Samsung HL-S5086W 50-Inch DLP HDTV
Love this television...
Granted, I was upgrading from a thirteen year old Sony Trinitron, but still. When we went shopping for TV's, the picture on the Samsung DLP was way superior to the LCD's and almost as good as plasma -- you could see the difference right away in the show room. The picture on the high def channels is AMAZING. It's hard to get used to the way some high def programs broadcast with the black border around the picture -- and though you can choose to stretch the piture to full screen, the picture quality isn't nearly as good. We have about 10 high def channels; I can't wait for more to be added. Watching a movie is awesome! Ordinary channels are fine, certainly better than what I was accustomed to watching.  <br /> <br />I also bought the Sony one disc high def DVD player -- you can't watch high def on an ordinary player. I think that it's a bit misleading -- most people would think you could go home, plug in your TV, and voila! All high def channels! You need to do some serious research before you decide what to buy. For example, I looked at the 1080 model (instead of the 720 I bought) and decided it would be too long for me to actually get much benefit from that type of resolution. <br /> <br />Amazon first quoted a month window for the TV to arrive; it came in two weeks, so that was a wonderful surprise. The TV is lightweight, and hooking it up wasn't complicated. Also the price offered here with free shipping is way below Circuit City's price. <br /> <br />One minor drawback -- I wish I could find a universal remote that actually could do ALL the functions for each attached device. For example, the cable universal with my DVR controls is great except that I can't access the TV menu -- meaning I can't change the color, sound, size of picture, etc, without using the TV remote. It took forever (and my spending hours trying every TV remote code in the world) before someone finally said that a weakness of TV remotes is that they can power up and down, change channel and volume, but not much more than that.