HD capability, adjustability, progressive scan picture, price

Expand mode distortion of images

Fortunately, I have not experienced (knock on wood) any of the problems enumerated by early model owners. I bought it as a demo and it has worked perfectly since it was installed 6 months ago. Now, having read all the problems, I have some fear of them occurring but, at least I know what will need to be done and, comforting as it may or may not be, I know it has happened to others who survived. The points I wanted to make are: nothing else comes close at this price; the progressive scan picture is excellent; the 64 pt. alignment is a hassle but it's worth it; it does have some aspect ratio options-I just wish they could have done a little better job by allowing even more zoom levels; the size of the TV is perfect for a mid-sized room; the inputs and other adjustments are plentiful and work well. Bottom line: It's a good bargain in a HD, progressive scan, 16:9 46" TV. Especially if it doesn't break.

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Zenith 52"

Great look, vivid dvd picture, great size for a mid to small room

none so far

I was on a mission to purchase a hdtv, but I wanted to keep it simple. I wanted to buy a hdtv that filled my living room, but didnt overwhealm the room with it's size. My living room is approx. 11w x 14L. The narrowness of the room made for the challange.
I started looking at the toshiba widescreen 40". The Toshiba has a nice picture, and more features than the Mist., however the picture is to small and it doesnt display a filling look for the room.
So I end up looking at the misti 55" widescreen. Picture was great and the features were minnium. This set was what i was looking for, but the overall size of the unit i felt would have clutted my room. So I went with the 46" and I got at a great price from the Listening room, (they're are the best when it come to learnig about audio/video stuff. They take the time out to make sure you have a clear understanding of the products out today.)
The set is a perfect match for my room, it size and picture look great and it doesnt overwhealm the room. Watching dvd has been a new enjoyment again. The picture fills the room so well. The features on this set are minnium in comprassion to the other sets, but this tv comes with a lifetime warranty back by the manufactor. That to me superseeds all others features another manufactor would give with thier set.

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My first projection hdtv

Brand Name; Bright colorful picture; Compact size

Electrical artifact (wavy vertical oscillations); Power supply problems

I have thoroughly enjoyed this set ever since I purchased it in January. The picture is beautiful for a projection television. However, after two months of television veiwing, the picture went blank. The set was repaired with a new power supply board that was ordered from Mitsubishi. Rumor is from the repair shop that the Board is "updated." However, I contacted Mitsubishi about my television problem and they replied that they are unaware of any power supply problems (liars).

If anyone knows about this class action lawsuit against Mitsubishi mentioned in a previous review, please post.

Besides the power supply failure, some vertical oscillation artifact is visible at times, particularly with dark backgorunds. I am ssuming this is another problem with the power supply. I have no other information on this.

I have purchased a battery automatic voltage regulator to connect my television. I am in hopes that this will help prevent any future power supply glitches. If it weren't for these two problems I would give the set 4-5 stars.

Outstanding picture, great value, compatability with the RCA DTC-100 high definition tuner/receiver, reputation for Mitsubishi quality.

Inability to use the built-in speakers as the center channel speaker with a A/V surround sound system. Mitsubishi's optional component cabinet for underneath the TV is too short to hold more than two AV components, so I build my own with 2X12s and 3/4" plywood that holds 4 components and places the screen at the ideal viewing height.

This set is a better value than Toshiba for just a little more money. I am using the RCA DTC-100 High Defition tuner/satellite receiver and the picture is so good it's almost frightening. The RCA decoder can be easily utilized if you purchase a VGA to 5-BNC adapter cable at an electronics parts store. I found one in the computer cables department at Best Buy for $40. You will also need 5 adapters to convert the BNC connections to RCA plugs to hook up to the Mitsubishi's High Definition video inputs on the back. I found those at Radio Shack. The RCA receives both local channels via a regular antenna(including high definition, if available in your area) and Direct TV. If you want to watch the two HDTV channels on Direct TV, you will need the RCA eliptical dish 8900E. Otherwise the standard dish is fine and all the channels are DVD quality.

So, for the price of the Mitsubishi, plus $650 for the DTC-100, you have a wide screen HDTV. It's a bargain!

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Also considered the Toshiba TW40X81, but it was too tall to place on top of any cabinet and still have a decent vertical viewing angle.

Table top (no cheap cabinet attached), theatre wide, and DVD ready

better have 3 or 4 good friends you don't care about losing after you carry this monster into your house! (160+ lbs.)

We looked at the Toshiba 40x81 and quite a few others. We liked the picture (these two were side by side) and the fact that it did not have the cheap ass cabinet attached to it. This is mistsu's "table top" model...assuming you have a 40" wide x 28" deep table! It has 3x1 (3 in the rear and 1 in the front drop down panel) inputs for everything except component..which is only on the back and is HD ready. Plus the is has a really great picture and sound. I luv this thing!!!! I gladly paid the extra 600 for this over the Toshiba.....Plus from what I've read the Mitsu's are not as suceptable to the long term contrast problems that most other projections are. We shall see..if you have not seen this TV go find one!

Great picture quality, loads of inputs, PRICE, features

Factory settings (but that doesn't really matter since one should be able to correct this using some decent test patterns)

I bought this TV when it first came out (I was really

enthusiastic about the whole HDTV thing). When I bought the

TV I also preordered the progressive scan DVD player,

Toshiba SD-5109 (I found that Bryn & Mawr had a really

experienced sales staff and a whole lot of products to

choose from.) I have just gotten an HDTV receiver (RCA

DTC-1200); by the way I tried connecting the cable input to

the HDTV receiver and so far I haven't received any HDTV or

16x9 signal.

If you're willing to try it I have a pretty interesting

alternative that will leave you with incredible results.

I used a laptop but any computer will work. Use the VGA

output on the laptop/computer. U need a VGA to BNC cable (

I already had this at home but i think u can purchase one

for under 30 dollars.) The mitsubishi doesn't offer direct

bnc connections ( they are RGB ). You can get BNC-to-Phono

adaptors at Radio Shack. Once you have all the cables

hooked up make sure you set the computer/laptop's

resolution to 640 x 480 before you restart. I used a good

quality screenssaver with images that blew me away. Just

make sure you select the DTV input on the Mitsubishi. I

didn't have a DVD player on my laptop but I don't see why

you couldn't play DVD movies using this alternative. Try it

out and tell me how it went.

Can hold a lot of AV equipment on top

Read below

With tax time just around the corner, it is excellent time to find out if you'll enjoy this TV. If you check the box for extra exemption on account of blindness, chances are you will (but better make sure your spouse is entitled to check that box, too!). I don't know what the other guys here rave about but here's a brief synopsis of my experience. I had (count'em) THREE units and all had the same problems, namely: strange waves near right and left edges, sub-par picture quality (even when playing DVD via component input), posterization of picture from my DSS receiver, and random shifting of image off center. After the store delivered the third one, Mitsu finally admitted that there was a problem and sent a tech who fixed the "waves" but could not do anything about picture quality. Probably the worst problem with this TV is that you can mess ad infinitum with its 64 convergence points but as soon as you shift an inch from the position in which you made the adjustments, you can see color separation. The only thing that is true is that you do not see nay scan lines but I now am a happy owner of a Sony VPL-W400Q projector and have to really strain to see any lines while watching a 70 inch screen. If you buy this thing, better get it from a place that'll take it back. My advice: do what I did!

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Switched to Sony VPL-W400Q projector

Small footprint, Decent HD decoding, Dual tuner side by side viewing capable.

Lame aspect settings (Stretch and Zoom only?)

First lets compare Prices:
WT-46805: $3,800 including tax and a non-mitsu stand.
TW56X81: $5,300 including tax (didn't shop around)
Pro-510HD:$4,900 including tax + shipping

So based on this, you can see that the Toshiba is just flat out too expensive (though it is a nice set) when I can get a Pioneer Elite for $400 less and it's a better set. So the Wife wants the Mitsu because of the small footprint and I took her to Andersons and the Good Guys here and just could not get it to do what I wanted.

Here is my story. The set was connected to an antenna, an HDTV feed (claimed to be satellite, but my guess would be hard drive), and a DVD (via composite or S-vid I am not sure). The HD feed of course was beautiful and was running 16:9 full screen, enough said. The broadcast signal looked about as good as one could expect, enough said. Ah but the DVD. This is why I have so far chosen to pass on this set.

They did not have a Prog scan Tosh DVD player connected, I do not intend to buy one either. Based on that and the fact that my current DVD has S-Video out as it's best format, I tried to configure this TV to display a Bugs Life DVD in 16:9 full screen mode. I found the image quality poor. What I got was a "Zoomed" full screen mode of the movie. All I can say is HUH? I could find no setting in the TV to display a widescreen formatted movie in full 16:9 mode. What this TV actually did was take it's "standard" format with grey bars on the side and the normal DVD letterboxing on the top and bottom and MAGNIFY it until the grey bars were gone and the letterboxing was minimized (since this is a 2.35:1 title some LB is expected). I could not believe that via a non progressive input that this TV cannot display a FULL 16:9 formatted movie, and has to blow up the picture to fill the screen. Needless to say pixels magnified to this level (About 2X to 3X normal size) look absolutely horrible on this set. This may in fact be due to poor line doubling technology. All I can say is it looks plain bad, and the Pioneer Elite does not.

So I stand in a quandry, they could not find the manual, and I could not find any other 16:9 DVD modes via the remote. This was the same thing I noted at BOTH retailers. Is there a way to watch 16:9 (anamorphic or not) DVD's on this tube in 16:9 format and not a crappy "Zoomed" 4:3 image? If not, this TV is a definate NO BUY (unless maybe you have a progressive DVD player) and I am leaning toward the Pioneer at this time. If anyone knows how to fix this TV to display S-video DVD in a true 16:9 format and not in a magnified format PLEASE email me and let me know, as I convinced the wife and now just need to convince myself.

Perhaps the 3 modes are provided to be used as follows:
Standard: 4:3 viewing with vertical grey bands.
Stretch: Anamorphic 16:9 DVD Titles (correct proportions?)
Zoom: 4:3 "letterboxed" materials (non anamorphics DVD)

If Zoom is the best this can do for non-anamorphic material, lets just say it is NOT good at all.

For now, until this MAJOR drawback is resolved this TV gets 2 stars. If the Pioneer Elite is also "zoooming" 4:3 letterbox to fit the 16:9 screen then the line doubler appears to be worlds ahead of Mitsubishi's

Does anyone have experience with non-anamorphic materials running via progressive scan into this box, either via the DVD player or a PC-DVD monitor output? If so does it still zoom or does it actually fill the screen at the correct aspect ratio? Perhaps that is the only way to get a good image from this box on those dvd titles.

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Great Price (price just dropped), Nice size for people who have trouble getting a large TV into the room.

480i images look terrible.

I do not own this TV. I have spent the past two months looking at TVs for my media room (carpet is being installed Tuesday.) I looked at large Tube (36") and small Rear Projection. When I would go into stores to look at the WT46805 they would either have a HDTV siginal connected or a cable feed. Of course the HDTV siginal look great. The cable looked like crap.

One store let me take my DVD player (Toshiba SD3109) in and try the TV with my DVDs. I used the component video output. I was amazed how bad it looked. Great DVDs looked OK and good DVD were unpleasant to watch. The Wizard of OZ and Apolo 13 were really bad. A Bug's Life was marginal.

When playing in 4:3 mode the edges of the movie were wavey.

I did not try a progressive scan DVD player to compare. If someone is going to get this TV I would suggest trying that before buying. Interlaced just does not cut it on this TV.

I really wanted to love this TV, it was the biggest I could get down the stairs to the media room and was in my budget.

I ended up getting the Toshiba TW40X81. About the same price but not as large. It did not exhibit the same problems as the Mits.

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Five format options. Easy to add to your small media room.

See my review below.

My replacement set was delivered to me a few days after the review below.
As noted, this is the 2001 model, WT-46807 and has some features not available on the previous model.
After the disaster of my first set, this one is a pleasant change.
It has held its convergence after a few days of using the 64 point adjustment. I used Avia to tune up the B&W and color, then readjusted the color setting to my liking- seems to have plenty of saturation (maybe a bit to much?), and the picture is reasonably sharp, especially when using the progressive input for my DVD. It is a little less detailed using Direct-TV.
PIP does not seem to work well with my satellite receiver, in the sense that it will only show the same channel that I am using. Mitsubishi makes all kinds of notes, and warnings about burning the screen if a narrow picture is left on for more than 15% of viewing, so I like to play 4:3 TV from satellite with PIP. The PIP switches from narrow format to expanded format, and then you can run a pip alongside the main screen.
Progressive scan (line doubler) is great with DVDs. I can hardly wait for the Mitsubishi HDTV/Sat receiver to come out (I'm told it will be soon!!).
I usually do not buy service policies/extended warranty on my equipment, but,I did with this set. After the HDTV receiver is available, I'll have a technician come over and give the set a good tune up (I hope?).
I would find out the exchange or return policy of the vendor prior to purchase of this set, but, now would recommend it for a smallish media room.
Will change my rating from the horrible one below to much better now that I have had second set for a while. I'm knocking off some because the picture is not quite as detailed and sharp as my previous Sony RPTV.
My equipment is listed in review below, except for not listing my Velodyne subwoofer.

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