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Ok for lamps: the a2000's & a2020 have a life spand of 8,000 hours but the XBR's are just 4,000 hours

Viewing angle, I have noiced that Auto1 helps with off angle viewing, in the manuel it says 65 deg. L/R horizontal (130 total) & 30 deg. U/D vertical (60 total)

STD looks good at 7ft, HD is way cool. I have be watching things (HD) that I would never watch before. STD: Some channel look better such as my local (std) are real bad but that this Not the TV just the channel. National Geaograpth looks very good. The only time I have seen artifacting is when watching 'Deadliest Catch' on Std discovery channel when a large wave hits, splashs & fills the tv screen.

The Blacks are good not as good as CRT but better then Plasam & LCD. for more you can read my review... One thing I need to update on it is that the color 'green' has gotten a little better with more hours on the lamp (200hours)

http://reviews.cnet.com/Sony_KDS_50A2000/4864-6484_7-31901230.html?ctype=msgid&messageSiteID=7&messageID=2388686&cval=2388686&tag=uolst

I like sci-fi so the blacks are a must & there good. I have watch my dvd's of BSG, Lost, StarGate: Alantis, From the Earth to the Moon, & right now I have Enterprise on. It is great, the shadow detail is as good as I was getting on my sony HD Crt, maybe a little better.

Depth is not that much, my A/V is more deep then the TV & only 3" deeper then my sub, don't let 3" or so stop you from buying a great tv or any good RP tv.

The tv is great in the day time, I use Auto1 in the day time & then Min iris late night viewing. There is NO TV that can block glare from the sun, I have a samsung LCD & when the sun is beating on it all I see is a brite whiteish blob that is the sun. If you do most of your viewing in the day time & have lots of large windows that have no blinds/curtons look at the XBR's they have the more powerful 180wt. lamps

Since they have a very limited budget and can't afford the XBR's!
WARNING: Don't get sucked into buying low budget 72 inch DLP TV'S!
Do yourself a favor and ask PROFESSIONALS, you will find that the XBR is considered one of the finest TV's available today. I would prefer a QUALITY LYCOS image at 50 inches over a low budget 72 inch DLP. Go on the AVS forum and see what the EXPERTS say about one of the best TV's ever made: The XBR2.Put that in your pipe and smoke it Steweeeeee!!! Maybe one day you too can afford the best!
BTW: PLEASE tell me what narcotics you use when watching that TV, this way I can buy a Vizio and think I am watching a Pioneer!!

We do know what we are talking about. SXRD's have NO problems. The older XBR1 had some problems & now have been fixed in the XBR2/3 & A20x0's.

Samsung RP have problems w/ the light engine tunnel collapsing.

They generally have no facts to back up their claims. They go on hear-say evidence.

Anyways, to answer one or two of the original posters questions, I spent an entire evening with a friend's new 50" SXRD, and after doing a little self-calibrating, I came to one conclusion: It's stunning. Plasma is claimed to have better blacks, but I was impressed by the blacks of the SXRD. On Charter Cable, the standard-def channels looked really, really good. I'm very picky, and standard-def was completely acceptable. And as someone pointed out, HD was amazing. The TV is deeper than a true flat-panel LCD or Plasma, but it's not bad. Maybe 12" deep total. Speakers sounded pretty good. Brilliant bright picture, and if you wanted to really burn the bulb bright, you can choose the "Vivid" picture mode that makes everything artifically bright.

Not only rob the bank so you can afford a REAL TV but I also suggest psychiatric help and a class in the english language, particularly spelling. Steweeeee! I thought I was nuts till I started reading your posts! You blow me away! FACTS speak louder trhan words Steweeeee so I challange you to show me a link to ANY site that in any way indicates that a Toshiba TV is in the same league as PANASONIC let alone SONY or PIONEER. My friend, lets face facts: You wanted to SAVE MONEY. YOU DID. YOU OWN A TOSHIBA. ITS AN "AVERAGE" TV. It never was and never will be considered a high end monitor. If you choose to remain delusional and have 25 morons that agree with you then PLEASE invite me to those parties since the hallucinagenic drugs your using actually make a LOW BUDGET TV look as good as the best in the business.
I also wonder when Toshiba will make an "attractive" TV They remind me of my 1998 Hitachi RP TV.
I await the Acid Trip Invite STEWEEEE!!!!!!!!
I WANNA SAVE MONEY TOO!!

You have never seen the picture quality of my Toshiba you have no idea what I paid for it so your opinion means nothing that goes for the rest of you folks that must be paid by sony. The only thing I can add to what I have already stated is I paid $4600 + stand so dont call it a cheap t.v.THE FACT IS. J.V.C idla seems to have the same beautiful picture. and Fact the new Pioneer Elite Plasma blows away sony the best picture of any t.v. out there I know I'am crazy now that I'am retired and have nothing to do but drive you cnet folks nuts and almost every day check out b.b. etc for the latest toys Yes Sony is a great t.v. I have owned 2 of them but Fact My Toshiba has more detial I rest my case so please take a chill pill. in closing FACT IS All the new major brand t.v. will give you 70m.m. film quality so why do we argue because its FUN FUN steweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Just had to chime. Lost at on-line poker after 3 minutes cant wait to play with DOYLE BRUNSON STEWEEEE

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"CR Quick Recommendations:" Consumer Reports:

Best of the biggest:

Mitsubishi WD-65732 , $2800
Mitsubishi WD-65831 , $3000
Sony KDS-R60XBR2 , $3800
Toshiba 62HM196 , $2500
Toshiba 62MX196 , $2900

"Almost all the TVs in the largest size category are worth considering, especially if you find them at good prices. This Sony and the two Toshiba sets are among the best rear-projection models we've ever tested, with excellent picture quality on all types of programs. All three have 1080p resolution and two or three HDMI inputs. While it's pricey, the Sony LCoS TV performed beautifully and came with an extra lamp that's worth a few hundred dollars. The two Toshiba sets use single-chip DLP technology. The higher price of the 62MX196, part of the Cinema Series, gets you a black finish and a few more features, including an Ethernet jack for connecting the TV to a home network, and user-adjustable color controls."

by EXCON - 3/29/07 5:58 AM
In reply to: BILL COMING FROM YOU ITS AN HONOR KISS KISS by stewart norrie
Show me the link!! Show me ANYTHING that even REMOTELY indicates that a LOW BUDGET Toshiba can perform like a high end TV.
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ANYTHING:
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SonyXBR2, at $3800.00 rated a score of 80.
Toshiba, at $2500.00 rated a 78.
I believe that REMOTELY indicates its performance.

I had my own car stereo business back in the mid 70s I sold only stereos that I knew for fact would be reliable, sound great with no problems and good factory backing. Also read a lot of consumer report magazines, every thing they rated excellent was pure crap especially bloupunk. I would not sell that to my dog either Just punch in 72HM195 in your computor and read customer reviews 5 star baby and the only flaw you will see is the orgional lamp was factory defective recalled which many customers did not know about Also Toshiba customer is better than Sony gave me an extra year on lamp warrenty Anyway old chap isn"t it fun to get mad as hell I love it Just like Poker and funny part is WHO CARES all fun PEACE PEACE But to make you happy I will buy my doggie a Sony so he can go blind steweeeeeeeeee the freak

BUST BALLS!!
I could give a rats behind what Steweeeee or anyone else thinks, buys or sells! It fun watching all the time and effort spent on trying to prove some MORONIC point on a TV!!

"YAHOO" or "MSN."

THE HDTV's are "LCoS". Not criticizing, but you really don't want to come across like STEWEEEEEE do you???

river.

My first Gen SXRD 50" is the best TV I've every owned.
I can see the picture from my kitchen on a 170 degree
angle and about 30 feet away. Sunlight really doesn't
affect it,since the screen doesn't have a mirror finish
like a lot of other HDTV's.They use the mirror effect to make the picture seem brighter,when in fact,you get
such a "Glare" in the light,that you need sunglasses
in your own home.LOL. The picture adjustments are so
vast,that I sometimes feel I need to call for a video
professional to adjust the picture properly. Not that
it's a problem,it's fantastic,the amount of picture
enhancements. Sony did the SXRD's right,even the first
generation was superb. The only caveat,is the fact that
my older model will not input 1080p thru the HDMI,but
it still upconverts any 1080i signal through HDMI into
progressive. So in the end,it's sort of the same,I guess.