I noticed right away that the 32mm cheapies merge more easily; I think because the eyelens on the TV Plossls is larger. Going back and forth a few times it got a little easier but the Celestrons always merged more quickly. Magnification and FOV was similar, of course, and there wasn't a huge difference in the views. I had the feeling that more details stood out after a period of gazing with the TV's but could find no one detail that was only visible in one or the other. I guess I'd recommend the Celestrons considering the price difference.
I also tried out the 19mm Panoptics - great! Very quick to merge, nice views. Both sets deserve a good deep sky test but at my location it wasn't gonna happen tonight so that will be another report.
I had a pair of 6mm orthos that look suspiciously similar and was hoping they would make a good bino planet pair - they did seem to match up pretty well but too much magnification for tonight so we'll see about that later also.
CGE performance was so-so; I could tell from the motor sounds that I didn't have it balanced as well as I had thought. Didn't have the Allen wrench with me (which is totally amazing, since there's a storage hole right on the mount for it!) so I didn't have it anywhere near polar alignment. Despite all that, it actually put objects in the FOV of a 13.8mm SWA and tracked well enough to play with eyepieces and binos on the Moon and Jupiter.
