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Setting up the Sony S series TV is pretty straightforward -- you place the stand where you like, lift the TV on it, and tighten 4 screws. It can also be wall mounted. On the back of the Sony S series TV are the wide range of inputs: three HDMI, two component, one S-Video, two standard video (RCA jacks) and one VGA port. You can be sure that whatever you have, you'll be able to connect it to this Bravia TV.

The best quality of output and convenience comes from HDMI connections (buy some low cost HDMI cables from Amazon; my local stores asked for $50-$179!) A Blu-ray DVD player connected to the Sony S series TV via HDMI produces outstanding picture quality at 1080p, with amazing detail. It's so good, in fact, that I am noticing film grain more often -- you can practically count the grains!

This Sony S series TV supports 24 frames-per-second ("24p" in the jargon), which matches the screen refresh rate used in movies. The visible difference comes up in shots when the camera pans (moves parallel to the scene). With regular TV playback, panning blurs the scene and you can't see much detail because extra "interpolated" frames are inserted to match the TV frame rate. Panning shots in blu-ray "Casino Royale" were clear at 24p, and revealed some visual jokes I previously missed (e.g. the Richard Branson cameo at airport security). For watching movies like The Bourne Ultimatum with plenty of camera movement, 24p on the Sony S Series TV makes the whole movie clearer.

Screen contrast on the Sony S series TV is also very good. Blacks look black, color's not overdone (though there is a "vivid" setting if you want to increase saturation). Lower resolution sources at 480i appear pretty good -- they are upscaled nicely by this Bravia HDTV. Connecting a Wii with the standard video cables worked fine and delivered a good picture.

For HDTV sources, the Sony S series TV has excellent noise reduction and yet still produces crisp detail and good color. This is where other LCD TVs fail, and Sony really has done an excellent job with the Bravia engine.

Sound from the Sony S series TV's internal speakers is very good indeed, with dialogue being particularly clear. Home theater speakers are better of course, but then that's true for any TV.

Well I'm super satisified with the Sony S series TV for the following reasons.

1. Ease of set up. I don't have cable and it just scanned for all the HD programming and analog stations and that's pretty much about it.
2. Great sound. I don't have a stereo system to hook up the Sony S series TV to and so it's important that my Bravia LCD HDTV's speakers could, well, speak for themselves. They are really good.
3. Picture is super and appears to adjust itself to suit whatever type of input (HD, Analog, DVD, Video) is coming in. People don't appear short and squat. Everything looks great, and full size and I don't need to do any adjusting when changing a channel.

Note: I will say that watching a standard video tape displays an okay picture, but I assume this is the same for every HDTV. When I watch DVD movies using my computer and connect to the Sony S series TV with HDMI cable, picture is excellent. So just using the antenna cable is not good enough with my current DVD player. I will probably upgrade it or just use it through my computer.

Also, as other reviews mentioned, set up (base mount) was easy. Slide it on base and tighten four screws.

Anyway, I am sure I'm not using 75% of the features of this baby, but for the "simple cave man HDTV Guy" I am completely satisfied.

Also, The Sony S Series TV doesn't make buzzing or humming sounds (hey, that stuff bugs me so I thought I'd add it).

Good luck with your purchase.