Westinghouse LVM-42W2 42-Inch 1080p LCD Video Monitor
Fantastic Set, a Few Minor Quibbles
When I first got this thing, I was switching from DirecTV to Dish, and had not gotten the HD DVR yet (the 622). I hooked this up and thought um, yuck. The image was stretched and the colors looked kind of washed out. After the HD hookup, of course the HD images are mind blowing. The SD images vary. The set is so big that some shows, that have low quality, will look worse than they did on your tube (I was coming up from a 31\\" Toshiba). However, there is a lot of SD stuff that looks almost as good as HD. The 622 has a button for skipping between different modes, so keeping the set from stretching the image is very simple.<br /><br />Absolutely amazing that an image can look this good for this much dough.<br /><br />My minor quibbles are that sometimes it will not turn on or off. A couple times, I had to disconnect and reconnect it. I emailed their support and they blamed the power strip (which I find hard to believe as it is a Monster). Also, setting up control of the set through the Dish universal remote was a royal pain. I read on the internet that Westinghouse uses Sony codes. Now, sometimes it works through the universal remote and sometimes not. I have not run the vid through my receiver as it does not have digital source switching, and the cheapest ones that do are a grand. Leaning that way though. Got an upconverting DVD player and that looks very good, going in through the HDMI jack.