Mitsubishi Unisen LT46265

Mitsubishi Unisen LT46265 46-Inch LCD TV

If you're a fan of sports or action flicks, you'll want a midsize HDTV that can re-create motion without adding halos of pixels around a fast-moving quarterback or causing buildings to vibrate as the camera swoops past them. The Mitsubishi LT46265 ($2500 as of September 20, 2010) is one such HDTV. In our image quality tests, it earned excellent marks for its handling of motion. The LT46265 did extremely well in our horizontal and diagonal panning tests, which stress a television's resolving capabilities. In an action-packed Blu-ray Disc scene from Mission: Impossible III, however, I noted a slight vibration in a brick wall when the camera moved across it. In our color assessments, the LT46265 performed more than acceptably. Several scenes looked reddish to me, and another judge complained of muted colors. But overall we gave it good color scores. Listening to the LT46265 is even better than looking at it. Mitsubishi puts18 tiny speakers along the bottom of the set to simulate a 5.1 surround-sound system; and though the simulation isn't perfect, it's surprisingly good. The front sound stage sounded as good as a respectable home theater audio--clear, strong, and correctly sourced.