Samsung PN50B450 Adequate for home theater

Taking the plunge into HDTV from a CRT, I'm mostly pleased, and with decently-transferred DVDs the image quality is what I was hoping for -- a viable home theater.

I made the mistake of making the Planet Earth DVDs the first thing I played. They almost looked better on my old CRT, and I was crestfallen that I'd just thrown away $900, but putting on a few other DVDs showed it to be a DVD issue, not the TV (I'm running a progressive scan DVD player with component cables directly to the TV).

I'm also running Yamaha's entry-level receiver, HTR-5830, and unfortunately I'm noticing a little lip-sync issue. The next one up, HTR-5840, has lip-sync correction.

One area that was a huge improvement from CRT was with the XBox 360. Really impressive.

So to those making the move into HDTV for the first time, be aware of factors that will make it a less-than-ideal experience, but it's a great TV for the price and in the right circumstances.

Update----------------------------

Not having bought a receiver in a few years, I thought all I'd need to have the receiver handle all outgoing video traffic was one cable. Evidently it's now acceptable for a receiver to only transmit the same kind of traffic that goes in; in other words, video input from composite-, component- and HDMI-connected sources would need three different cables out to the TV.

It's a scam that video conversion isn't standard in today's A/V receivers.