Couple of thoughts:
I bought one, so have been using it in various ways over the last few weeks...
Viewing angle is better than most RPTVs, but still not 180 deg. Brightness is outstanding. I have it in a room which is 50% huge picture windows, and can watch it full daytime, with NO glare...
That was me... they got me a new one in 4 days... great TV. $7000 is a bit steep for it, but with no burnin, and no real convergence issues, it has been worth it. And, best of all, it has a feature which allows you to scale down the screen size to ANYTHING below 60" if say your fiance HATES Big...
I should start off by saying that i have bought one of these, so take the bias as you will...
Mine came broken... alas, so I didn't get to fairly evaluate it, but I did spend some time at another dealer looking at one set up nicely and here are my quick thoughts... when I get my set, i will...