Quote Originally Posted by luckee
A friend of mine recently got a free tv from the freeflatscreen.com promotion. The TV is really nice and all but how does it compare to a HDTV? The quality from what i've seen first hand is really nice, however still lacks the HDTV compatibility.

Any info is appreciated!

If you can get this set for FREE - then fine and dandy. But I wouldn't buy one myself at any price! My servicing experience with Sony sets has been very negative - plus the fact that Sony has only seen fit to back this set with 90 damn days of warranty! That, all by itself is reason enough to rule it out in my book. I think that a 90 day warranty on a product (especially on a product selling for hundreds of dollars) is obscene! It's pretty strong and convincing evidence that the mfg.doesn't have much confidence in it's reliability.

Also, a 27" set is really too small to enjoy the potential of HiDef pictures. If you want to enjoy the benefits of HDTV pic quality, you need to look at sets with a larger screen size than this, IMO.