RCA F38310 38" 16:9 HDTV with Built-In DirecTV and HDTV Receivers
Great HD picture, marginal analogue picture
I've had this RCA set for about a year.  The HDTV picture is superb; with the over the air local stations' HDTV selections sharper than the HDTV channels from DirecTV.  If all channels were broadcast in HD this would be a superb set.  However, most programming in non-HD (99%).  The TV comes with a DirecTV HD tuner....the high def channels as mentioned are superb, but everything else is less than average.  All the other non-HD stations (which is all the channels except 199 and the HBO HD station (509) are somewhat blurry and come in in much less detail/resolution than any of my other TV sets connected to DirecTV.  Since most of the programming is now non-HD, most of the TV watching will be non-HD programs, hence, resulting in watching a poor picture.  Had the RCA tech come out and check out the set, could find nothing wrong, and hinted that RCA knows they have this problem with this set and it seems to be related to the built in DirecTV HD tuner.  The way I found around this problem was to purchase another non-HD DirecTV tuner (got a TiVo unit) and connect it to the RCA TV.  I watch the HD stations on the built in RCA tuner and remainder of the DirecTV stations via my accessory DirecTV tuner.  The picture via the accessory tuner is much better but still not quite as good as the picture on get on DirecTV via my old Mitsubishi 35\\" TV.  The other built in tuner (the one obtaining local stations) is much better, and the over the air HD station reception in HD is superb.  The only other drawback is that there are no outputs from the back of the TV; this means one cannot hook up a VCR to tape any shows.  TiVo solved part of this problem, record shows on its disk and can connect VCR to the TiVo unit.