Philips 30PW8402/37 30" HD-Ready TV with RealFlat Screen
Highly Recommended-Gorgeous video
Plasma dims with use, DLP needs a new $400 bulb after 2000 hours, LCD doesn't do motion well and can develop stuck pixels, so tube seems best, especially for darker darks and lighter whites. This Philips 30 inch HDTV widescreen tube seems absolutley perfect. Looked at darker Sony sets and brighter Samsung and picked Philips for the beautiful image on the screen. From 6 feet away or even closer, there are no visible scan lines, just a perfectly dazling beautiful image. I've worked on this HDTV purchase for what seems like 35 years and I'm very happy with this Philips HDTV. It's overwhelming. <br /> <br />Specs talk of 1051i resolution with no mention of 720p which confused me, but turned out to be no problem.  <br /> <br />Specs talk of \\"Eye Fidelity\\" feature which does not seem to be on any onscreen menu or switch on the back. The 34 inch sat next to it at BEST BUY but didn't look anywhere near as good particulary with motion, which confused me, since I couldn't find Eye Fidelity as a user control item. The 34 inch may have been stuck on progressive and the 30 inch stuck on interlaced - but I never found any controls.  <br /> <br />Five stars if I could just figure out if the $130 DVI-HDMI cable helped. Component cables with RCA connectors seemed to work just fine, although channel changing seems faster with the non-compressed HDMI connection. My Samsung SIR-T351 tuner will pump out 1080i on either DVI or component outputs, but does the Philips accept 1080i on component inputs is the question. Wish I had some sort of test video, that told me whether I was watching 1080i or 720p. The screen is so enormously impressive, it overwhelms.  <br /> <br />Occasionaly sold for $750 on sale, and worth twice that much, particularly for the viewing angle. Projection TVs looked like the old laptop computers when we all asked \\"is it on?\\".  <br /> <br />My old indoor small plastic Jensen TV-920 settop amplified antennae works perfectly for 16 over-the-air digital channels in Tucson, except the audio is interupted occasionally when an individual stands between the transmission towers and the antennae. Video no problem. Digital audio not as steady. Total confusion asking questions in the stores.