Samsung HLP4663W 46-Inch Widescreen DLP HD-Ready TV Monitor
Stunning picture and sound with few complications
When we moved into our new house, we wanted a widescreen TV that would be the focal point of our living room.  Knowing that widescreen TV signals and HD broadcasting will be the norm in a few years, we wanted to buy one TV that would last us for many years and allow us to be ready for the future.  (Plus most video rentals are all widescreen, limited your display to a smaller picture!)  With a lot of choices on the market, and none of them cheap, we were finally swayed by this TV for a few reasons. <br /> <br />First off, the picture and internal sound from this TV are phenomenal.  When displayed in the store with a HDTV signal, the picture looks like you are standing in front of whatever is onscreen.  You haven't lived til you see this picture with Dicovery HD Channel or the ESPN college football games broadcast in HD- WOW!!! <br /> <br />The second reason we chose this TV was based on comparisons.  We stood in front of a plasma screen display at Circuit City when the store took a power spkie and then an outage.  When the power came back on, there was a 4-inch vertical black bar burned into the screen permanently, not an attractive prospect with a $5000 set.  Most of the plasma sets we saw had pictures that were lower quality than the Samsung DLP series; those with better or equal picture quality cost twice as much as this TV. <br /> <br />The final reason we chose this TV was its size and weight.  We wanted to use our existing entertainment center, and it fit the bill- barely.  Bear in mind the vertical height is listed as 32\\", but it is about a quarter inch taller, which required some adjsutment to our entertainment center.  It fills the center's TV opening fully, and looks amazing to watch.  Weight wise, it weighs about as much as our old 27\\" TV did, so we are thrilled to have this new, bigger TV. <br /> <br />You have many choices for display options.  Using the remote, you can switch the screen from normal 4:3 TV mode, to widescreen, to panorama, zoon, stretchand more.  There are even settings you can select if the TV faces the sun, and one that is best for gaming systems.  The remote is easy to use, and took my less-electronically oriented wife less time to master than the VCR programming. <br /> <br />On the technical side, there are two component inputs (we have the DirectTV and DVD player hooked up in those jacks for the best input possible), and numerous S-cable and traditional component (red, white, yellow) input jacks.  You can have a DVD player, satellite receiver, game system, and VCR all going into this TV with no problem, and can route your sound out to your home stereo system. <br /> <br />The internal sound speakers are more than capable with sharp sound, but did provide the ony problem we have experienced when they couldn't deliver sound properly.  The warranty coverage fixed the problem very quickly, and again, we had a Bose home stereo to listen to as a backup speaker source.  But that is the only problem we have found, and we watch this TV a lot. <br /> <br />With an easy setup, easily understood onscreen menu and instruction manual, you would be hard pressed to have anything but glowing comments for this TV.  With a crystal clear picture, and with a price tag that is much lower than competitve plasma sets, we feel we got a bargain for our home theater system's most important piece.