Hitachi Ultravision 37HDL52 37-Inch LCD HDTV
Highly Impressed
Having done a serious amount of home work, I had decided to pull the trigger on this set until I stumbled over these two reviews below.  At first, I was baffled by this \\"freeze\\" concept. Whether it is DVI or HDMI, it is just a better connection. How could that cause a \\"freeze\\" on the same content that is transmitted normally through, say,  a component out. This so-called problem simply does not make any sense to me unless there is a physical issue with the cable itself.  So, I called Hitachi about the \\"issue\\" on 6/3. A rep. (Jim from IL) was shocked upon hearing this. He said that it has never been such a issue documented.  The rest is history. I have been watching this TV for 3 days now thru. DVI connection. It simply lives up to my expectation based on my home work. The S-IPS (super in-pane switch) definitely makes a difference on the response time in viewing the fast motion objects. It is still not in the plasma territory, but as close to it as it gets from LCD. It has a noticeably better handling on the image details at a high speed than both a 40\\" Sony and a Samsung LCD. It is also better than a 37\\" Sharp LCD. I really don't think it is a fair comparison between SIPS and the 95% of the rest knowing a little bit of how it works.  I was actually trying to buy a Hitachi's Director Series' 32HDLX51 due to its AS-IPS (Advanced Super In-Plane Switching), cream of the crop, but I need a bigger size than 32\\". There are some other makers like LG and Syntax who also have this technology licensed from Hitachi and are quite cheaper. But ironically, their lcd TVs flopped on another crucial aspect of TV-the signal processing (the \\"decoder\\") which sadly have not effectively demonstrated the strength of S-IPS.