Where is the best place to purchase a TV?

[svelte]

[quote=blake][quote=DataAgent][quote=JACKQLYN]Now, is ordering online better?
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Amazon charges no sales tax. That’s a 9% savings. Also free shipping on some TVs. Prices are usually very competitive with Costco.[/quote]

Agreed. I bought a TV from Amazon. Delivered with no sales tax and no CA recycling fee.[/quote]

We bought a 65 in flat screen from Amazon..best TV purchase we’ve ever made. Delivery and installation were superb.

Another thing to do is use the reviews on Amazon…they clued me in to the fact that the prices on TVs change daily so we were patient and by watching the prices about a week, found a point where prices had dropped 4 or 5 hundred dollars and then bought. Worked out very well.

PS – plasma’s days are numbered. Even Pioneer is pulling out of that market.

[Anonymous]

Oh! I think you have already got a variety of information regarding the best place to buy television……. so leaving apart all these i only suggest you to please have a cool study of the products accessories. Whenever your going to buy a LCD or LED or PLASMA just take care whether its perfect wall mounts are available in market or not. Likewise many things are there to consider i.e. thorough study of manuals, other cable accessories, etc

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[LAAFTERHOURS]

[quote=powercables]Oh! I think you have already got a variety of information regarding the best place to buy television……. so leaving apart all these i only suggest you to please have a cool study of the products accessories. Whenever your going to buy a LCD or LED or PLASMA just take care whether its perfect wall mounts are available in market or not. Likewise many things are there to consider i.e. thorough study of manuals, other cable accessories, etc

power cables[/quote]

Monoprice.com – Never use any other place to buy mounts or cables.

[profhoff]

Amazon has great prices, but their rate of delivery defects is I think too high and with such a large, big-ticket item, it’s risky.

Costco is better because you can order online return to the store no questions asked or just pick it up in the store and return to store if you aren’t satisfied.

To figure out the best time to pull the trigger, Decide.com is a fantastic website and now app to monitor the probability of price drops in electronics.

What many people do is gather the model numbers available at Costco, then use Amazon reviews to narrow down your choices and then use Costco for the actual purchase. This is less risky until Amazon can improve the damage rate on big-ticket electronics deliveries.

Downside of sticking with Costco is that they only have certain models. But you have to do your research because usually the end-cap TVs are not the best ones.

[Fearful]

This is a video monitor we are talking about, right?

Jeez, less than a decade ago I was the first guy on the block with a FLAT PANEL TV.

Six grand I paid for the damn thing. 42″ NEC. But how wonderful it was to have a picture that was flat and square, without a two hundred pound tube breaking my furniture.

The differences anyone is arguing about nowadays are nothing compared to the difference that plasma and LCD presented when they were first introduced.

Just buy a TV, turn it off, and go get a life.

[paramount]

This is what I took away from CES 2012:

* 3-D is all but on it’s way out; at least it won’t be on the top of many shoppers lists. 3-D was a fad.

* OLED should be out in the fall, and as I understand the picture blows away anything out there today. Since it is new it’s big $$.

* TV’s are becoming computers (convergence).

* The TV manufacturers are trying just about anything to get you to buy a new TV. The 3-D thing didn’t work.

[poorgradstudent]

[quote=paramount]This is what I took away from CES 2012:
* 3-D is all but on it’s way out; at least it won’t be on the top of many shoppers lists. 3-D was a fad.
* OLED should be out in the fall, and as I understand the picture blows away anything out there today. Since it is new it’s big $$.
* TV’s are becoming computers (convergence).
* The TV manufacturers are trying just about anything to get you to buy a new TV. The 3-D thing didn’t work.[/quote]
3D prices have already crashed. Let’s face it, the glasses are annoying, there isn’t that much content out there and the payoff isn’t that amazing, and that’s assuming you don’t get headaches.

Built in wifi sounds nice, but it seems like most tvs don’t really capitalize on it beyond “if you pay for Netflix or Hulu Plus you can use it without an additional box”. I agree there’s definitely a trend towards television and computers converging long term. Some of us have been using HDMI cables to stream content from our computers to big screens for a while now. I look forward to the day when it’s easy to fling content between devices wirelessly.

It sounded like the biggest market for TVs this past Christmas was people who already own a flatscreen and wanted one in an additional room, such as bedroom. Similar to the PC boom and bust of the late 90s/early 2000s, we’ve reached the point in the cycle when most people who want a flatscreen have one, and there isn’t much incentive to upgrade. Maybe OLED or additional computer-like features will change that as the economy continues improving.

[paramount]

[quote=poorgradstudent]
It sounded like the biggest market for TVs this past Christmas was people who already own a flatscreen and wanted one in an additional room, such as bedroom. Similar to the PC boom and bust of the late 90s/early 2000s, we’ve reached the point in the cycle when most people who want a flatscreen have one, and there isn’t much incentive to upgrade. Maybe OLED or additional computer-like features will change that as the economy continues improving.[/quote]

TV’s seem to be more like washing machines than computers when it comes to consumer buying patterns.

They generally last a long time and there has to be a really compelling reason to update/upgrade.

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