Cost Effective Home Theater
Pros:
Picture, HDMI inputs, lightweight, theater-like experience, nice sound features (volume range control and voice-stress settings)
Cons:
Not as bright as an LCD TV (10x more expensive for same size?!)
The Bottom Line:
Buy it if you want a BIG TV!!!
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Author's Review
I bought this TV for $2800 (slightly less actually) from 6ave.com (6th Avenue Electronics). I also bought the stand for $449 from them. The delivery and setup in-home for me was $200.00.
The TV replaced a Toshiba 55" TheatreView that has died. This is my first HDTV, so I also upgraded my cable service from Cox Communications.
The picture looks FANTASTIC. It's VERY close to a movie-like experience. We sit 11-12 feet back from the set, and fills our field of vision. The set displays HDTV images so beautifully that I have even gotten a little motion sick with the fly-through-the-canyon HDTV pics on INHD2 channel.
Standard TV images suffer a bit, something I'm willing to live with for the larger screen. With a 72" TV, this is going to be more pronounced no matter which screen you go with. The quality of regular TV in a POP window is very good though, so that's one option if it bugs you.
The set is light and was easy to lift up onto the stand once I had finished building it about an hour later. The stand that is designed for it fits like a glove. The stand and TV were thinner than my old set as well, and with the stand I got rid of the component rack I used to have, freeing up real estate in my living room.
The HDMI inputs worked instantly, without any setup necessary. I love having 2 HDMI inputs to the TV and I used a DVI->HDMI cable to hook up my laptop as well. The component inputs I used for my older DVD/VCR player and I even tried the picture viewer with an SD and CF card from my digital cameras....kind of a neat feature, but the quality from my laptop output was much better (so I'll use Picassa instead of the built-in viewer).
For the price I paid, I'm very happy with the purchase.
