SRR
11-20-08, 02:37 AM
Ok I am locked into buying at best buy, have a $500 GC that I bought from a forum for less then it is worth, and I have a coupon (expires next Wed.) that I hope to use, where if I spend $500 I get a $50 gift card which I hope to use on black Friday afternoon on any cheap blu's they may have left. Anyways, with best buy I have found it very hard to really judge a TV because they have that place lit up with millions of watts of halogen light fixtures. My living room is about 1/10 tenth the light :confused: as BB. So sure they all look great in there "torch" settings, but when it comes down to it I am not going to be watching the set I buy near what they have the sets putting out. Ok maybe I just need to get a 600 watt halogen for the living room, so I can watch just like they do at BB.
Ok the choices that did stick out at me, LG 32LG30 since it is onsale this week and it is said you can get the colors looking great on it, that is high on my list of wants. Although Samsung and Panasonic have sets that are only $50 more...with maybe a better over all better rep then LG, but at this low price level does it really matter. Which brings me to the Insignia Plasma 32" I know cheapest Plasma TV in the world. So there has to be something wrong with it? I played with the Insignia and as far as I could tell it did NOT have good blacks, but maybe one of the best buy lighting fixtures was blaring down on it, SO gosh darn hard to tell what a TV is gonna look like in your own home, with that much light shinning down on the TVs. Anyways, $500-600-650ish out the door what are truely the best options at best buy, I am still seeing flashes of light from looking up at all those light fixtures at BB, help :confused::confused::confused:?
Before someone rails on me for buying a 32", this is just for the upstairs living room, talking heads, occasional sit com, rare drama, and some sci-fi. Sources will be DVD, DirecTV, OTA, and an even rare occasion of playing my still functional 3DO lol. Oh I am coming from a 24" Apex CRT...so I know anything will be an improvement but I still like to be a little picky. 2 or less bad pixels, Color, blacks, brightness level needs to be dimer then what I see in Best Buy, in that order I say. And somewhere in there longevity of the set. Sound is not a factor minus, the need to have a Digital out for OTA viewing. I know not all sets have a digital out, so that could be a small but somewhat important deal breaker, cause when it comes down to it I may not watch that much OTA stuff compared to DirecTV, but then...if I have to watch a Packer Game on this 32" cause my projector down stairs pops a lamp, gosh I hope to have a 1080p projector by the time that lamp goes.
I have a 103" screen downstairs for blu-ray, sports, and DVR'd movies from DirecTV.
Ok the choices that did stick out at me, LG 32LG30 since it is onsale this week and it is said you can get the colors looking great on it, that is high on my list of wants. Although Samsung and Panasonic have sets that are only $50 more...with maybe a better over all better rep then LG, but at this low price level does it really matter. Which brings me to the Insignia Plasma 32" I know cheapest Plasma TV in the world. So there has to be something wrong with it? I played with the Insignia and as far as I could tell it did NOT have good blacks, but maybe one of the best buy lighting fixtures was blaring down on it, SO gosh darn hard to tell what a TV is gonna look like in your own home, with that much light shinning down on the TVs. Anyways, $500-600-650ish out the door what are truely the best options at best buy, I am still seeing flashes of light from looking up at all those light fixtures at BB, help :confused::confused::confused:?
Before someone rails on me for buying a 32", this is just for the upstairs living room, talking heads, occasional sit com, rare drama, and some sci-fi. Sources will be DVD, DirecTV, OTA, and an even rare occasion of playing my still functional 3DO lol. Oh I am coming from a 24" Apex CRT...so I know anything will be an improvement but I still like to be a little picky. 2 or less bad pixels, Color, blacks, brightness level needs to be dimer then what I see in Best Buy, in that order I say. And somewhere in there longevity of the set. Sound is not a factor minus, the need to have a Digital out for OTA viewing. I know not all sets have a digital out, so that could be a small but somewhat important deal breaker, cause when it comes down to it I may not watch that much OTA stuff compared to DirecTV, but then...if I have to watch a Packer Game on this 32" cause my projector down stairs pops a lamp, gosh I hope to have a 1080p projector by the time that lamp goes.
I have a 103" screen downstairs for blu-ray, sports, and DVR'd movies from DirecTV.