Toshiba 30HF84 30" TheaterWide HD-Ready Flat-Screen TV
good value, great picture
I ordered the TV from amazon directly and it arrived in just a few days. I actually picked it up from the shipping companies hub in Los Angeles (Eagle) - great service people! The TV was shipped from Reno, NV. It was manufacted in July 2004 in Thailand and worked right out of the box. I did have to adjust the color and contrast settings as the default sports mode it way to bright in my opinion. No trouble with any horizontal or vertical alignment at all. I purchased a dvd / vhs combo machine also from toshiba (SD-V392)and hooked it up with component cables, the picture quality is very good. On regular digital TV (Charter Comm.) hooked up via coax cable due to a old box (scientific 3100) quality is mixed. Some channels come in perfect, others are not so good. I was told by a Charter servcie rep. that all channels above 100 come in with better signal and all networks channels may be not so good on weekends as their signal come in nationally as compared to local during the week. go figure! I will try their HD service with new HD box (8000)and see if teh picture gets better. The new box can be hooked up with DVI or component Cable.  Fo regular TV I mainly use Theater Wide 1 or 3 to get a full 16:9 picture. TW 3 has a benefit of cutting of those annoying runners on the bottom of Fox and CNN and MSNBC! and I still see most of the picture on other channels like HGTV and local WB (KTLA) for news etc.