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I hate to say it, but I haven't looked that closely at the HD TVs. From the ones I have looked at Sony, Sharp and Toshiba units hae looked the best to me. I know that is going to start a fuss, TV brand loyalty seems to be as bad if not worse than the old Ford vs Chevy fights. As I said in an earlier post, use your eye: What looks best to you? Different models will have different color temperatures and or differences that affect the way the image looks to you. That is the most important thing, it doesn't matter if one set had a 2000:1 contrast ratio while the other has a 1000:1 ratio, what matters is how the image looks to you.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks. We will probably decide between Sony and Toshiba.

We know 3 couples, who are friends and inherited money for so called home theatres. Each of these so called home theatres cost over $10,000. Two of the flat panel LCDs did not have as good of a picture as our old Dinosaur. The other one might have a comparable picture. Within a year after the new wore off, these families aren't really watching their theatre tv with the exception of football games.

One couple recently removed their so called home theatre system and are using the sound system with their older sterio system. The wife had a plain jane 20 inch tv installed in her kitchen, and it serves mainly as background noise. They now watch tv in their bedroom with their decade old Toshiba. They were 49er and Raider fans, and they said they didn't need to watch losers on a 10k set up.