they are good tvs. we have a church member here who is a manager at the local factory. like most [japanese] companies, they are proceding slowly, but with quality
she says they are going to have hdtv before the year is out
in our current generaion of tvs (we have 10 distributed throughout the fam), only two have failed... one belonged to my aunt, and i think it was because she watched too many reruns of jazzy jeff and the fresh prince on it, thus causing the picture tube to quit in disgust