPix picture processing engine...

With a slightly over-designed look that's at odds with the sleek, black look that's become so popular, the LT-26DA8BJ is not the best looking of the LCDs out there.

JVC has put a lot of store behind its D-ILA technology rear-pros, butit still knows a thing or to about LCD flatpanels. How does this £1,00042in model rate against the competition?