I had to change my 7 year old samsung in the livingroom, the lcd screen was giving problems lately... I had bought it at the time because brand name.. had a ton of issues.. (power supply caps and so on) after opening it up a few times to fix it and examined some of the parts inside noticed that it had the most cheapest parts you can find on the market and was made to fail within 5 to 6 years.. to top it off it was a the higher end tv model from samsung and had paid over 3.5k from future shop... anyways bought a vizio m65-c1 at bust buy for 1800$... with some tweeking so far so good and picture is damm good for the $$$ for the HT room have an epson projector had it for a while and solid picture with a decent price....