Astar LTV-3001 30-Inch LCD Flat Panel HD-Ready TV
Great bang for your buck, and no problems yet!
REVIEW UPDATE!    Below is my original review for this TV. However in January of 2010, the power supply board on this TV died just like 2 other reviewers mentioned below. The capacitors overheated and burst, and since the company went out of business you cannot buy new power supply boards.    To fix it was relatively easy, if you are comfortable soldering that is. I removed the board, which was simple ennough, de-soldered and removed ALL of the capacitors (even the good ones), and replaced them. All told it was a $40 fix and the TV has been working fine for a year now. Still, if you are buying this TV used, beware...    -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------        I managed to find this TV for less than $700, and while it is certainly not as good as a $1500+ Aquos LCD TV, I don't think it's worth the $800 price difference. Like the previous revewer said, I cannot see any particular reason this is so cheap, it is built sturdy, and has all the typical inputs and features of other LCD TV's of this size.    The only problem I have see nso far, is that black levels are not good on this , even for an LCD TV (I have 2 other LCD TV's so I have a good basis for comparison here). Although proper tuning of the settings does alleviate this somewhat (mostly with the gamma corrections setting, plus for me, making it a little BRIGHTER seemed to help).    Also, if you leave the backlight switch on, but not the TV itself, there is a small whine that can be heard. It's close to inaudible, just sound sound of the TV on at mute drowns it out (it's very, very soft), but I suppose it could be annoying to some. My simple solution, turn the backlight switch off when you are done watching it (which you are supposed to do anyway).