LCD Flat screen tv's

The Olevia is highly recommended by Consumers Reports. Olevis in owned by Syntax-Brillant which is a parent company of Vivitar. Several of my colleagues have owned Olevias for 2 trouble-free years and several months ago I picked up a 37" LCD at Office Depot for $900. which subsequently went on sale for $750.
Before buying I compared it to several brand name LDC TVs and the only ones which exceeded its picture quality were the higher-priced Sonys. I am very happy with the Olevis
Olevis is a great bargain and definitely not a "low-end brand". Just relatively unknown. Do yourself a big favor and look at one at Office Depot, althoough their viewing conditions are certainly less than ideal.

I haven't shopped in that range, so I can't really comment on specifics. It's hard to go wrong with a Sony.

My one piece of advice, regardless of size or TV type, is to ask to see it with a "regular" source - ie, a normal cable or satellite feed of a channel you watch regularly. Unless this is just for DVDs and HDTV, you will spend a lot of time with regular definition TV, and that is typically a place where the difference between a cheap TV and a more expensive TV shows up. They all look pretty darn good with a high-def source.

Another option, if you're using cable or satelite as source, would be to buy a monitor vs. TV with internal tuner. I purchased a new "A" stock 32" Toshiba monitor on Ebay for my daughter for Xmas for $619. including freight. Why pay for an internal TV tuner if you'll never use it?

If your TV doesn't have an internal tuner, and your cable/satellite goes out, your up the creek. Then what? you may have to take your eyes of the idiot box and talk to someone instead of gazing into that infernal box. Or better yet, turn on your two channel stereo and listen to some music!

Just kidding.

Thanks everyone. These are some excellent suggestions and input. Just what I was looking for all except from Btstrg whose reply was entirely useless and uncecessary. This forum doesn't need members like this. If you have nothing constructive to add, get off the forum. He must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed that day.