Old but gold! The most durable one than flat-screen TVs. solar panels fresno

Nothing, this has the best quality ever.

Great tv. It is a very attractive addition to the home. Steven

None so far.

What an amazing product so far. Thanks vaughan surveying

none so far

Great picture in 480p, good sound from unit, lots of display features, lots of input sources. I got this tv solely to play old school video games, primarily GameCube with the original component cable, and it's destined to be playing all consoles up to that era, including original Wii.

The input for the component source is weird to boot at first but that's only because the GameCube doesn't start out in 480p. The result is a picture that's totally messed up. Once the GC switches to 480p the picture is great. The weight of this unit is very high. This is not a portable screen by any means and requires two people to move it. I have picked it up by myself and questioned my intelligence as a result. Another weird quirk shutting down the unit. The front button won't do it- maybe I'm doing something wrong. However, the remote does it fine.

Great Picture, great quality.

See above.

Awesome picture. Great TV. That's the good stuff. When I got this TV, there weren't very many others out there. I'm not even sure if 480p was out yet. I recently purchased a Sony DVPNS715P Progressive Scan DVD player, and have had no luck in making the two work in 480p mode. I have to put the DVD player in interlace mode. When I called Philips support, they didn't sound like they knew what they were doing, had me on hold forever, and basically blamed the DVD player. Here's what I don't like about this set... - no volume display - no direct input selection (i.e. you can't just jump to DVD input, or VCR input. You have to go to channel 2, then "channel down" to them.) How stupid! - Channel changing is very slow, so it makes the above step even more painful. - menu navigation is slow - extremely poor documentation and fan base. There's nothing out there on doing tweaks, etc. In fact, there are a few indicator lights on the front of the TV, and nowhere in the manual does it say what they're for. Tech support didn't even know. - only one HD input. So, if you have a HDTV set top box, you have to use input 3 for the DVD player, which is component, but not progressive scan or HD. - Lack of volume control on the TV. - Also, it has a great sound system built in, but if you have an external 5.1 surround receiver and speakers (which you definitely should have), it doesn't make much sense. Too bad they didn't put 5.1 and external speaker connections directly on the TV... That's about it. I am very picky, so these things may not bother everyone. I really do like the TV, I just wish I could get my PS DVD player working in 480p. If anyone has any suggestions, please email me.

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DVD & Digital cable look great. I cannot wait to get HDTV. The HDTV being shown at the store looked awesome.

The regular price is high but after having the TV for a few weeks I can say it is worth it.

This TV is great. After spending about two hours at Goodguys and doing side by side comparrisons with Sony, Toshiba, JVC, & Lowe TV's of comperable sizes and features I chose this one. The price was $3,000 and I made the decision to buy to later find out the display is all they had so I got it for $1950.00. Wow what a deal and what a great TV.

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Excellent picture and color.

Very heavy, annoying menu system, only one wideband component input, but that can be worked around with a nice receiver.

I have had this TV for almost a year now and I still love it. The picture is incredible, especially for DVD sources. I have no had the change to use the HDTV features yet, but I have seen it in a showroom and the picture is awesome. I can't wait to get an HDTV tuner eventually. At first the menu system seemed kinda cool, but after using it extensively during the initial setup it gets annoying quickly, it's too linear and hard to jump around to different parts of the menu without tracing backwards most of the way. Picture alignment on the screen is good, and the screen has little to no glare given a decent lighting setup, which is attributable to the flat screen. I've noticed that some reviews here state that you cannot go directly to an input source w/o cyclcing through all the others. For a while I thought this too, but I discovered that I could actually accomplish this by selecting the input on the remote (say for DVD), THEN pressing the select source button once, and it goes right to the currently selected source (on the remote). This, however, doesn't seem to work when trying to go back to TV from DVD for some reason, it seems to only work with the extra inputs (1-4). All-in-all I think this is an excellent TV and was well worth the investment.

Love the picture (even with lesser cable signal), enough features to keep a tinkerer happy for some time, excellent zoom modes for 4:3 analog content.

Input source select, only one HD component input, won''t display DVD 4:3 content in anything bit widescreen mode.

This is a review of the 34PW9817, a similar model (doesn''t have GuidePlus.) Beautiful picture with progressive scan DVD. Much better picture with analog cable than the Sony XBR450 I sent back to Tweeter. This set doesn''t show the faults in a lesser signal the way the Sony did - is it the Natural Motion feature? Menu provides much to play with, is a bit of a pain to navigate (must retrace steps, can''t just jump back to parent menu.) When switching input sources, you must cycle through all inputs, even those you defined as not connected to anything ("None"). A pain but I worked around that by seting up my Surf channels/inputs to include only used inputs and channel 3 (for VCR) Only has one set of HD component inputs which I''m using for progressive scan DVD. Other reviews I''ve read indicate this will be a problem when I want to hook up and HD tuner because the TV''s other component input isn''t high def. I sent an email to Philips customer support - we''ll see what they say. Set displays all DVD content in widescreen mode, even those formatted in 4:3. Bummer. Especially since the zoom modes for 4:3 analog content over cable are great. I don''t understand why these aren''t available when the source is 4:3 DVD content. This set is close to being perfect (picture, features) but a couple of stupid design decisions dramaticly affect its usability to the point that I will probably return the set. Its a hard decision because I love the picture.

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Picture. Styling.

Not a real weakness but the built-in sound capabilities are a waste since anyone who puts this much into a TV will compliment it with a good 5:1 system.

Exceptional performance. Coupled with a JVC XV-D723 progressive scan DVD the results are stunning. Picture so precise you can even see chemical streaking on a bad film transfer. Finally got a true HD signal with a TERK TV55 antenna and Panasonic HDTV receiver and I''m hooked!

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Good picture quality, guide plus and easy to setup. It has an option to add surround speakers(not necessary if you have an a/v receiver).

No volume display.

I was very impressed with this product. Does not look good with regular directv signal but very good with dvd movies. The salesman from good guys told me not to lose the remote control bec. everything needs to be setup from the remote. He's wrong though, there's a menu button on top of the tv where you can navigate the system.