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4.5 stars
"PRICE TO PERFORMANCE CHAMP!!!"
Pros: Excellent connectivity options. Good color reproduction. Great progressive scan and upconversion performance. Excellent response time. Good contrast ratio. Full 1080P performance.
Cons: Pedestrian design. Thick bezel. Flimsy stand. Mediocre sound. Clunky remote.
Summary: This is an excellent TV for the price. I compared the performance of this TV with the Samsung LN-T4665F and was amazed to see it give up very little to the highly rated Samsung. HD looks amazing and SD isn't too bad either. Color reproduction is good, but tends to be a bit skewed towards green right out of the box. The TV has several options to save user settings and once tweaked, it performed amazingly well. Skin tone reproduction was excellent after tweaking it and then I was really able to crank up color saturation. There was no ghosting when watching the last race scene in "The Fast and the Furious". The contrast ratio practically is quite good but low contrast detail is sometimes lost especially in darker areas. Of course the Sony KDL-40XBR2 doesn't have to worry about this TV usurping it's title as the style champ. The thick 2 inch bezel running around the screen is quite hard on the eyes. The stand on which the monitor sits is quite flimsy, but serviceable. Westinghouse REALLY needs to rethink the remote control supplied with this TV. It's a clunky beast and is quite hard to navigate. On the plus side, with so many connectivity options to choose from you're never going to run out of ports. It performs excellently as a computer monitor, but you'll need a DVI to HDMI adapter to get the best. The VGA connection is good and does provide a good image, but with a DVI to HDMI adapter connection, fonts on the screen just jumped out and bit me. Haven't tried gaming on this screen yet, but I'm sure it'll be just fine. I highly recommend this HDTV. At this price you can't go wrong.
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