Westinghouse LTV19W3  19-Inch LCD HDTV
Good value for kitchen/bedroom TV
I use this unit in my bedroom with a samsung HDTV receiver. <br /> <br />Clarity:  The picture quality when viewing HD programming lags slightly behind my 34\\" Sony Wega (CRT).  I believe this is probably because it doesn't have enough pixels to do true 1080i.  Turning down the sharpness to 0 improves the clarity in my opinion.  When the sharpness is high enough to produce a noticable effect, it generates lots of unwanted artifacts in low-contrast areas of the picture. <br /> <br />Color:  The default color settings on mine looked horrid about of the box.  Skin tones were extremely orange and colors were oversaturated.  To get natural looking colors, I had to pick a slightly cooler color temperature and then reduce the color setting somewhat.  Now the color looks great - as good as any TV I've owned. <br /> <br />Contrast/Brightness:  I haven't had to make large adjustments to these settings - black areas of the screen are very black, white areas are very white. <br />   <br />Sound:  The sound is pretty abysmal.  I'd recommend external speakers if this is important to you. <br /> <br />Other:  I may be wrong but from looking at the back, I don't believe this unit is VESA compliant.  Wall mounting it may be difficult.  This is a bit of a let-down being as I can't imagine putting four appropriately place screw holes on the back raises the manufacturing costs significantly. <br /> <br />Overall:  This is probably the best LCD TV $500 can buy.  It has a respectable native resolution of 1440x900.  After adjustment, the color reproduction and picture quality is quite good.  Sure, when compared to 19\\" LCD's by top-tier brands such as Sony and Samsung, it will fall a bit short.  However, those units will be nearly double the price.   <br /> <br />I probably wouldn't buy this to use as my main, living-room TV.  However, I bought this TV to use as an inexpensive, bedroom HDTV monitor.  It has met or exceeded all of my expectations in this role.  It may also make a good combocomputer monitor/television.  I have not plugged a computer into it so I can't speak to it's quality when used as a monitor.  The resolution should be very acceptable though. <br /> <br />Things I would change in a future product revision: <br /> <br />1) Make it vesa compliant for wall mounting <br />2) Improve sound quality <br />3) Improve the default out-of-box settings - particularly color and sharpness settings.