Price Paid:  $2000.00 from best buy

Summary:
I can't believe that my friend's advice became true, he told me that quality of Toshiba is not good before purchasing Toshiba TV. I purchased my Toshiba 43H70 HDTV almost 2 years ago and am partially lucky its picture tube gone bad before its 2 years warranty which is 10 days, so that I save 261 dollars for parts, but I still spent 355 dollars for labor and visiting fee. I am worry about other 2 tubes' life, replace any of them will cost $600.

Strengths:
beautiful picture

Weaknesses:
quality

Price Paid:  $1999.00 from Best Buy

Summary:
This is the second model of this tv I have owned. The first died within 3 months the replacement TV died after a year. Repairman admitted that Toshiba had a known problem(color guns) with this model. Toshiba would not stand behind the TV, would not return calls, toshiba service manager would not speak to me. Thankfully Best Buy stood behind their Extended Warranty Plan and is going to replace the tv for a second time with a comparable Sony model!

Strengths:
No strenghts

Weaknesses:
Poor quality, Extremely poor customer service.

Price Paid:  $1800.00 from online

Summary:
Ive had this TV for over a year and I love it. It's easy to tweak if you want to, but it was really ok right out of the box. I would by another (only bigger and 16x9)! The picture quality is superb on all but the worst signals. Even the sound is amazing and I didnt plan on using the sound at all! The super reflective screen is my only real complaint. I would suggest the stand too, but thats just my preference.

Strengths:
Excellent Picture, back lit remote, Good sound, price, tweakability.

Weaknesses:
Super reflective screen.

Price Paid:  $1899.00 from Howards TV w/2 door

Summary:
I chose this set based on the size of our family room and it was a wonderful fit. If you go overboard and buy a huge set for a smallish room, you will be disappointed with standard definition resolution(NTSC). Bigger isn''t always better especially when viewing compressed cable or sat signals at a close distance as it will only magnify those imperfections. Here''s a tip... that TV will look twice as big in your house as it does in that huge store!!! The 4x3 vs 16x9 debate was a no-brainer for me as I watch a lot sports and older movies which are predominately still 4x3. The best part of this tv is the way it handles HD. It performs what''s referred to as "the raster squeeze", which means while you have bars across the top and bottom, you aren''t losing any vertical lines of resolution. There is simply nothing there...... it''s blank, and if the room is darkened you don''t even notice those bars. My next TV (4-5 years) will be widescreen if the trend continues in that direction, but for now we really enjoy the versatility of this set. With HD, a directivo, stand a lone tive, and a dvd player hooked up I running low on inputs and it handles them all very well. As mentioned before, be sure to get that contrast turned down asap. Those default settings are rediculously high and could lead to some serious repairs down the road. My contrast is at 45, sharpness 30, brightness 50... color to taste. :)

Strengths:
HD verical compression (raster squeeze) Remote is excellent Spatial speakers perform admirably(I don''t always turn on my a/v system)

Weaknesses:
only 1080i and 480i native highly reflective screen

Price Paid:  $1475.00 from Best Buy

Summary:
Sometimes we stumble across the real gems while searching for other diamonds. That is what happened to me with this set! I threw in the towel on a Sony Wega 32" set and needed to upgrade to something, ANYTHING, other than another poor quality Sony set. I was about to buy a Panasonic 32" HDTV set when I saw this little (little?) set on display at Best Buy. The last thing I was planning on doing was buy a rear projection set. Overall I am pleased with this set. I must admit it is large for my den as I can see artifacts from DirecTV, and let''s face it - you can have too large of a picture. Ultimately it will be moved to a larger room, and when I view a 16x9 DVD - I am glad I have the extra screen size. I plan on buying a progressive scan DVD, but won''t buy a cheapie... they just don''t cut it. Sound is definitely good, and setting convergence is easy. I do wish this set gave a little more latitude to the video adjustments as the 3 preset and 1 user just does not cut it, especially when you can''t even adjust sharpness or color temp on them. The only other issue I can take is something which can be an issue - an anti-reflective screen would have been nice. All in all, for the price I paid for this model as the store made room for the newer 43H71, I can''t really complain.

Strengths:
Exceptional video at a fantastic price. Good sound. Flexible inputs. Illuminated remote. Easy convergence setting.

Weaknesses:
Polished screen can be an issue - I don''t hold it against the set. Needs more user adjustment to the video preset settings.

Similar Products Used:
None really similar to this set.