Toshiba 32AF42 32" TV with FST PURE Flat Screen
4.5 stars anyway - better than the current Sonys
I had bought a Sony KV-32FS100 which got returned. This is the set that replaced it. It has none of the convergence problems the Sony had, and other than a slight trapezoid image (narrower on the right side - the Sony had this also) the geometry is quite good. Both the Sony I returned, and the Sony display model where I bought this set, had serious geometry problems ....<br />... I ended up getting the Avia Guide to Home Theater DVD (also highly recommended), and using that to adjust the picture settings - now the color looks great (hue is set to +20 - that's how far into red the standard setting is). My wife and I both prefer the (bluish) red phosphor that Toshiba uses to the (orangish) one Sony uses (we were both fans of Mitsubishis when they still made direct views). There is a downside to all of this - it shows how variable the quality of our cable signal is.<br />This set also doesn't make the huge \\"WHUNG...\\" sound the Sony made when you turned it on. And while the bezel around the screen is still too wide for my tastes (and silver to boot), it looks downright small next to the Sony, which was too wide AND too tall AND silver.<br />The only thing I wish this set had is the multiple user adjustable video settings that the Sony and other brands have. This set has only one user adjustable setting - the others (Standard, Movie, Sports) are locked in presets. In fact, if you make the mistake of trying to adjust one of the presets, it will automatically replace your user adjustable settings with the ones you are adjusting, so it's not a bad idea to write your settings down somewhere so you can recover them.<br />All in all, I'm very happy with the set. It's not perfect - as I mentioned in the review title, I'd give it a 4.5 if I could. But as the deficiencies have to do with features and configuration rather than performance, giving it a 4 would be damning it with faint praise, so 5 it is.