Recently my in law's CRT TV died and they bought a Philips 32" LCD TV to replace it. It was a lower end model, this one: http://www.philips.com.my/c/televisions/30...fl3605s_98/prd/

They watch mainly Astro (the normal one, not Beyond). That day I saw it and I noticed the quality for Astro was not bad. Not as good as CRT, but close. This was much better than what I recalled from 2 years back when Astro PQ on LCD TV was really unacceptable. Now at least it's acceptable, though not great.

Are other LCD TVs like that also? Which shop has normal Astro to demo LCD TVs?

The problem lies in the bad signal quality at source. Even if you buy the best HD LCD TV, there is no different in PQ compare to to low end LCD TV.

astro SD channels are watchable, but HD channels are simply superb on HDTV