Nothing formal about the atmosphere, you casually said they sucked and listed no specific models either so that's all people had to go on. Everything else came after. I don't really see the problem, I would expect people to comment on how I concluded that too if it was me. Anyway it's really not a big deal, if you did research then that's more than 99.9% of consumers so more power to you, I just don't agree that they weren't competitive quality televisions. To me Sony's biggest problem was price point.
Now if you dissed Panasonic plasmas then we've got a problem!