Have you ever felt a wave of buyer's remorse after that big HDTV purchase? How did it manifest itself?

I've been in the homes of a few people who had just purchased large, expensive HD sets. While watching the set with them, they seemed unusually jittery about their whole viewing experience, picking apart every little flaw in the picture, actively looking for any little thing to complain about.. It was almost as if they were looking for some kind of justification for taking it back to the store.

Does this ring any bells? :rolleyes:

They are perfectionists. As of now, the hardware may be very decent, but the programs the cable companies offer may be compressed too much. In addition, when I look at those in-store HD-DVD and Blu-ray movie demos, I must say the originals contain a lot of artifacts, too.

Have you ever felt a wave of buyer's remorse after that big HDTV purchase? How did it manifest itself?

I've been in the homes of a few people who had just purchased large, expensive HD sets. While watching the set with them, they seemed unusually jittery about their whole viewing experience, picking apart every little flaw in the picture, actively looking for any little thing to complain about.. It was almost as if they were looking for some kind of justification for taking it back to the store.

Does this ring any bells? :rolleyes:

I have not had one ounce of buyer's remorse with my TV.

The first few weeks after bringing my Sharp LC46D62U home, I spent significant time looking for banding and other problems. Didn't find any and just stopped looking for problems. Instead, I concentrate on enjoying our HDTV purchase.

I might be in the minority of consumers. I spent a lot of time researching my target purchase and weighed out the pros/cons/value. Finally, when everything lined up, I pulled the trigger.

For me, if I do experience buyer's remorse, it's usually because I failed to do the research, resulting on high expectations that aren't met.

ft

Have you ever felt a wave of buyer's remorse after that big HDTV purchase? How did it manifest itself?
It all depends where you live and what provider you have. My daughter and son-in-law just moved to Va. Beach, Virginia and got Cox cable. And they just bought a 42" Samsung Plasma with the HD PQ absolutely blowing me away.

I've had D* for 4 years now with a 57"CRT RPTV and their PQ makes me sick that I have D* and its HD Lite. There's no comparison and it makes me wonder about the mindset of D* execs. They have to know about the vast difference and you'd think that Murdoch or someone would have said long ago, "This is a shame and D* has to do something yesterday about our awful HD PQ."

Oh well, I'll stop my rant now and swallow my 4-yrs. old buyers remorse!

For me, if I do experience buyer's remorse, it's usually because I failed to do the research, resulting on high expectations that aren't met.

ft
Exactly. Anytime I have had buyers remorse it was because I didn't research my purchase enough. Or somtimes the research was impossible because the information was not available. With my HDTV I did an enormous amount of research and was incredably pleased with my purchase. However I got my HDTV in August of 2000 when most people had not heard of HDTV. I enjoyed knocking the socks off of my friends when they viewed my HDTV.

Rick R

I got mine for $250 because it was the display model and the last of a discontinued item. Hehehe.

I've been in the homes of a few people who had just purchased large, expensive HD sets. While watching the set with them, they seemed unusually jittery about their whole viewing experience, picking apart every little flaw in the picture, actively looking for any little thing to complain about.. It was almost as if they were looking for some kind of justification for taking it back to the store.

Does this ring any bells? :rolleyes:
Sure does. Back in the early 70's we got our first color television set! We knew it was a good one because it would fry your eyeballs if you looked at it less than six feet away. I guess that's why it had a remote.

What a lousy picture! The flesh tones were too red half the time. Areas of one color would have swirling dots or ghosts in them. It looked like someone was painting colors onto the screen a spray can.

We spent hours on the roof pointing the antenna in every direction trying to get a better picture. We replaced all of the 300 ohm twin lead. Dad adjusted the tint almost as often as he changed channels. I believe that's when I learned that "damn" sounded even better when it follows the word "god". This is the best system those eggheads at RCA could come up with? Eventually he gave up and we all sat much farther than six feet away from the screen so we wouldn't see these things.

In other words, nothing new here! :)

Dad adjusted the tint almost as often as he changed channels.

Of course, that's why we call it NTSC = Never Twice the Same Color! :D