TV for Christmas

For a minute there I thought you were a die hard Sony lover till I saw your comments about the audio. I was just about to mention that Sony does make their fair share of crappy products.

The Toshiba I got is a 27" flat screen. It looked better than the 27" flat screen Sony and Panasonic it was sitting between. I spent about 30 minutes playing with all 3 to adjust settings and stuff and the Toshiba just looked clearer and had a more natural color balance. All 3 were running off of coax, that's not to say the cable splitting wasn't part of the problem. That's a problem with in-store TVs, not all of them are connected equally.

Anyhow, I hope I don't have problems with my TV but I ended up getting the 4 year PSP last night just in case......I don't know that my TV is great, I can only hope.

At the same time your experience with Toshiba might have just been a single lemon. Every manufacturer, no matter how good, has some bad products get into customers' hands. I wouldn't necessarily swear by Sony, though, as I have also known people with Sony TVs to have problems with them. Your individual success with any TV depends on a number of factors.

I do definitely give Sony credit for many good features such as their scan line compression (whatever they call it). It's a nice idea to make a sharper image when watching DVDs, but its also only available on 32+" WEGA systems. No-go for the 27". They also are nice enough to toss in fixed and variable audio outputs on their WEGA line, something that few other TVs in the 27" category come with. Panasonic and Toshiba offer it in their 27" flat screens but I don't think many or any others do for the 27".

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