Toshiba 46HM84 46-Inch TheaterWide HD-Ready Rear-Projection DLP TV
I can't understand why no one can make quality electronics anymore
I bought this TV from Amazon in January as a birthday present to myself.  I had just returned a 36 Sony HD tube TV that the power supply went out after 4 hours (not bought at Amazon so I could actually return the thing for an, imagine this, refurn on a defective product).    The picture and sound on this Toshiba TV is excellent.  It weights only 100 pounds rather than the 260 of the Sony tube TV.  The picture is huge and very high quality.  I have a good progressive scan DVD player and the high def pack for my Xbox and they are both great.    But I started to get a weird problem about in late March.  The picture would turn green and freeze with 2 inch by 2 inch pixels.  The sound would continue and the picture would remain frozen.  It would usually pass after 2 to 3 minutes.  It started to occur more often so I took it in for service.  (You can't return this type of purchase to Amazon, which I knew).  It's been in the shop for the past 2 months and I still don't have my TV.  I guess they needed to replace some circuit board and the new one (refurbished I'd bet) was bad.  So I continue to wait.  The service people inform me that Toshiba requires they try and fix it 3 times before I can get a new TV or a refund.    I don't think you can beat the price but I would very highly suggest an extended, in-home warranty.  Which I don't think you can get when purchasing from Amazon.    I'm an electronics junkie but I am getting sick and tired of this crappy quality made in China junk.  You just can't buy anything decent anymore.    ****** update on August 5, 2005    Scaler board didn't fix it.  Then they tried the light engine and that didn't fix it.  So the last major component was the power supply so they replaced that, no luck.  Luckily Toshiba agreed to get me a new TV.  I can only hope this one is better.....