Toshiba 26HF66 26" Upconverting Widescreen Pure Flat CRT HDTV
Great TV, expecially for the price
This TV is the successor to the 26HF84 and the most obvious change is the black bezel. I'm still waiting for a remote that works with my Comcast HD tuner. Without this I ended up juggling remotes: one for changing channels and another for changing video inputs between TV, DVD, and video camera.  In the end I got a Kameleon universal remote which simplified things.<br /><br />A couple of other things to note about this TV:<br /><br />First, it uses a picture tube rather than an LCD or plasma display. So while the screen is flat, it's not thin. You can't tell by looking at the pictures, but this TV is 19\\" thick.<br /><br />Second, although it's pretty thick, at 27.5\\" wide it's unusually narrow for a 26\\" HDTV. The narrowness comes from having the speakers below the picture, rather than on each side. This is very handy if you want to put the TV in a cabinet that's short on width. The Syntax Olevia TVs are handy this way as well because the side speakers are removeable.<br /><br />A picture tube has its pluses and minuses over an LCD or plasma screen.  Two big pluses are that CRT's cost a lot less and are very bright.  No difficulties watching this TV in a bright room.  The obvious minus is that they're thick and heavy. A second technical downside is that straight lines don't necessarily come out straight.  If you display a test pattern on the screen you can see that there's slight distortion, with lines bowing out in the middle.  This could be a problem if you planned to use the TV as a computer monitor (which you are specifically cautioned not to do, by the way).<br /><br />In practice, when you look at television programs you don't notice whether straight lines are perfectly straight and you get a picture that is gorgeous. When displaying HDTV programs the quality of this TV is everthing you could hope for.  You can get a bit spoiled and you really notice the difference when you go back to a standard TV, or watch programs that aren't in HD.