Westinghouse LTV-27W2 27" Widescreen Progressive-Scan LCD TV
Not Home Theater-worthy.
There's a fatal flaw in this TV for me. I use an external receiver and 5.1 surround setup, and so I always set my TVs to use external speakers, rather than the built-in internal speakers.<br /><br />Last night when I set up this TV out of the box, I set the speakers to external, pegged the volume (so that I could use the volume settings on my receiver) and enjoyed my surround sound as I watched my new TV. I'm not impressed at all with the picture quality of the set, but I think it has more to do with the analog signal coming in and having its shortcomings amplified by the LCD screen. I should have bought another CRT, but the thought of carrying that load home dissuaded me to get on board the flat screen experience...<br /><br />Anyway, this morning when I turned on the TV, the speakers had reset to internal and IT WAS TURNED FULL BLAST SO THAT IT NEARLY KNOCKED THE FILLINGS OUT OF MY TEETH... Yikes! Funnily enough, it was a Tom and Jerry cartoon, and Spike the dog's barking brought my long-suffering girlfriend out of the bedroom in a panic, wondering what was going on. A fine way to get knocked out of bed at 6:30 in the morning!<br /><br />I called Westinghouse tech support and was told that this resetting of the audio options was, in fact, a FEATURE, and it was not configurable. Though I appreciate the slapstick kickstart to my day, this is an Achilles' heel to an already mediocre LCD experience. It's back to the store for this one. I'm breaking out the Ben Gay in advance to soothe my soon-to-be aching muscles from carrying a new CRT home.