Westinghouse LVM-42W2 42-Inch 1080p LCD Video Monitor
Avoid! Or if you dare buy it, save your receipt!
I bought this as a replacement for an older 42\\" Sony Grand Wega that worked perfectly fine. I plugged in this unit and at first it was great! The picture is AMAZING. Yes, it blows away any other TVs picture quality by far. You can also output all your PC games to this with a DVI cable to 1920x1200. I play Final Fantasy XI on this at that resolution in widescreen.    The first negative is the remote is worthless. It's the worst thing EVER. I've owned dozens of remotes in my lifetimes and this one is comparable to the ones you get with a $20 no-name DVD player. The batteries are new. It usually takes me 3 attempts to turn on the unit with the remote. If I want to switch to 'HDMI' or 'AV' I have to get up and actually point the thing right to the sensor. Using a learning remote with this doesn't help that much at all. I've tried three programmable remotes and most of them will not work correctly with this.    Then another extremely annoying 'feature' is that if the display don't not receive a signal with a few seconds, it will power off or go into standby mode.    The last problem is the powerup problem. If you leave the unit off overnight you can come out and turn it on and it does not turn on. You have to unplug the unit from the wall/surge supressor. I emailed Westinghouse and told them I TRIED to plug it in DIRECTLY to the wall and they told me me to plug it into the wall and not into the surge supressor. Obviously they didn't fully read my email.     Then, a big slap in the face is how they dropped the price to one thousand less a few months later. I paid full price and thought that was a good deal!    Fix all the above problems and give it a Sony quality remote and then i'd give it a perfect 5!    10-4-2006 UPDATE:   I still own and use this TV every single day and have always regretted buying this and not going with a better brand such as Sony or Panasonic. Just recently I've noticed two vertical black lines showing up on the display. This is just at the edge ofwhere a 4x3 screen normally shows up. The unit still doesn't power up if I leave it off more than 4 hours. There is also a LOT of greenish tint to movies now. I took a DVD player back thinking the player was bad, definitely not so! I'm now using my service plan to try and fix my problems. The unit is now SUPER CHEAP for a reason! After having owned this for a year I wouldn't give this to my worst enemy.     11/20/2006  I took advantage of my product service plan. They didn't want to touch the thing, so I got a full refund. This product only lasted 6 months!! That's unacceptable. I'm amazed still at all the positive reviews of this unit. I guess I had bad luck with mine. I upgraded to a Samsung 46\\" 1080p LCD for $1300 more. Hopefully i'll have better luck with that. It's too bad that the 1080P display didn't go DOWN it price, but instead went up!