My Experience: I've had this tv for about 8 months and i'm in love with it. I only paid 1,700 for mine from tigerdirect.com. shipping 200.00 extended warranty 200.00 and tv stand 100.00 and HDMI for 50.00 do the math.The picture quality with HD components are out of this world. Now With the HDMI the sound is AMAZING but the components give a better picture so, I hook both of them up and get the perfect sound from HDMI cable and Perfect video from the components. If I just use the HDMI cable there are vertical lines because this tv does no support 1080P. I wish there was an upgrade for it.. This Tv is wonderful though and I've never put in in the shop if i do warrnaty covers it..
Problems: The vertical lines with the HDMI is annoying. This is how you fix it.. Plug in the HD components into input one or input two then plug in the HDMI into The number input you put the components. Say you plugged in the compnents into input 1 plug the hdmi into HDMI 1. That way you have the perfect picture from the hd components and the perfect sound from the HDMI.. Now, if this tv supported 1080P there would be no lines.. Any questions - slokom123@yahoo.com