I don't want to dampen your enthusiasm because I know how exciting a purchase like this can be but I just gave up on digital rear projection. I've always been a RPTV proponent when it came to CRT sets so when the new digital sets started coming down in price with better resolutions I thought it was time to go shopping. That was about two years ago. I was initially drawn to the Samsung. It had a picture that grabbed you and they seemed like they were the value leader in giving you the most bang for the buck. Then as I got more serious about upgrading I started spending more time analyzing the picture and I started seeing an artificial texture overlaid on the image. It is most noticable on bright solid colored objects. It can look like fine grained sandpaper, even sparkling a bit like sunshine on fresh snow. It's one of those things that once you pick it up you can't stop focusing on it and it destroyed my enjoyment of the otherwise very good picture. By adding texture to distant objects it can fool your brain into thinking the object must be closer than it really is. To me, this ruins the three dimensionality of the image. It looks compressed front to back. Initially I thought it must be something inherent in the dlp technology but now I think it is a combination of the digital imaging combined with the rear projection screen material. Not too long ago I was in a store looking at a $4k digital RPTV and trying to decide if I could live with it and right above this set was a $2k CRT based HD RPTV about the same size with the same program material. While the CRT set didn't grab you with it's brilliant colors like the digital set did, the CRT was much more 3 dimensional and lifelike. It had more of that "looking out a window" feel to it. The digital set looked artificial by comparison. That's when I realized I had to expand the scope of my shopping. Front projectors have been coming down in price so I thought I should maybe take a look. After looking at a few "good" demos I immediately realized the false texturing was not due to the digital projection itself as much as it's implementation in a rear projection set. Last week I bought a BenQ PE8700+ front projector and am one happy camper. If front projection simply isn't possible for you I would reconsider a CRT RPTV. I know, I know, it's not as glamorous as one of those razzmatazz digital sets everyone is talking about but hey, it's all about the picture quality isn't it? My well tweeked 7 year old Toshiba RPTV still wows some people, even with standard definition. And the CRT based sets are at real bargain prices right now.