I'll second Mike - I have owned the 205 for more than a year, and have been very satisfied with its performance. It's no audiophile system, but does give you far more than the built-in speakers of your TV would. If your room is fairly small and you're not an audiophile, and it's your first 5.1...
Sorry - it's just that that site has info on the "evil pop" which can cause a sudden shift in the color reproduction of that model of panny. The answer is to do something with the greyscale, so Michael is right - if you have been putting off a professional calibration, now might be time...
start with antennaweb.org and/or titantv.com - both will tell you what you can get over the air (OTA) with what kind of antenna. I got a 80" radio shack antenna $45, stuck it in my attic (backwards!) and got a few stations - moved it to the roof on a 10' pole and pointed it the right way and got...
Can you go up to 53"? Physically, the 53wx53 isn't all that much bigger than the 47" (width and hight wise) but does give you a noticably bigger picture. Cost difference is only a couple hundred dollars - pennies a day over the life of the set! My wife actually talked me into going up to the 53...
all the wx53s have it. the wx49s do not, and I believe the wx52s lack the dvi port. Make sure you are getting a wx53 and you are all set (I have the big brother 53wx53)
The settings are stored for the three PIC MODES under Picture (Vivid, Standard, Cinema) - and the set remembers which PIC Mode you set for each input. So, you set a different Pic Mode for each input (after making sure they're more or less identical) and then tweak each pic mode as needed for...
Hi Mike - I have your set's big brother (53") and mine is a whopping 2 weeks old. Don't forget you need to converge (setup) on each input - you will want to go ahead and do the user mode converge right out of the box (afer a few times it hardly takes more than a minute or two) for whatever...
It's all about what you watch. For under $400 (under $300 if you have a decent antenna on your roof already) *if* you live where you can get HD/DTV over the air (see www.titantv.com and/or www.antennaweb.org) you may be able to get fox/abc/cbs/nbc, plus Smallville on WB and the PBS HD demo loop...
I had optical between my old dvd player & amp for over a year - works fine, sounds good. New progressive DVD player only had coax digital connect, amp has both - plugged in a digital cable (nothing fancy - $20 or so) works fine, sounds good :D I'll be able to reuse the optical when my HDTV...
I've got the 53wx53 - had it a week now, I'm pretty comfortable with the whole burn in issue. We watch in Just mode for 4:3 material, and the set is turned down to a reasonable contrast/brightness on ALL the inputs. One thing I did get (by accident, I didn't select it for this feature) is a...
I got the same panny (53wx53) on Tuesday... and I've only just now had a chance to view a widescreen DVD via a progressive player on it. WOW. Monsters Inc. It was like watching a movie I'd never seen before. Colors I'd never seen, amazing detail, widescreen. Nice. We were having fun reading...