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Strengths: Tremendous High Definition Picture with any Hi-Def input (Blu-Ray, HD-DVD, Hi-Def cable, Up-converted DVD). Great quantity & variety of input jacks. Ability to name input sources in user set-up.
Weaknesses: Maybe just the nature of the beast, but once you've watched anything in HD, watching standard definition/regular broadcast TV is almost intolerable.
Summary: I spent several months researching Plasma, LCD, and the various Projection formats, before narrowing my list to the Sony Bravia A3000 LCD 60" Projection TV, and this Mitsubishi WD65734 DLP 65" Projection Model. The first part of my decision came to favor Projection over both Plasma and LCD as the best quality/dollar value in very large screen TVs. Though both LCD and Plasma technologies offered high quality pictures, the cost in very large screen models significantly out-weighed any discernable difference in picture quality. In fact, I frequently felt the large screen projection TVs looked better. The next, and what proved to be toughest decision, was to actually decide between the two projection TVs mentioned. What was an asset in one was a liability in the other that ended up being a trade-off in both directions. I ultimately settled on the Mitsubishi solely because of the deal I was able to get versus the Sony. ($1399 for the 65" Mitsu vs $1800 for the 60" Sony). I have now had the Mitsubishi for 6 months and absolutely love it. It is my second large screen TV, and will never settle for anything less again. It has a crisp (STUNNING) HD Display, and terrific compatibility with home theater/sound installations. There are plenty of input jacks for every imaginable connection, including 4 HDMI jacks (more than any TV of any kind I looked at). Though projection TVs are certainly not as thin as the wall mount LCD and Plasma TVs, they are not the monsters they used to be either. Even with its tremendous 65" wide-screen, it has a very shallow (approx. 16") depth. If there is a weakness (and I think it is more something that is true of all large screen Hi-Def TVs) it is that watching standard definition/broadcast television is almost painful. There is not a DVI (computer digital video) input, but it is easy and cheap to get a DVI to HDMI adapter, if you want to connect your computer to the TV. Other than that small weakness, criticism of the built-in speakers is probably correct, but I can't imagine using a television of this quality and not including home theater sound. At least for me the built-in speakers were irrelevant. In conclusion, after 6 months I am absolutely sold on this TV.
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