Till the cabinet thing came up, I wasn't even contemplating new TV.
Saw a review somewhere on HDTV's, where a mention was made of a Sony which did something to 'use' the 16:9 screen size for 4:3 formatted viewing without using the black bars down the left & right sides?
It had never crossed my mind before, (since the sets I had seen were prob. being fed DVD footage) that you end up viewing 4:3 in a little center box on your 16:9 screen.
Between that kind of (new to me) infor. and the great copyrighted Digital connection debate, I assume I do need to research quite a bit.
We watch mainly Satellite or DVD, I'll guess the satellite is all 4:3 feed.
I felt if they sort out mixing a good picture onto a 16:9 screen from a 4:3 feed, or switch to feeding all in 16:9. Then that would be the 'shape' cabinet, I should definitely purchase.
(I’m just hanging on by fingernails learning audio. (sigh) a whole new piece of the pie to dig into to)