Advice on TV Purchase

[diggitydot]

Yeah, the Panasonic plasma has a great picture. I like that we can adjust all the settings ans ave favorites.

[SuzySunshine]

Ok DH is home now so I can give you real information - ours is a Panasonic 600Hz Plasma, 50" and we've had it for probably 2 1/2 years and we really like it. We got a bundle with a Blue-Ray player from Best Buy and got a good deal. DH always does his homework before he buys big electronics.

[Vanquisher]

My only advice on buying a TV is this: don't send my husband or you will end up with something twice the size and four times the price of whatever it is you decide upon.

J.

This is more true of me than dh. I'm a t.v. whore. Our main tv is a 64" samsung. Our bedroom tv is a 47" vizio. I like both.

[v-girl]

I've never bought a tv. Our "newer" one is a hand-me-down from DH's grandma. Made in '99. Older one was a gift from grandma in '97. LOL

[Thirteen]

I've never bought a tv. Our "newer" one is a hand-me-down from DH's grandma. Made in '99. Older one was a gift from grandma in '97. LOL

Me neither! I always seem to inherit them.
We went with a 42" LG LCD-Plasma (1080p 120Hz) from Amazon. Uber uber affordable, as compared with all the other "bargains" we encountered. Hooray for awesome prices!

[oceanchild]

Our LG seems to be serving us well!

My biggest complaint about these flat TVs is the sound sucks! So whatever you get I suggest a set of speakers to go with it.

This is probably our next purchase (or Christmas present), too.

[peggyfromwastate]

I have a question-- do the warranties on these tvs follow them on a move? We are moving this summer, and I don't want to show the house for sale with our old huge cathode ray tv and entertainment center. It looks very ugly. But if we get a new flat screen, I'm not sure it would survive the move very well. Have any of you moved one of these tvs with success? Or is it ok to have the eyesore tv and truly ugly 12 year old entertainment center dominating our living room???

[SuzySunshine]

We moved ours with no issue. Kept the box and reused it, no issues at all.

[corn poffi]

Ditto what suzysunshine said. I got mine in January and have already moved it three times without issue! Just keep the box and packaging products.

[MarissaNicole]

No problem moving ours either.

[SuzySunshine]

Oh yes and KEEP the box because if you have to buy a specific TV box to move it in they are a couple hundred dollars!

[Michele]

Russ moved ours from Dallas just wrapped in a blanket with that moving Saran wrap stuff in the backseat of his car towed behind the truck. (the box was ratted)

[scrub-jay]

Russ moved ours from Dallas just wrapped in a blanket with that moving Saran wrap stuff in the backseat of his car towed behind the truck. (the box was ratted)

We've done something similar and had no issues.

[Thirteen]

We have our box and packaging material. I am so so so anti-save any "recyclables" since we moved, but I think DH had a good point, so we kept it.
Good to know that the consensus is in favor of this.
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Also, we were confused for a good week about the picture quality ("Why isn't it good?!") until we realized that we didn't have the right cables hooked up to our FIOS.
#CableDummy

[peggyfromwastate]

I am afraid of all the cables lol. But I really want to get rid of our entertainment center. We bought it from sears when we were just married. We've moved it from a top floor apartment to a ranch style house then across the country to this house. It has little pieces broken off here and there lol. And it's all childishness in random places (sine latches fit some don't). It's not moving with us!!!! Dh still says - we can't get rid of that! It still works... Lol. He can move it againif he wants to jeep it then! Maybe we should just go tv-less instead...