how good are Westinghouse products?

4-hdmi ports is a big plus, price is great for 1080p.. dont lets best buy suckerpunch you with the 4-year warranty for $130 more and the monster brand hdmi cable for $95 more. if you really want the added warranty, tell them to drop it to $75. best buy does negotiate these, most people don't bother. get the hdmi cable from monoprice, less than $10.

i bought this tv from BB about 6 months ago and after comparing it to others at best buy with excruciating detail i decided that it had as good of a picture as ones that were twice the price. after getting it home I am very happy with the picture quality and features, it is also in a very well lit room with natural light and it does very well and never looks washed out even when the sun is pouring through the windows.

the two worst things are the remote that it comes with - it hardly works from more 10feet away and even then you have to point it directly at the tv, even with new batteries.

The other things that it lacks is sound quality - the built in speakers are definitely tinny and I wouldn't recommend them for everyday use.

it's definitely worth a look if you have a universal remote and external speakers.

stups, I agree 100% if you have home theater and universal remote, you are good to go with this tv!

Buy a Syntax Olevia. I have a westinghouse monitor, and though it was refurbished I got a stuck pixel within 4 days. Their warranty is based on "regions" of the screen (very complicated, don't ask) and I got screwed out of a replacement. I have a Syntax Olevia 1080p($867 AR and tax from Sears) and it is AMAZING! This definitely becoming a First Tier HDTV manufacturer. Sound is great from the included speakers. The picture is to die for. And if you don't have cable the atsc and ntsc tuners are a must have.

warning- has something called dynamic contrast which can not be disabled... it is the most annoying thing especially when watching hi definition movies

I had to return my 32 inch westinghouse this week. It was lucky that I did have the 4 year warrenty plan. When i took it to the TV repair shop, they said that the main board was fried and that thtey did not make that part anymore. The TV repair shop did have the TV for a month. I purchased a new warranty for my new 32 inch LG TV. Hopefully this one does not have the fate as the Westinghouse.

I find that any flat technology tv that doesn't have 120Hz is not worth buying. Any time you going to watch fast action or play a game you'll see what I am talking about. Yes 120Hz is pricey wait a little bit with this mortgage crises when sony, samsung and sharp (those 3 companies have leading lcd panels technologies) realize that people can't afford bread and water (the everyday must have things) the price will go down mark my words. Save some money and get 120Hz tech, price will be good end of this year or mid 2009, plus there is nothing worth watching right now on hdtv (i said tv not blue-ray or hd-dvd)

Plasma doesn't suffer from motion lag or blur and has far better picture quality than LCDs, at least the good ones do, Pioneer and Panasonic. You need a fairly dark room for them though since they aren't as bright as LCD. The 42" Panasonic for about the same price on sale will blow this TV away and Panasonic reliability has always been excellent.

i agree with #8. 120 hz is the way to go.
forget contrast ratio bla it's 120 hz that looks the best.

gimme a deal on a 46" + samsung 120 hz tv... for like 1500... done deal!

I've seen these Westinghouse LCD's in several stores and I was not impressed with the picture. Now, it could be that they have all grossly mis-configured them in an effort to sell up to other, more expensive brands. Or maybe the picture just sucks on these low end models.

As far as waiting 18 months for "120Hz". Forget that... Might as well wait 3 years and get a 48" 120Hz for $800. Or 6 years and get yourself a 57" for $500, or wait forever and get yourself a 3D holodeck.

good price for this not-so-great-brand other than going with some used-refurbish piece:
http://www.bacon.com/chart.php?range=3m&type=d&smooth=d&n=42in%201080p%20HDTV%20&u=priceguru

#11, i posted something about that recently. I bought a westinghouse 22" monitor at bestbuy that looked horrid in store compared to the others. Got it home, and its 20x crisper/brighter/more vivid than the in store model was.

Same goes for "maxent" plasma i bought there a few years ago.

back when I worked at best buy in 1999ish, they did similar stuff in my car audio department.

Before buying a set with 120 Hz scanning, spend some time watching it.

It makes everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) look like overly sharp live video. Not at all what I'm looking for when I watch a movie or TV drama.

Great if you only play video games, watch live sports, and of course cartoons.

But if your taste varies from those, you'll quickly be unhappy with 120 Hz sets.

Agree with #14. Movies only have 24 frames a second so the TV guesses at what the other 96 should look like. The effect is very weird and distracting. It will remind you of video, which is not a good thing.