Sony KV-34HS420 34-Inch FD Trinitron WEGA HD-Ready CRT TV
High end CRT HDTV: a great value for your money
After much research, I still believe that the CRT technology is unmatched for HDTV. Take your time and visit the stores and watch how images are refreshed on LCD or plasma then compare to CRT. There is only one reason to by the flat screens: if you have space problem.<br />Picture quality (your first requirement in a TV) is outstanding. In HD is breathtaking. I fully agree with another review listing the Discovery HD channel as your \\"guest amazement\\" option. I got hooked up to that and it is now my channel of choice. The image is so perfect that I wish I could print it out to create posters.<br />Audio is very good, of course you can connect it to a HT system, good values around 400 $ will give you a great improvement.<br />This SONY 34\\" HDTV is awesome but will take one whole corner (about a four by four feet space) out of your living room. It is also extremely heavy (about 160 lbs) so forget about dragging it very much upstairs.<br />There are only two things I would improve: add a second HDMI input (a must if you want to connect an up-converting DVD) and add a 'toggle' button on the remote for the input sequence. The TV has seven different inputs (from regular analog cable, through a sequence of S-Video and composite inputs, to the high end HDMI). It would be nice to be able to, say, 'toggle' between HDTV cable box and DVD without having to go through all of them.<br />So, if you are looking for an HDTV now, this is your match. For the next few years the quality of CRT will still remain on top. Be sure however to decide between the 30\\" and 34\\" size. I felt that the 30\\" was too small for my living room but I have to say that the 16:9 aspect ratio may throw you off: this is a large TV.