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5
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Very happy with new TV,
07/21/2009
This was my first LCD TV, going from an old CRT "tube" TV so I do not have prior LCD experience. I bought this TV based on lots of research, reviews, and price/budget.
Pros.
It has an excellent picture, bright and beautiful. There are lots of options that you can use to really optimize it if you are into that, but there are also preset optimizations (Movies, Games, Sports, etc) that help quite a bit if you don't want to get too technical . I love watching movies on this TV. Video games (Wii, PS3) are truly awesome. 1 note, you will need component cables to play Wii or else it will have a delay, they run about $15.00 if you don't already have them and you will want an HDMI cable for your PS3. Let me say again, Gaming ROCKS on this TV.
The sound is quite good for a TV, but I have hooked up a surround sound stereo and use that primarily for sound.
The TV, and the box it comes in, is very large. If you do not have an SUV or a truck you may want to have this delivered or get a friend to help pick it up. I found out the hard way.
Cons:
It gets warm, much warmer than my old tube TV but I guess this is to be expected due to the size. There are 2 stuck/malfunctioning pixels, not dead, but stuck, one on a dark red and one on a blue. The pixels light up with certain colors but stay dark on others (this is how I know they aren't dead). virtually unnoticeable at 6 feet away and like I said, they do change colors at times so it's not something your eye latches onto. Still, a little disappointing that a new TV has this condition.
Notes:
widescreen and blue rays will be cut off at the top and bottom of the screen. I didn't understand this until recently, not the TV's fault but if you were expecting to use all 47 of those inches on that new blue ray player think again as most movies formats exceed the 16:9 ratio and thus you have bars...unless you want to stretch it but then the picture gets really strange. This will probably only apply to people like me who are getting an LCD/widescreen for the first time.
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5
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4
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| Picture Quality: |
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5
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4
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5
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