Excellent Picture for a projection. Reinforced Top for Components

No built in HD Decoder

Great TV, I'm sure the HD decoder will come down in price eventually. When I first bought this TV, one of the boards had to be replaced because when turned on I would get a purple distorted screen.

Great picture, no visible scan lines at even 2 feet away.

Although remote is great, it didn't learn my cable box fully.

I'm the kind of person that does extensive research on anything I buy. This purchase was no different. I purchased the TV at the end of January, but started looking in November. I went to several stores, several times and looked at everything. My first dilemna was whether or not to go widescreen. I decided after much thought, that since the vast majority of what I watch is still in 4:3 format, I would ne better served with the traditional size. I looked at Toshiba, Hitachi, Sony, and more. If I was going with a non-HD ready set, I probably would have chosen the Hitachi. I'm very glad I chose this set, however.

The picture is just phenominal. Everyone that sees it comments that it is the best RPTV picture they have ever seen. No scan lines at even 2 feet away! DVD's look incredible(I highly recommend a progressive scan player with this set).

I got it locally for $2899 delivered and set up, which was also the best price I could find.

I highly recommend this set to anyone who wants a little taste of the future now, and has the extra money to spend.

Excellent HDTV and 480P

poor built in line doubler. No 3:2 pulldown

First off,.. buy the DVDO Iscan line doubler. I did, and it dramatically improved the image on this TV. I opted to do this over getting a progressive scan DVD player. It improves the image on everything that I kick it; DSS, DVD, S-VHS.
I have the DTC-100 RCA HDTV satellite and 1080i images look stunning. Some of the images I've seen on HBO and PBS are the best HD images I've seen on any TV. This TV automatically compresses the raster on HDTV sources.It's incredible how RPTV's have improved on their contrast. This TV handles contrast excellently, I can't say that about older or cheaper RPTV's.
Another excellent source is the Sega Dreamcast hooked through a Sega VGA box. The Dreamcast puts out 480P so the graphics are the best i've seen. Even better than PS2.
DVD's are incredible too. Which brings about my one negative. This TV allows you to compress the raster on 480i images, but not on 480P images. So from a progressive source you can't play anamorphic DVD's at their full resolution and compress the raster with the format button to imulate a 16X9 TV.

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No other HDTV's, 45" 6 year old Mitsubishi

The picture when presented with a good source is perfect. the colors are real and contrast is clear.

When watching our local cable feed you unfortunately see the cable signals weaknesses more than on a lesser set.

We were perplexed as to whether to go widescreen or not but given that the majority of day to day viewing is still old format and that you quickly forget about the small absence of data on the top and bottom on feature length DVD's this TV is perfect. My friend went widescrenn (PIONEER) and the blank or streched images on regular TV are much more bothersome (not to mention the picture). My Mitubishi tube has been abused for years by my kids. It will be hard for me to buy any other brand. I just hope they don't start calling them Chrysler TV's with the pending buy out.

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Mitsubishi 40" tube

Great Picture-sharp & bright, Easy Set-up,Great selection of inputs front &back. SVideo for computer display is incredible! Easy to set up & use remote for other devices

speakers are OK, but I'm using surround sound receiver anyway

Highly reccomend this product

WOW! Picture cleaner than most tubes and wide viewing radius.

May be too large for my room, but who cares. I am IN the picture... Not crazy about the blue screens between flipping channels, but it's my first projection TV

I read a lot about the different brands before I purchased and Mitsubishi shows that as a pioneer in the projection TV market that they continue to dominate. I saw the TV at three major stores in a room full of televisions and its picture just stood out! Cable TV stations are a lot blurrier than my old Sony 32" tube, but DVDs under progressive scan knock your socks off... I just may look into that line doubler I am hearing about... Well worth the bucks. If you want a 4:3 TV, now is the time to buy this bad boy since I understand that ALL of Mitsubishi's products for next year are 16:9 format...

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HD and component inputs
can display anamorphic widescreen DVDs
excellent picture

speakers
remote control is small, functions are pretty basic

This is my first big screen projection TV. I was very happy with my 36" Mitsubishi, but wanted a bigger screen and HDTV-upgradeable. VS-50805 has multiple S-video inputs (one in front) along with HD and component video inputs. DVD video is excellent using component inputs, especially anamorphic video. The salesman told me it has a 'zoom' function, but in reality it is only a "Format" button which gives you the ability to convert 4:3 image to widescreen. The only practical application is when your DVD player is set to display 16:9, then use the widescreen function to squash the anamorphic picture down to a letterboxed display. Result is a 16:9 widescreen anamorphic picture displayed on 4:3 screen, and picture is outstanding. Manual states that HDTV video will be displayed as widescreen, and you will not be able to use Format button to expand pciture to 4:3. My cable and DirecTV pictures are not as good, the big screen really shows the negative aspects of those formats(particularly cable). I ran my cable through a signal amplifier and it helped. A couple of other things I really like. Unused inputs can be temporarily turned off so when you cycle through the inputs you see only those inputs that are actually in use. Also, it is on wheels and very well balanced. It makes it very easy to roll it away from the wall and work behind it.

Overall, this TV gives me exactly what I was looking for: a 4:3 picture for cable and satellite viewing combined with the ability to watch widescreen anamorphic DVDs.

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great picture. scan lines? fagedaboud-it...

not widescreen, needs more inputs

this tv has a great picture. my local stereo shoppe wants
me to buy a 60" wide-screen toshiba with the dvdo with
3:2 pull down. nice set and i want the wide screen as i watch beau-coup movies on ld and dvd.

i also play video games to a fault so 4:3 two years ago
made sense.
to conclude: the picture on this set(marantz ld player
thru composite outputs, mcintosh mvp-831{all bow} thru
s-vid) is just perfectimissimo...no scan lines, rich
saturated color and no problems functionally for
the last two years.

i'm sorry but i LOVE THIS SET...

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who cares???

Top of cabinet good for setting components on. Four sets of A/V inputs (3 on the back). Plus Component and HDTV inputs.

PIP will not allow swapping of two cable signals.
Digital signal processing sucks on all 480 signal sources.
Sound a little weak.

They are coming to take the set away in a couple of days. The digital picture gave me headaches. I did not have acces to a HDTV signal source, so I was using cable, DVD and Laser Disc.

Watching a baseball game was sickening. On a closeup of the pitcher's face, it looked like he smeared wax on his face. Course fabrics such as tweed were all smeary. Even my DVD discs had a smeary look. This is especially true with moving objects.

Of the digital sets I looked at (Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, Toshiba) I believe this is the best one; I just didn't like digital processing. It would have been nice to be able to turn off processing to get 480i programing, but the only choice is 480p or 960i. One thing to watch for is what video the dealer uses. Everyone but Sears was playing animated movies -- ANTZ, BUG'S LIFE, TARZAN -- which do not let you see the loss of detail in textures and facial features. I asked to be able to watch something else but no one would comply.

I would suggest that anyone who uses normal signal sources not buy a digital TV -- this one or any other. Stay with analog until HDTV signals are commonplace, if they ever are. (Yes I know Congress passed the law, but a couple decades ago they also passed a law requiring us to be on the metric system by now.)

I like to be able to watch two programs at once and expected to be able to swap back and forth between them, but if you have to cable inputs, A&B (and B has to be primary on this set), then if you're watching B you can get PIP of A, but if you then swap PIP to the main screen, the PIP view will go black and an annoying message will be displayed across the bottom of the screen saying that you cannot have PIP of signal B when using A. This message stays on for a long time, at least a couple of minutes. Then it goes off for a couple of minutes. Then another message appears which says you must change the channel on the PIP within two minutes or PIP will be turned off. This does not happen with any other input source for PIP, so I suppose I could have run the second signal through my VCR and used its tuner, but I thought the point of having two tuner PIP was so that you wouldn't have to do that!

Colors tended to the blue side even with the color temperature set for the most red.

Small amps for internal speakers weren't too good. Yes I could run it through my receiver, but I don't want to have to do that all the time.

The dealer didn't hassle me at all about wanting to return the set and I already have my refund. Going to buy an analog Hitachi 53" from Sears next week. The Mitsubishi 50703 was a close second but it had the same PIP problem.

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Picture

None at present time

Have had this set for about a month now and was very reluctant to purchase a projection set as my Toshiba 35" model had such a great picture and I heard a projection set would not give me as good a picture but I wanted a larger screen and boy were they wrong this set is great. I purchased it locally from Douglas T.V at what I thought was a great price $25.00. with 3 year warranty. they came out set it up along with my receiver, and VCR.
from the minute I turned it on I was thrilled at the quality of the picture even tho my input is cable not a dish.
But the best part came last week when I purchased a Toshiba 5109 DVD player this totally blew me away.
If you are in the marked for a projection set this size you can't go wrong. The toughest decision I had to make was if I should go widescreen or not I am pleased with my decision as all the widescreens I looked at did not impress me unless the signals were digital and in widescreen format I do not like the stetched out look.
my system is as follows
Denon 2800 receiver
Toshiba VCR
Toshiba 5109 DVD player
Pioneer 300 disk CD Player
All Jamo Speakers
NEC Powered Subwoofer

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