Akai PT-46DL10

Summary: I was very pleased with this television when we first bought it. Not only was it very nice and sleek looking, the picture and audio were quite impressive for the budget price and with the addition of specialty cables, this television only improved. About half a year in we started to see a green line across the screen, and it won't go away. We've been in touch with Akai numerous times to get this fixed, and everytime we call we are told that a service technician will arrive in 10 days. 4 months, hours on the phone and many phone calls later - still no service technician. Our only option is to return it, which is a huge inconvenience. We'll be switching it for a new TV - NOT AKAI.

Summary: I've read a number of reviews for this TV and many of them described terrible sound, a horrible picture for non-HD stations, and numerous problems that couldn't be fixed.

The price and features were just too aluring so I went to Costco and picked one up for $1200 CAD. Figuring if there was a problem I could take it back withing 30 days no questions asked.

I've had the TV for almost a week now and I love it! DVD's look great! Xbox looks great! The standard broadcast isn't bad, but what do you expect? Any of the large TV's are going to show the flaws of SB. The sound seems very good to me and most will have surround sound anyway so that's a non issue.

The lack of inputs is annoying when trying to hook up a number of components, but I'm just going to go by a multi input bar and problem solved.

You can spend twice as much money and get a better contrast ratio and more inputs, but that's entirely a personal prefferance.

Based on what you get for the price I have to say this is very close to a 10!