The Sony Bravia!! The 40EX500 to be exact.
Originally, I thought my dithering cost me about $150 since the price I paid last night was higher than what I thought I’d seen a couple of weeks ago. After a little investigation, it turns out the model I was looking at then was the 40EX400. The main difference appears to be the 120Hz refresh on the 500 model versus standard 60Hz on the 400 model. So there’s a metric for future reference.
Anyway, I got it setup last night. Always fun playing with A/V cabling because it quickly becomes a dizzying array of inputs and outputs and which TV input gives which capabilities. I got an assist from the Bro last night as we had to reverse engineer our cable-box/ Tivo/ DVD player configuration. The main difference was feeding the cable to the TV directly from the wall to get access to the digital channels- fortunately, I had an extra splitter lying around.
The only ‘gotcha’ I encountered had to do with the physical setup of the TV. The pedestal causes the set to sit back about 3 inches from the front of the cabinet. The screen width exactly matches the width of the cabinet opening, so when viewed from an angle, part of the view of the screen is blocked by the cabinet. I’ll have to figure out something to remedy that.
Otherwise, looks nice. On to the next thing…