Sony KDF-E42A10 42-Inch LCD Rear Projection Television
Great TV To Complete Your Home Theater
I had spent some time researching what kind of TV it was I wanted to blow my money on.  You can't just buy any old TV anymore, you need to research so you can best suit your own needs.  I personally watch a lot of DVD's and play a lot of video games.  So, I needed something that was going to handle games well, and most of all make DVD's look stunning! <br /> <br />The television's design is sleek and stunning.  It only weights about 60-65 pounds so you can move it yourself with ease. <br /> <br />The display is very bright and vibrant.  The TV when you recieve it, has its settings set to contrast and other settings that would make the TV look absolutely magnificent for store displays but will in the long run burn out your bulb faster, and fortunately, those settings aren't the true correct settings you want anyway.  Set the 'vibrant' picture settings to 'standard', you may want to add your tint a few notches over to the right a little bit to get a more true red color, reduce your color a little bit, but in the end it's all just minor adjustments you are going to need to make. <br /> <br />If you watch a lot of DVD's like I do, if you sit far back enough, they look magnificent watching them with progressive scan and component cables.  But if you sit a little closer than you're supposed to like I do, you'll notice all the imperfections that you would see due to the fact that DVD's are not as high in definition as a high definition TV, because DVD's were made to look perfect on standard TV's.  You could see some boxes in some high movement, artifacts here and there, but this TV offers numerous ways to adjust the picture to your liking.  There's DVD players now that 'upconvert' with technology a DVD that's got a 480i resolution, to 720p by adding lines and throwing out some of the noise on a DVD.  But with this TV it's not necessary with the 'Digital Reality Creation' feature (DRC).  This helps to upconvert the image to be somewhat closer to HD standards, by adding 4x the lines (twice as many horizontally and then twice as many vertically).  This isn't going to give you a high definition image mind you, but you can use this function to adjust the clarity and 'reality' of the image to smooth out imperfections and artifacts that are created by a lot of movement.  There's even a function on the TV that lets you adjust just how much 'noise' you want filtered from a picture.   <br /> <br />Now, all this could be a pain if you were to have to continually make these kinds of adjustments between different inputs on your set and your digital/HD cable, but this TV will save your presets for each input.  It may take you some time to get the best possible picture that you want from each component, but the time is worth it because you only need to do it once for each function and it saves them forever. <br /> <br />Great set for a great price.  Worth the cash.