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Originally Posted by radimaging
If you've recently purchased a TV online, I'd appreciate you letting me know of your experience. I've thoroughly read the pro's and con's thread, and now I'd like personal experiences. In particular, please list what web store you used.
Thanks!
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Purchased a Toshiba 57H84 at Amazon.com for $1560, including shipping. It arrived in flawless condition about 10 days later from the East Coast. Eagle shipping took great care to unpack, carry upstairs, wait for it to work, hauled away the packing materials, before I signed anything.
I have a Cox STB connected via component cables (including audio cables), with a co-ax digital cable to the pre/pro unit. A Pioneer Elite 45A is connected via s-video for now.
I can't say enough about this set-up. Even my wife admits the SD signals look better than on her HD Mit 55313. And I'm REALLY surprised at the PQ with just s-video from the DVD.
Another thing this particular set has going for is something call WOW! SRS sound. It takes a stereo signal and processes it into a faux surround sound that makes the sound stage actually wider, while focusing the dialog in the center.
You should be sitting in a sweet spot to get the full effect and the surround is more like from the sides and subtle, but you can clearly here a car move across the front speakers. I have DefTech towers on each side (18" from the display) and SRS somehow tricks my ears into thinking the sound is coming from them. It's amazing, and convenient if you don't want to turn on your audio system just to watch regular programming.
Only down side is the cheezy silver plastic bezel. But with indirect lighting behind the tower speakers, the silver turns dark enough not to matter when watching at night.