I've had this unit for almost 1 year now. I purchased this to have a second Plasma for the bedroom. I already have a HDTV Pioneer plasma in my den and I enjoy it so much that I could not resist the $1,800 price tag. I think SVA was the first to beat the $2000 price tag with the EDTV plasmas. So I jumped at it. The unit came with a castiron base and I needed my brother to come over to lift this on to a piece of furniture (135lbs) Now to performance: The Good. Picture is very bright! Speakers work great. If used for store displays, anamated cartoons this unit is fine. Now the Bad. The grey scaling is poor. If you are watching a movie with dark scenes (such as Van Helsing) you will see blue blacks, washed out details etc. I have found the best picture is with the color and contrast set to 30 and the brightness set between 55 and 70. This will give you the best picture available. With these settings I have found the picture acceptable, but I would reccomend you look at the latest Panasonic EDTV plasmas such as the 42PD25u. This unit is now rated for 60,000 hours (twice the length of most plasmas) and the grey scaling and detail is the best you can buy in a EDTV plasma. Check Amazon they have great deals.

I had been searching for a good EDTV Plasma for some time. I have no HDTV feed so there was no need to pay extra for the better resolution. After searching for some time I saw this SVA model go on sale for 1799 so I jumped on it and had it at my house in a weeks time. The display looks great and the stand and speakers it comes with are very nice. I left the speakers in the box since I also purchased a surround system. The first thing that I found that I didn't like about this display was no support for Progressive Scan signals, so that new DVD player from Sony wasn't worth it I guess. With Progressive Scan signaling turned off the display was adequte watchin a DVD, but nothing great. Once I tried watching TV however, that's when I was really let down. The display made everthing blurry and appear out of focus, but just barely, it gave me a headache trying to watch normal TV programming. I played with the Aspect settings, the picture settings, etc.. nothing helped. I also noticed that gradients didn't show well, instead of a smooth gradient fill on certain scenes it appeared choppy and the trasition was stepped.

After one week of adjusting, I boxed it up and sent it back. I paid another $200 for the Panasonic 42PWD7UY. What a difference!! Progressive signals, much better resolution, better contrast, better everything. There's now no wonder it's rated one of the best EDTV Plasmas on the market, but this isn't a review for the Panasonic just wanted to stress that a little extra money in the world of Plasma's is REALLY worth it!!

This is the leasty amount of money I have ever expected to spend on a plasma TV. The picture is clear and it looks better than the Samsung 65 inch bigscreen I purchased for more. The speakers sond great and the stand makes it attractive on our dresser. The plasma unit does run a little hot and has a funny way of turning on wich is from remote only. Sometimes you need to reset the power button for some reason but other wise I can't complain.