Samsung TX-R3080WH 30" Wide SlimFit HDTV
Great TV
Great TV.  Fabulous picture.  No complaints of any kind. Several reviewers of the sister model TX-R3079WH, which is identical except the speakers are on the sides, complained of geometry problems, specificaly bowing at the bottom and blooming at the sides during transitions between bright and dark seens.  Mine has virtually no bowing at the bottom and very little blooming.  I think that the reviewers that have complained about the geometry issues are simply fixating on a minor problem.  In reality, the tube in this TV is a marvel of engineering.  Frankly, I expected and was ready to accept much more distortion than exists because of the difficulties in steering the electron beam around corners to make this design work.  You have to have your priorities.  If you want a svelte design picture tube, then you generally have to pay the price somewhere else - geometry.  I was very pleasantly surprised by how good it actually is.  I was originally in the market for a flat panel.  However, the less expensive ones have poor picture performance.  In order to do close to as well as this Samsung, I would have had to spend twice the money and even then the picture wouldn't have been as good - especially in a darkened room.  And the Samsung is amazingly thin at 16 inches.  Not as thin as a flat panel for sure, but no mammoth box like the competitors.