Give your TV a new home from IKEA
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4.0 stars
"Picture quality and thats all that matters"
Pros: PICTURE QUALITY. Also lots of bells and whistles
Cons: None of those bells and whistles work right. DVR. TV Guide. Net Command. Cable Card problems.
Summary: Nothing works right on this set. The TV Guide software update that would have made the DVR functional will not be out until 2006, Net Command is garbage at controlling other components, I work at a retailer for tv's and we got a bunch of them back because Cable Card was too dificult to set up or incompatible with current software. Even te diamond shield screen produces some glare. Etc, Etc,.... I really don't care. The picture is phenominal and it has enough component and HDMI inputs to accomodate 4 HD sources above and beyond the cable card slot which I don't use. This thing looks great with its matching stand although the stand is really limited in space. But what about all that stuff at the beginning? It is all fixable because this tv allows you to update the software with a flash card. When Mitsubishi gets its software right with the cable card and the dvr and tv guide I will go download it and life will be complete. Until then I pay $5 a month for an HD DVR from Time Warner and use their Guide feature. You don't like the glare from the Diamond Shield? Then take it off (it literally takes 30 seconds) and you've got the same matte finish screen as Sony, Samsung, jvc, lg, etc. If you want a big screen with a great picture you can't buy anything else close to this set.
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Having owned and used this TV for the last couple months, I entirely agree with the review. I switched from a 58" CRT Pioneer Elite for this TV and noticed a definite improvement in overall picture quallity. I have satellite so all the cable set up is useless for me. I skipped the stand, as it was too small to house my center channel speaker, and instead had one custom made for the TV. That one gives me a cutout for my Def Tech CLR 3000 (sounds MUCH better from floor level than it did on top of my Pioneer), plus two storage cabinettes. One of them I use for miscellaneou stuff, the other for my TT2+ RTI Remote. The cabinette's finish matches the TV's and each enclosure on either side of the opening for my center channel speaker has smoked glass doors. Back to the Mitsu TV. The color, clarity and sharpness are excellent, and depending on the DVD I'm watching, I have the distinct impression of watching something as though right through a window, in other words, almost life-like. I watch very little TV, but at least that signal gets upconverted through my Yamaha receiver to 480i. My primary interest is movies, and I would say this set definitely shines with DVDs, either through its component output or through the HDMI output. I'd say it's a very close finish between them, with the S video output coming in a distinct and definite third place, so much that I seldom if ever use that output. Will this be my last TV ever? Doubtful. But it is the best I've ever had--and I'ved owned several, some for only a couple years. For now, for my DVD watching preferences, I'd say it's VERY, VERY good. And lastly, I haven't noticed any "rainbow effects," and I believe I'm a fairly critical watcher, or "observer," when it comes to judging the technical qauality of what I'm watching.
