Big screen TV

[ByronBob]

Sears has a 2 year no interest deal on TV's over 40" in size. We need a new one as ours is old and won't accept the digital adjustment.

So I'm looking at a Visio 50" and wondered if I should get the extended warranty.

Comments please gents.

Thanks Bob

[czechsonofagun]

I was in Costco yesterday and it is full of Visio. What suprised me, how much the price dropped.

Sorry, can't really give you any advice, we are still stuck on old glass tube.

[EarPlug]

Bob,

Visio has been getting poor reviews. When I was shopping for a new LCD we compared the Visio to all the other brands and when looking at them side by side the Visio had the weakest picture, bland blacks and the poorest color. I ended up with a Samsung. Also liked the Sharp Aquos. Costco.com has a 52" Sharp for $1499 right now.

Jack

[MossRoad]

Originally Posted by ByronBob

Sears has a 2 year no interest deal on TV's over 40" in size. We need a new one as ours is old and won't accept the digital adjustment.

So I'm looking at a Visio 50" and wondered if I should get the extended warranty.

Comments please gents.

Thanks Bob

Here's my comment on zero % financing...
It is only no interest if you remember to pay it off in time. Lot's of folks forget and that is why so many companies run "zero interest" ad campaigns. So, just remember to pay and you will be O.K.

Next comment is regarding digital conversion...
I have never seen a T.V. that you cannot hook up to a digital converter box. If it has an antenna connection, you can hook up the converter box. If it is just a monitor with no tuner, you can still hook up the converter box. Cheap converter boxes cost about $40.00, the same price as the government coupon that you can get for free. I bought $57.00 boxes and used my Government issued coupons for $40.00, so it was a whopping $17.00 per box.

[mjarrels]

About a month ago, Crutchfield had a three day sale on most of their HD TV's. I went during the last half hour of the last day and got an even bigger discount!

mark

[jwstewar]

I agree what Mossy is saying, but if you are wanting a flat panel TV and telling the wifey that it won't take the converter box, I won't tell.

Now on to the TV. We have bought several in the past few months. The great room TV is our "good" TV that is the one I researched and spent forever agonizing over. I ended up with a Samsung 52" 650 Series. OMG!!! Awesome TV. All of the other TVs were "impulse" in we found a good buy and bought on the spot. We bought the kids a Plasma 50" Insignia from Best Buy (floor model, but had only been on display for 2 weeks). This is where they play their PS2 & Wii. It is hooked to the Satellite but rarely used. Not quite as nice as the Sammy, but not bad. Our office ended up with a 42" Hitachi. Again a nice TV, but not as clear as either the Insignia and several degrees lesser than the Samsung. For the kids' bedrooms we got them 32" Vizio. Nice bedroom TVs, but I wouldn't want them to be my main TV. Not quite as nice as color and not as crisp.

Had I not gotten the Samsung, I probably would've ended up with LG & Sony. The Sharp was nice too. Leave those 4 and that is where you can start seeing the drop in my opinion.

[Bird]

Originally Posted by ByronBob

Sears has a 2 year no interest deal on TV's over 40" in size. We need a new one as ours is old and won't accept the digital adjustment.

So I'm looking at a Visio 50" and wondered if I should get the extended warranty.

Comments please gents.

Thanks Bob

I don't know anything about televisions, but my younger daughter and her husband bought two new 50" Visios 7 or 8 months ago when they got married and bought a house. They mounted both of them on the wall; one upstairs in the game room and one downstairs in the living room. They look good to me.

As for the financing deal, I bought a new 40" Samsung HD/LCD TV for our living room and an Insignia 22" HD/LCD TV for the bedroom, and a new VCR/DVD recorder about 7 months ago at Best Buy, and got the 2 year no interest deal. As I said, I don't know anything about them, so I did pay for the extended warranties. Overall, I spent just over $2,200.00 and I've been making monthly payments of $22, then the last few at $21. I'm not sure how they came up with those amounts, but it's OK with me.

And I agree completely with MossRoad. I never would have bought the stuff if I didn't already have the money in the bank to pay it in full anytime. If you should fail to pay it off within that 2 years, you don't even want to know what kind of interest you'll get hit with. Read the fine print and it'll scare you.

[ultrarunner]

A good friend bought Samsung 52" 650 Series for his bar after doing a lot or research.

[randy41]

I've got a Samsung 40" lcd. Its the only TV in the house. It works real good. Vizio is a discount brand but if you have nothing to compare it to then you wouldn't know what you're missing if anything.

[EddieWalker]

We planning on buying a flat screen right after Christmas. We don't need it right now, so that seems like a really good time to buy. Of course, with all electronics, the longer you wait, the less they cost.

Eddie