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Jul 27, 2017 dick boiii     Do not post more than once per product. Do not post first impressions, spend so...

Jul 4, 2016 www     I bought this PL4260N in late 2006 / early 2007. Had it almost 10 years. NO PROB...

Feb 5, 2011 Frustrated     My TV just popped. No picture only sounds. Seems you know all about this. Th...

Oct 29, 2010 ramblin on     Purchased 03/2007, died 11/2009,,,hp says 60,000 hrs of viewing...ha...sent emai...

May 6, 2010 Never Another HP Product!     I guess we're the lucky ones. Our HP HDTV picture lasted a whole 3 1/2 years! ...

Aug 28, 2009 meegas     I purchased the Pavillon MD5800 HP TV a few years back with a 3 year warranty. ...

Jul 17, 2009 D&S     My wife and I bought this tv in March of 2007 from Circuit City. May 28,2009 it ...

Jul 14, 2009 HP_SUCKS     Complaint Description - Posted 6/23/2009 9:37:53 AM I'm writing to express my ex...

Apr 28, 2009 terryk     Image detail and color quality is great. Sound from the two side mounted speake...

Jan 7, 2009 B-pool     HP 42 plasma HDTV (purchased 1/31/06, 3 years). The screen shows dark garbled im...

Dec 25, 2008 Greg     HP doesn't care about televisions, they are dropping almost all of them....

Oct 31, 2008 pc     Have this tv for 16 months, it worked ok, on September just die, no picture, no ...

Dec 24, 2007 Matt     I bought this TV in April 2007 for a great price and it has served me well. I u...

May 23, 2006 ejz91369     Great television for the price. Beautiful picture quality, esp. with DVD or HDT...

May 17, 2006 northshore     Great picture and sound (when hooked up to regular cable) and nice looking plasm...

My Experience: I bought this TV in April 2007 for a great price and it has served me well. I use it for HDTV signals and my xbox 360. I find the picture to be amazing and is on par with any of the more well-known television brands. The audio is great and the vertical speakers combined with horizontally placed BOSE speakers via tuner really saturate the room well. It is pretty resistant to burn-in though I was careful in its first 100-200 hours of life to not crank the colour and to not view too many stationary images. I've played many, many hours of Halo 2, COD 3 and Halo 3 on this thing and none of the HUD images had a lasting impression on the screen. A few moments of EquatorHD or Oasis HD and it's gone. Though it is a 1080i, the jaggies you may get with high-motion like sports or video games are not something that I've noticed. When playing a Halo 3 launch party and put next to my buddy's 40 inch Samsung LCD, the Samsung was blown away. The ghosting and frequently blurred and soft images of my friend's TV were very apparent next to the much sharper and faster-refreshing HP of mine. Overall: great, great TV.
The handles on the back of this behemoth also make transporting it much much easier.

Problems: Screwing the speakers on to the frame was a pain. Getting the screws aligned in the deep sockets was hard and you can't use screwdrivers with interchangeable bits because the shafts are too big.