Sony KP43T75 43" Projection TV (Gray)
You may want to think again
I've always held Sony up on a pedestal in the world of electronics so I thought buying the Sony KP43T75 would have been a great choice. The picture quality in the sales store seemed to be just as vibrant and brilliant as the Tube televisions. It was just the right size for my apartment with the minimum 5ft viewing distance and 130 degree vertical viewing angle. So I bought it. From the day I hooked this TV up I've had nothing but problems with it. I have time warner digital cable and when ever I wanted to watch HBO I would get this weird rolling of colors on my screen that would come and go sparatically. I called Time warner and they sent someone out that said nothing was wrong with the cable. I then called Sony. Sony sent out a technician who put a new resistor in the TV and said that would fix it. Nope. Three weeks later the Sony tech returned to replace the entire board in the TV. That fixed the color rolling problem but now the TV had a convergence problem were it would rapidly jump in and out of convergence making it impossible to watch anything. Two weeks later the Sony tech came out again with another replacement board. This has seemed to correct the problems mentioned above but the Sony tech did not completely go through and set the TV up correctly and now my picture is not centered and I have about 1 inch of black(no picture) along the left side of the screen. The Sony tech said it would be another week before he could be out to fix it. Also during this entire time when the TV is working alright the convergence was never to my satisfactory. It would look good for about two days after the Sony tech came out and adjusted it then it would start getting worse after that, no matter how many times I pressed the flash focus button. I guess this is expected though with any projection TV. From the other reviews that I've read it seems that I may have gotten a lemon of a TV. I just thought this might help someone else before they bought this TV. If your a person thatexpects perfect picture quality then this is not the TV for you. Get a Wega or atleast a tube television. I don't think that picture quality should have to suffer this much to get a larger screen size. It's hard to rate this TV since I think that my problems may have been an isolated incident. I would give it 3.5 stars if it worked, but for my TV, I'll have to give it 1.5 stars.