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Happened to notice that several of the other Sanyo picture tube sets are also made in the USA when I was out shopping the other day. The 30 inch widescreen one really isn't a bad set not gonna find many other USA built HDTVs so the choice is kinda limited.

Actually though I've seen better picture quality in picture tube sets (though it was on more expensive sets, most of which have been discontinued), these TVs have a surprisingly good feature set for the price. My biggest gripe is that is isn't the clearest picture through the component inputs. It looks fine through the HDMI or over the air HD, but if I was watching strictly SD, or was stuck with an HD service from a cable company where they disable the HDMI/DVI ports (not in this area but I've heard that some areas/companies do do such things), this would not be my choice.

I don't see any reason it should look bad through components but my Samsung 27 inch HD looks far superior, as do my Sony 42 incher (LCD microdisplay), and my iLo 32 inch LCD (not the current one the old monitor version they used to sell, which was made by someone else and despite being more than a year older it looks much better, personally I'd never have bought this if it wasn't dirt cheap). It might be the scalers in them, or other video processing components, but this TV is not the one to watch from component video.

Still if you don't mind the weight (its heavy) or CRT this is a reasonable set. Being USA built is just a bonus, when I first saw these at the price even when they first came out, I thought for sure they'd be from China. I bought it without knowing where it as made and you should have seen how surprised I first was when I saw these were from the USA.