We watch mostly analog tv off the cable, and also some digital tv through the set-top box. When shopping for a new TV we went ahead and got a big one with new technology. I was prepared for disappointment when we fired it up because I had read and seen examples of very poor off-air analog performance in new digital sets. But to my big surprise our new TV shows analog cable signals much better than our old Sony 32 inch CRT set. Clarity, colour depth, focus, accuracy, sound, pretty much everything is improved except maybe brightness which is slightly less. The new set is a Samsung DLP unit, 56 inchs. We watch it from about 9 feet away. It is terrific with analog signals. It appears to be doubling the lines automatically which fills in very nicely and smooths out the picture. Also, the DLP function doesn't have any screen-door effect (you can't discern individual pixels) and I really like that. The only annoying thing is that we watch everything with black bars on the sides because the images are not 16:9, wastes some of the screen for sure. And to make things more annoying, more and more tv stations intentionally letterbox their shows even further knowing that many watchers are using "zoom" on their new sets to fill the screen. So they put black bars on top and bottom too! In those cases, our picture is the equivalent of a about a 46 inch conventional screen!