I purchased this TV on-line over 18 months ago and I still love it! Unlike a couple other reviewers, I’ve NEVER had a mechanical issue nor does my TV make any buzzing noises. I researched bigscreen TVs at some local retailers before starting my on-line search. It was the feedback of the employees in the electronics dept. that made my decision to go with DLP, over plasma or LCD TVs. All of the employees in the dept owned DLP, specifically Mitsubishi. The addition of the 120 Hertz processor (inside the TV# makes a much bigger difference than you’d think, when comparing one without side by side. Rather than having to deal with an issue of pixel burnout or image fading, which is common to the plasma and LCD televisions as they age, the DLP TVs simply have a bulb #lamp# that burns out. A simple replacement of that bulb and the TV is back up and running with no diminishing quality to the picture AT ALL. The bulb can be purchased on-line. I searched for it by removing my TVs old bulb and casing first and doing a search on the Product Code printed on it. It is sold two ways, bulb only and bulb in a new casing. The old bulb #in its casing# slides out of the back of the tv by simply removing a few screws with a phillip’s head screwdriver. If you opt to buy the bulb only, remove the old bulb from your existing casing and replace with the new bulb. We just had to do this with our TV. Mind you, our TV is running 12 hours a day, on average. We use the heck out of it. I paid under 0.00 for the bulb with UPS 2 Day #Blue Label# delivery included. I feel that is not bad at all to maintain picture perfect quality. Note: If you purchase the bulb in a new casing the price was at least double. Because of the DLP mirror technology, you really do not have any warning that the bulb #lamp) is going out. That would be the only downfall, unless you always had a backup bulb ready to switch out, but it is this same mirror technology that prevents diminishing picture quality. The TV is not able to be mounted but needing a place to store a DVD player, WI Game System, satellite receiver box, etc., why not place the TV on top of an entertainment stand containing these items? The TV is relatively light and only has a depth of like 14″ so it still presents a sleek look. I saved a lot of money buying my TV on-line and have had a wonderful buying and viewing experience ever since! Great picture all the time!

I bought this television from another site and after receiving the TV, it has done nothing but EXCEED my expectations. This is one of the largest TVs out there, if not “the” largest and it’s picture is simply amazing. I have owned this tv for almost a year now and I haven’t experienced a single issue with it. Watching Blu-Ray on this tv is truly a treat and both my PS3 and Xbox 360 look amazing. Even my Nintendo Wii looks great on this tv. The add ons of this tv are very user friendly and switching from inputs could not be easier with the input selection screen used with this tv.

For years, I’ve made do with the same early-1990s-vintage 26-inch tube television set, waiting for the day to arrive when a big television with a great picture would turn up on the market at a decent price. When buying gadgets, it’s really easy to put off a purchase by saying, “It will be better and cost less next year.” Finally I found a screen that made me say, “It will be better and cost less next year, but only a little better and a little less.” It was time to buy.

The specifications for “high definition” top out at 1080p, unless one moves into the theatrical digital market. It looks like cable television signals, broadcast signals, movie discs, and other media all top out at or below 1080p right now, and that no higher-resolution media are planned for the near future. Thus a 1080p screen is as good as it needs to be for the near future.

Television shows are broadcast at 30 frames per second (technically, 29.97), typically interlaced at 60 fields per second. Films are 24 frames per second. For smooth results with television media, a screen needs to run at a multiple of 60 per second. For smooth results from film, a screen needs to run at a multiple of 24 per second. A screen that runs at 120 per second (120 Hz) can show television material smoothly by repeating each field twice, and can show film smoothly by repeating each frame five times. Thus a 120 Hz screen is sufficient for optimal results with media from both television and film.

As for size, bigger is better, until the screen is too large for comfortable viewing, which depends on room size and personal preference.

Another consideration is inputs. This screen has five HDMI inputs, an RGB analog computer input with analog audio, an S-video input, a DTV/TV input, two component video and audio inputs, and an audio output. One of the HDMI and one of the component inputs is on the left edge (as viewed from the front) of the screen, rather than on the back. That’s a lot of inputs; it covers just about any needs I can imagine.

This screen has numerous user-adjustable settings. In most cases, the defaults appear appropriate.

The “picture adjustment” settings include presets for various types of source material; “standard” and “movie” seem like the most useful ones to me. I adjusted the color temperature setting.

The H/V position and size settings are useful. Some television channels have a few pixel rows of jittery garbage; it’s nice to adjust the vertical position to hide them because they’re very distracting. Some channels have a few pixel columns of green on one side or the other; hiding them makes the screen look nicer.

An important adjustment feature is “viewing mode”. This screen has five settings: “normal” (4:3 pictures displayed with black bars on the sides), “wide” (4:3 pictures stretched to the full width of the screen), “zoom” (widescreen pictures scaled proportionally to the full width of the screen, even if that cuts stripes off the top or bottom), “stretch” (widescreen pictures with black bars on the sides are stretched to the full width of the screen), and “panoramic” (the edges of 4:3 images are stretched, but the center is preserved un-stretched).

Since this is my first high-definition screen (other than computer screens), I’m not an ideal judge of image quality in comparison to other sets. To my untrained eye, it looks great, and in the store it looked about as good as other sets of the same size.

The sound quality seems good for built-in speakers, but a fancy screen like this deserves a dedicated sound system.

Since this screen appears to have all the features it needs for the next few years, good quality, and a very low price, it’s a good choice — at least until something even better comes along.

You just have to make up your mind that you want something and g_d will make a way! I got rid of my family because I was sic (sic) and tired of them bitchin’ about wantin’ some foooood! That freed up the money for this monster. Thank you Sony! Thank you! And g_d bless you! Every pixel lights up. That’s what you spends (sic) your money for!