Here is my dilemma: I purchased a Sony 34" XBR 910 about 4 years ago at Circuit City with an extended warranty. Recently I was approved for a television exchange due to a defective tube. They are offering me a Sony 40" XBR4 or $2283 toward a different television. The problem I am having is that my television cabinet has an interior width of 40 1/4" and the XBR4 is 43.1". There are no other televisions at Circuit City that are comparable to the XBR4 given my constraint. Circuit City is also telling me that I have 14 days to pick a new television. What would you do given my circumstances? If I had it my way I would get a 50" Pioneer plasma but that is just not an option.

Thanks,
Nick

The Panasonic TH-42PX80U is 40.2" wide according to the online owners manual, and i think CC carries that. Will they refund the leftover thousand dollars?

Here is my dilemma: I purchased a Sony 34" XBR 910 about 4 years ago at Circuit City with an extended warranty. Recently I was approved for a television exchange due to a defective tube. They are offering me a Sony 40" XBR4 or $2283 toward a different television. The problem I am having is that my television cabinet has an interior width of 40 1/4" and the XBR4 is 43.1". There are no other televisions at Circuit City that are comparable to the XBR4 given my constraint. Circuit City is also telling me that I have 14 days to pick a new television. What would you do given my circumstances? If I had it my way I would get a 50" Pioneer plasma but that is just not an option.

Thanks,
Nick

Get liberated and throw the cabinet out for three reasons: they are ugly, they testify about the advanced age of the owner and they can kill your new set due to overheating. How would like to be stuffed in a cabinet while dissipating 300 watts, even with the door open?

I, too, vote for getting rid of the cabinet.

I third nixing the cabinet.

Televisions are sweet!!

Unfortunately, getting rid of the cabinet does not meet the wife approval. :) Trust me I would love to...

Do what I did, put the TV on top of the cabinet. I use the big empty space for my PS3 and some HD DVDs and BDs.

Unfortunately, getting rid of the cabinet does not meet the wife approval. :) Trust me I would love to...Can the cabinet be modified to accept a larger TV?

Can you relocate the TV somewhere else and let the wife put something pretty in the cabinet's empty space?

Unfortunately, getting rid of the cabinet does not meet the wife approval. :) Trust me I would love to...

Somehow I knew it is about your wife as no guy would ever buy anything like a TV coffin. That is why I gave you Reason 2: it looks dated and makes the owners look dated. No woman wants to look or feel dated. This should be a winning argument. Isn't coming here for advice fun?

1. Post a picture of your cabinet.

2. Leave a day or two for forum members to comment.

3. Print out an edited selection of comments for wife.

4. Purchase whatever size display you prefer.


I will be happy to comment upon these awful and outdated 4:3 ready cabinets - whatever they look like.

Create a small fire in the cabinet.

"Whoops honey, look like we have to get rid of it..."

Alternatively, take her somewhere like Tweeter or a Magnolia A/V (or, if it comes down to it, a Magnolia HT in a Best Buy with a good demo room) and show her how good a mounted TV CAN look.

It's one thing to show her pictures, it's another to show her what it really looks like.

Well looks like my wife and I have agreed to get a new tv console. So would you get the 40" XBR4 or what for $2283?

Well looks like my wife and I have agreed to get a new tv console. So would you get the 40" XBR4 or what for $2283?

It's sad that Circuit City doesn't have Pioneer as that would give the closest feel of the XBR CRT. Almost no LCDs have the motion resolution, response time, or deep blacks that the XBR CRTs had. The Pioneer Kuros would be the closest. I would say that the Panasonic 50PZ85U is probably the best bang you're going to get for your bucks.

Well looks like my wife and I have agreed to get a new tv console. So would you get the 40" XBR4 or what for $2283?

That amount will get you KDL46W4100.