I bought my Sony 36 XBR before Sony introduced the 34 wide screen. The picture is one of the best I've seen. The grey scale when watching something like Casablanca is amazing in its gradations from white to really black. We watch CSI: Miami just because the panoramas are so grand in HD and the surround sound so involving. For me, the question is not my set or a 60" SXRD, nice as they are, but my set or an 80' wide projection screen. Only the big screen of front project seems to really draw me into a movie. But then there's the practicality issue of what to use for regular TV viewing in a reasonably lighted room. I guess it's a pull-down screen in front of a plasma TV, but I have yet to settle that in my own mind.
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