![]() Ports on the TX-42F450S are within easy reach on the left and right sides of the rear chassis. When we sampled Netflix video streamed movies, we forgot we were watching streaming video on a bargain HDTV. Blacks weren't quite as deep as we would have liked, but that wasn't a huge biggie. The Dark Knight's brightest colors held their vibrancy. Standard-def DVDs upconverted to 1080p were surprisingly stunning in quality, but it really was Blu-ray where the TV excelled. This issue was easily remedied, though, when we used the easy-to-navigate menu options to reset noise reduction to high (it's switched off in the factory settings). Darker colors fared poorer with pixilated image noise and occasional speckling of middle hues. When patched into an HD feed, bright colors popped and were well saturated even on the default settings. And while it does not perform as superbly as its higher price brethren from Sony, Samsung and Sharp, it still shows off a completely acceptable high-def image and above average sound. In our tests, we threw all things digital at this 68-pound slab. How could a low-budget company like Westinghouse offer up such high resolution for so little? It's no misprint, so naturally we had to get a test unit in to see for ourselves if the company could produce a true HDTV for hundreds less than its competition. When we first heard Westinghouse Digital was making a 42-inch 1080p HDTV for $700, our eyes bugged out. ![]()
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