Dan, I just had my set done by Michael, a Tosh 50", the difference was dramatic. The level of detail in dark scenes was poor and now WOW. I think I scared Mike with my jumping around as we watched Band of Brothers episode "Carentan" with a night scene in which I pointed out all the things I...
I put off getting LA Woman for the very reasons cited here if any Doors album deserved first class DVD-A treatment.... My interesting Doors story- shortly after getting LA Woman a friend of mine, being a Doors fan, played the snot out of it. He had a two year old little brother, and one rainy...
My 50hdx82 Tosh is great. Had it two months now, no problems other than the "hiss" problem from the speakers, which was fixed the other day. I'm going to have a ISF calibration done soon as well. Good set, reasonable price.
Had mine for three weeks now and I'm very happy. I reccommend AVIA or failing that the Sound & Vision version is similar and may be more readily available and cheaper to boot. Get Michael TLV to calibrate your set for you once you have had a chance to get it set up, tweaked with AVIA and broken...
I am a new 50hdx82 owner and I have a much better picture at home than I saw in the store, the cable signal in the store was bad in a word and is much better than i had hoped for at home. Get the remote in the store and knock down brightness and contrast by half at least and tweak it from there...