Maybe that'll get them to hire more employees that know something about the products. Once in a while you'll get one that knows his/her stuff and isn't trying to push you into buying just anything but that's rare.

I have a 61" Samsung LED set. It's great and I don't see any rainbows, but one thing you should be aware of is that it has a limited viewing angle. So if you have seating far to the left and right of the TV you wont get as good of picture quality. Other than that, I have no complaints. I dialed mine in using video essentials DVD and everything looks very natural.

Also mind you if you do get a DLP tv you'll want to avoid Faroudja scalers in DVD players or receivers. I'd go with something like the Oppo 980H or 983.

Just out of curiosity, what evidence or previous reasoning do you have by making that statement?

I didn't notice until you said something. That's funny. What an oversight.

Ed Zackery! and once HD programming is available via download from the net with the option for commercial or commercial free, I'll have my second medium. I'll be paying for internet anyway, so might as well get some HD from it.

I can't find any product info on Oppo's website, but you can preorder it. However according to hometheaterhifi.com: "The 983H is also a true universal DVD player, offering DVD-Audio and SACD playback via HDMI (v1.2) or analog outputs."

Ben -

I'm sure if it's that they don't care, but that they might not know that theirs a difference. In addition if you're hooking up directly to the TV without a sound system, then who cares, you probably never notice a difference. If you're using a home theatre system, then you'll need a preprocessor or a receiver with HDMI, spdif or 5.1/7.1 inputs. There haven't been very many products in the audio market that have HDMI. Then there aren't a full array of dvd players that contain 5.1 or 7.1 analog outputs and again the receiver may not contain them. So spdif or toslink is the simple solution.

I think audio is something that takes a bit longer to uprgade and as you said isn't quite as important to many. But I think a majority of those people don't have systems that could utilize it anyway.

I disagree with your argument because we're going through a paradigm shift in the media market. We'll have HD TV, Radio and Movies. It's not just delivering media in a different format, like laserdisc vs VHS, it's an entire industry focusing on a whole new set of standards. Even the FDC is getting in the game by require tv broadcasters to upgrade to HD by '09.

Downloading content will be popular, but there's still a huge part of the population that doesn't have broadband, so they're out. Their option with be Blu-ray. Plus, people still like to own physical things and blu-ray media will fit-the-bill. Of course they could still buy DVD's, but for a few dollars more they could be buying a better product.

I'll either buy a Samsung or an Oppo (if announced), but I'd like to get something with 2.0 support.

It's a start in the right direction.