Panasonic CT-34WX54 34" TheaterWide HDTV-Ready Flat Screen TV
Spectacular picture and great price!
My wife and I had to unexpectedly go and buy a new TV as our old 10 year old Sony Trinitron had said goodbye to the RF tuner. So we figured we might as well try and buy an HDTV so we'd be set for the future.<br /><br />I own an Xbox, a progressive-scan DVD player and now HD cable service from Comcast. I wanted a TV that gave me plenty of inputs as well as excellent picture quality.<br /><br />The clarity on this TV is amazing, we looked at regular projection TV's, plasma, LCD, LCOS, and DLP. The only TV's in our price range were the direct view tubes, and the smaller (50\\" and below) projection TVs.<br /><br />We bought this TV going off of word of mouth and also looking at comprable sets side by side in the store.<br /><br />The analog section of this TV is excellent, it does not display much noise in the picture, as I've noticed other TV's don't handle it nearly as well.<br /><br />I only have a couple of quibbles with the TV in regards of features, some are just the nature of tube TV's. It does not display 720p as a format, just 480i, 480p, and 1080i. But in looking at how TV's display the 2 hi-definition formats (1080i, 720p) to the naked eye it's indiscernable, most the sports coverage (ABC, ESPN, FOX) all display their formats in 720p, but the cable boxes look like they \\"side convert\\" so that you can view all HD content regardless of resolution.<br /><br />The other problem I have is with the remote, I wish the light would come on whenever you hit a button on the remote, instead of  having to hit the light button everytime. Also the codes that are built into the remote seem to lack codes, as Motorola cable boxes  don't have a code on the TV remote, so you just have to do an \\"auto-search\\" to find a code that does the basics (no guide functions).<br /><br />This is definently the best tube TV available on the market, (as this is about as large as they come) and have enjoyed it every minute of watching it.