Application?
Movies, Sports, Games?
Which room of the house?
Well Lit living room or Basement?
Viewing distance from seating area?
For the money, I'd honestly think about throwing a little more at the equation and start looking at plasmas as well. They're not much more and you'll get more bang for your buck than with an edge-lit LED screen.
Now I'm a plasma guy, but he might have issues. He said it was a "well lit living room". Might have annoying screen glare from the sun.
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What size are you looking for? 42 inch? I'd steer towards Sony/Samsung if it were my cash. I just like the Sony sets, but Samsung had quite a few that impressed me as well..
Anyone have a suggestion for a LCD/LED for around $1000-1200? I've read reviews online and its kind of overwhelming the amount of choices now.
Thanks.
My suggestion is just to go to your local Best Buy or whatever electronics store you have near you and look at the TVs in action, it is easy since they are all next to each other. that's what I did. walked out with a killer deal too, you just need to make sure whatever unit you choose has many different input ports (important for gamers) and scans at 1080 LCD is best for gaming Plasma is best for movies I would not go with LED they have not perfected it yet and some of them have improper scan rates and movies like Avatar end up looking like soap operas.
I went with LCD and am insanely happy got a 36 for under 600 and the picture is beautiful.
My suggestion is just to go to your local Best Buy or whatever electronics store you have near you and look at the TVs in action, it is easy since they are all next to each other. that's what I did. walked out with a killer deal too, you just need to make sure whatever unit you choose has many different input ports (important for gamers) and scans at 1080 LCD is best for gaming Plasma is best for movies I would not go with LED they have not perfected it yet and some of them have improper scan rates and movies like Avatar end up looking like soap operas.
I went with LCD and am insanely happy got a 36 for under 600 and the picture is beautiful.
yikes
terrible way to shop for TV's. who knows how well the employee set up the TV.
good for relative shopping but not for Picture quality.
Just stay away from Samsung.
Just curious, why is that? Did you have a bad experience with their TVs, or something else. Most people I've talked to recommend their TVs. Is there a specific reason that makes Samsung a worse TV than a Sony, LG, Panasonic, or Sharp?
I've had a Samsung DLP since summer of '07 or '08, and a month ago it broke. Reading on A/V forums with the real nerds turns out it's very common and will happen in that amount of time. Even worse instead of just the lamp dying it was the whole power supply, which would have cost $900 alone had I not an extended warrant. $900, man. Just to fix my TV. Not even including labor.
But what bothered me most is, like I mentioned, how extremely common it is that these TVs last only a few years before an inevitable repair which would cost in the hundreds...and at that point, why not just buy a new TV.
Just left a sour taste in my mouth. Now for the rest of my life, no matter what product it is since Samsung makes more than just TVs, I'll stay away from Samsung.
Don't blame Samsung for that (well you should for THAT but not all their other sets), honestly anything that was made in through the 2000's that is a non-CRT projection was in hindsight an ill-advised purchase. They usually involve that lamp for projecting light that either A) has components get damaged due to heat or B) get damaged due to ultraviolet light. My Sony SXRD started having issues in 4 years due to that, lucky there was a large lawsuit and I was able to get a replacement LCD set.
Mitsubishi, Sony, Samsung, Projection LCD, DLP, doesn't matter who made it or the type of rear projection (non CRT), they all suck balls. If you have one, you're living on borrows time. It's like having a release X360.