Sony KDF-60XS955 60-Inch HD-Ready LCD Projection Television
First Impression: A great new model Sony HDTV
First impresssion:  I love it.  The HD picture is absolutely gorgeous and, happily, the SD picture seems to be very much improved over what the Sony HDTV's produced with their 2003 models. The TV has two tuners, including a built-in digital HDTV tuner, and it will accept a \\"cable card\\" so you don't need a box.<br /><br />The manual leaves something to be desired.  Many subjects that should be discussed in detail are barely mentioned.  I wonder if the manual-writers actually watched or adjusted this TV before writing about it.<br /><br />Example: The \\"Live Color\\" setting merits only a sentence or two in the manual but, as the default setting from the factory, it made all the white areas of the picture swim crazily, like a 1960's \\"psychedelic\\" poster until, through trial and error, I found it buried in \\"Advanced\\" video settings and turned it off.<br /><br />There are two coax cable inputs, \\"VHF/UHF\\" and \\"Cable\\".  I think the former is mostly for attaching an external antenna and your cable from the wall really has to go into the other one but this is not made clear.  In any case, cable attached to \\"VHF/UHF\\" will not tune to very many channels and there is no setting in the menus to alter this.  The manual is not helpful on this subject.<br /><br />\\"Twin View\\" is great -- very useful, very intuitive.<br /><br />The TV's styling, with speaker \\"wings\\" out on either side of the screen, is very beautiful.<br /><br />Sony had a lot of trouble with lamp and lamp-starter problems in the 2003 models, which they believe they fixed in mid-2004.  We can be hopeful that, in the new models, they have fixed it for good.<br /><br />All I have right now are my first impressions and they are very, very good.  I love this TV!