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This. Any antenna will work (provided you can hook it up to your tv)

Very nice!! Anytime you have windows behind you there's going to be a glare issue. I'm don't remember which it is but I think the LCD's handle glare better than plasmas but you'll find the colors are much better & more true w/ a plasma

Where I live in Az, you need the HD antenna, rabbit ears do not work, someimes the HD antenna didn't work. Where I lived growing up in Edwardsville, rabbit ears rarely worked. Just trying to be helpeful.

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You don't need an "HD" antenna...you just need an antenna with more gain. Get a nice log-periodic antenna, point it to the tower, and you should be set.

That's why I have Derect TV, so I don't have to have a [expletive] antenna, HD or otherwise.

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Just a big satellite dish?

And karp is correct in that LCDs tend to have less glare versus a plasma, but plasmas have a much better quality picture. I got the best of both worlds in my Panasonic Viera plasma, which has a matte glass screen - so it actually has less glare than most LCDs, but retains the picture quality of a plasma.

So i'm in the market for a new TV. I'm thinking about a 55" Samsung LED like this one:
http://goo.gl/XFSIj
or
http://goo.gl/OimgP

Anyone have any recommendations?

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We have one now. LED with Uverse HD. Here was our research - go to Target, look at the ones on the wall. Ask a few questions. Buy. 15 minutes. I had read here and heard different conversations about what is best for low light, sports, movies...but didn't pay much attention.

About old movies on this TV. I wasn't expecting such a difference, considering the technology in which the movies were filmed is unchanged. A google search on this topic, and I see people have been complaining about this for a while - and notice the same thing I do - "soap opera effect". Apparantly from the backlighting. That crispness takes something away from the technicolor.

I think we'll like it for sports. In fact, -they don't design the graphics for score/time etc in sporting events to be readable on non-HDTVs. Over T-Giving 3 of us were trying to look at the picture to figure out time left on a football game (about a 31 in 10 year old TV) and drew 3 different conclusions. I had to check on my phone to figure it out.

That room gets a lot of southern light, and I don't like to pull the blinds much - so the backlighting will help. Still have the old behemoth to watch movies in the basement.

Looks like we'll be in the market soon. Our 2007 Panasonic 42" plasma has a pink bar down the middle of the screen. I'm going to call them to see if it's fixable, but from what I've googled it probably needs a new board of some sort.

With today's prices, I can't see repairing over replacing.

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"I love to play this game of baseball - I love putting on this uniform."

After a few weeks I didn't even notice the glare anymore. The tv autoadjusts to its surroundings as well, so that's a big help. While there is a slight glare, it's not enough to annoy me (and I get annoyed easily).

All in all, no regrets at all. The price was right for a big screen, so I almost HAD to buy it. 'Merica.

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