Got mine from Sir Vic last night, he gave me the sale price two days in advance as I couldn't visit on weekdays for the actual sale.
Was also very excited I brought it home the same night (I learned that the not-so-small cardboard box can fit on an Innova's second row seat) and immediately installed it with the help of my diminutive commander (it is heavy and its swivel stand needs assembly).
Bought a Sabre stand on sale and an HTIB for the bedroom as well.
First impressions... replacing the bedroom 14" Panasonic TV that I've had since 1996... OMGXOBXHUGELOL 3x increase in diagonal screen size!!!
Attaching its swivel stand was easy (8 screws in total, and the metal swivel stand itself looks very strong even if it has a plastic piano finish). Putting it on an A/V stand requires two people. This was done in less than 10 minutes.
Auto-tuning of channels was not as straightforward... the default Hong Kong (and Asia) auto-tune settings was way off-whack. After trying the other Auto-tune settings, I found that the American CATV got the channel sequence and sound (4.5MHz) better than the ones I've tried. It's not perfect but at least the cable channels are in the right sequence. Anybody have a better way to auto-tune for Philippine cable with this TV?
I had feared that the images on cable would not be nice on such a big screen, but was pleasantly surprised that it came out okay. There's the posterization/pixelization apparent, but a screen this size would magnify any shortcomings in video source. I certainly don't have problems with watching TV on this one. I haven't had the chance to play any HD content yet (busy, busy), but I'm looking forward to that after a few days.
To the S&S showroom people, thanks and sorry late na kayo nag sara kagabi!