Well Trip, I for one never insulted you. Nor have I ever tried to make you a minority on this site. But you did show some character in that sandwich post. Your loss, I'm afraid.

TripEnglish: That's sort of where the sandwich picture came in. Randomly posting a picture of a not-ugly television by another manufacturer is nearly a non-sequitur, even on a thread about how we're going mad with our abusive pricing strategy. Trip, I didn't post a random image, I posted a picture of a TV that is damn fine looking to me

This thread is superb!

A fun and interesting story indeed! Thanks.

Puncher, I must admit I don't care much about my TV's. I want flat screens, they should look somewhat good, but other than that I'm not too interested in the details. As to HD, I don't think I need it, my cable TV operator only got a handful of channels in HD, I seldom watch movies. A surround setup of Beo is not what I'm after.

DoubleU: bayerische: Wow, Trip. You know how to insult. Its called Harvard debate material... Yeah, I forgot about that... I'm not shopping for a TV currently, I just mentioned it as a really good looking TV, at least for its price. It's really nice, specially with the "brownish" trim around it, looks like a picture frame, I know it's

TripEnglish: I really like this delicious looking sandwich I found on Google's image search. Haven't seen it in person, but I think it would cost around 4 or 5 dollars. Wow, Trip. You know how to insult.

I really like this new white TV from Sony... Saw it live today, and it only costs 1299 euro! (40")

The bS9000 has SPDIF input only. A coaxial one.

Am I the only one here that thinks the BV7 looks like a pile of cr*p? It looks like a bunch of stuff put together, not like a single system. The BV9/BV5 on the other hand is a piece of art. Even the "freaky" BV8 is nicer looking than the BV7. After Loewe bumped up here, I googled around a bit and the 40" individual looks awesome! Too