Philips 34PW850H 34" Digital Widescreen HD-Ready TV (Silver)
Overall it looks like  a great deal, but I've had problems..
I bought my Philips 34&quot; 34PW850H at Sam's Club after many weeks of research and consideration.  At first I thought it was the perfect television and for a great price, but then one night I discovered a technical problem.  The room was dark, cable turned off, but the TV's power was still on.  I saw &quot;jail bars&quot; (bars of light dark and dark dark) on 1/4 of the wide screen on the left side.  They were heaviest on the far left and then faded as they went across.  I turned off the television and didn't think anything of it.<br />Then the next night, my wife and I were watching a crime thriller movie on a cable channel.  It was a very dark movie (by dark I mean a lot of night scenes and low lighting).  Low and behold, I could see the jail bars!!  I thought it might be a cable problem so I put in a DVD.  During the opening credits of the film I could see those jail bars again!  Now I must confess, even on darkly lit movies it is sometimes hard to see them if there is a lot of action going on.  And on normal television with a lot of bright color, you can't see them at all.  I still felt like I wanted it fixed because I'd never spent so much money on a television.  I called Philips.<br />Flash forward several days and I have a Philips repairman at my house.  It was harder for him to see the bars because it was daytime, but he eventually saw them on a dimly lit daytime soap opera scene.  He didn't have any idea why it was doing it and kept saying he hadn't heard of this problem on the 34&quot; wide screen before.  I kept asking if it was a picture tube flaw and he said, &quot;no.&quot;  I told him that I probably had bought a &quot;lemon&quot; TV and I would take it back and get a new one (not an easy task when it weighs a ton and is so bulky!) and he thought that was a good idea.  In the interim between taking the old one back and getting a new one, I did figure out a way to virtually eliminate the problem:  set the &quot;brightness&quot; level to 43 or less (on a scale of 0 -100), but of course on darker movies and shows, you sometimes want to turn the level up closer to 50+.<br />I finally got the old one back to Sam's and got a new 34PW850H.  I set it up and guess what??  The new TV had the same problem!!  I compared the new serial number to the old one and they were only a couple digits apart.  Maybe they came off the line at the same time.  I really love the colorful picture quality of the 34PW850H and I really loved the price, but it looks like I'm taking the new one back, and starting all over on my television search.  Hopefully it was just me who got the only two lemons in global distribution.