"In use:

When you first switch on the set the fan powers up quite lodly but within a second powers down to a more quiet operating speed. Despite this the whine/hum is still quite significant and I'd imagine would become annoying to others.
Initial setup was quite fairly straight forward. Just select your country and broadcast system and off it goes searching the frequency range. Once the channels are found you can do the usual fine tuning. Picture quality out of the box is reasonable but I must admit that I was rather disappointed (again only due to the fact I was used to the CRT viewing) with the tv reception. There are a number of different preset picture modes along with two personal settings. Each input will remember it's last pre-selected mode but can also have its own personal settings as well. I decided to whip out the AVIA disc and run through the setup routine - this improved the picture significantly for all input signals. Having viewed the tv reception over the last few days I've now realised that the LCD is indeed highlighting all the faults with this 'low' bandwidth signal. Ghosting due to the aerial not being setup is now apparent where in the past the CRT had actually masked this flaw. Channel Five is the worst of all the channels. However picture quality changes depending on channel and program on view. For example I watched LOST on C4 yesterday and that looked great but I watched the US tv series The Magnificent Seven and that looked rather grainy - all appears to be content related rather than any issue with the set.

DVD watching over standard scart and SVHS is no better than, if actually worse than CRT however switching to component and all changes for the better - significantly. Progressive scan from the Pio 575 is very nice indeed and re-watching films has provided detail and colouring I'd not seen previously. In fact colour separation and contrast levels are outstanding. Black levels are as to be expected of any of the current well known models.

Finally the real reason I wanted an LCD - HTPC output. I connected my Shuttle PC and was able to get a res of 1360 by 768. I tried using Powerstrip but could only select 1368 or 1360 as the closest to 1366. I've got an ATI 9800 pro and I'm using Catalyst version 5.8 - not sure how to get 1366 as reported by others here. I will be buidling a dedicated HTPC soon but will switch to a Nvidia 6600GT. I settled on a res of 1360 by 768 but was a little disappointed by the image in Windows - areas of text were blurred, a result I guess of a non 1:1 pixel mapping. Whilst cycling through the aspect ratio settings I came across a 'REAL' setting which 'fixed' the image. Consulting the manual it states - displays the actual size of the video source without re-sizing (I'm presuming then the scaler is switched off). All was good and sitting on my sofa 9ft way using Windows was great!! Having downloaded a few hi-def trailers (720p) I fired these up and sat in awe as these perfect pictures exploded on screen - Madagascar and Shark Tale looked supreme (pin sharp and vibrant) whilst Batman Begins was equally impressive. I then hooked up a few games and these looked good albeit not at optimum res since most didn't have LCD tv friendly resolutions.

Haven't mentioned the sound - the built in speakers are capable of quite high volumes with little distortion. The level runs from 0 to 47. For me 10 is high enough for normal listening. You can tailor the sound using a 5 band equaliser.

I haven't begun to mention the other picture and audio settings but you can view all of this in the online manual. Plus the Picture in Picture and Picture by Picture functionality.

Annoyances:

Hum from the fan is a bit of a pain and there is no easy way to change it. Would have been nice to detach the speakers
Teletext - why can't it store sub-pages like my mates telly?

Summing up

Still unconvinced about the pics from terrestrial analogue broadcasts - I'm hoping this will be remedied by the Nebula DigiTV card in the HTPC. Also note I haven't seen any noticeable artefacts/tearing on any inputs
Superb when linked to a HTPC and I'm hoping it'll improve when I set up TheaterTek and FFDSHOW correctly.

Pics show a selection of analogue broadcasts, component DVD (Bond), hi-def trailers and PC games. When viewing please bear in mind the limitations of digital photography or more to the point my IXUS V3 camera.

... Link to images in later posting ...

DTTB"

Saludos.