Jec2345
The picture quality and sound quality are not good, even for the price. I expected better. The sound is muffled and even with adjustments it was not good. Picture quality was poor especially from the side. I dont know what others are comparing it to but I was unhappy with it. I tried it with HD signals and was still unhappy. The biggest problem with this TV is the limited picture format options. There are only Normal, Wide and Cinema. I use this TV with a standard definition box in the kitchen. My cable provider, Suddenlink, seems to be unable to understand that they need to set all the channels with the same format so I am always having to change the format on the TV. The most common one is a 9x16 picture with top and bottom letter box for a 3x4 picture. On other TVs such as Samsung there are a couple of Zoom formats which work great. Not so with the Hitachi. Normal has the 9x16 screen with black space on all sides. Wide had the picture stretched with black space above and below. Cinema fills the entire screen, but over-stretches to cut off picture on each side. The point is, if you need flexibility with picture format, this is not the TV for you. I am sending this one back.
