New TV

[ginnie]

My advice:



- get a 1080 p. If you don't, you'll regret it later. All new TV's today are 1080p I think. But a 720p will definitely be cheaper - for a good reason.



- don't spend a lot on cables. I think the "name" brands are way overpriced. If you don't think your cables are good enough, get some so-called better ones later. But for now use most of your budget for the TV.



- a HD box is great. It could be my imagination but I think non-HD programming looks better through a HD box too. Sports especially, can look stunning in HD.



- hook your TV up to the best sound devices you have!



One great thing too is the ability to hook your laptop or like me, my desktop up to the TV.



For $500 you should be able to get a name brand (Sony, Panasonic, Sharp etc) 32" 1080p LCD.

or up to a 40" budget TV if you want to go that way. I suggest the name brand.

 

[TSD]

I have a 50" Samsung Plasma sitting up on my wall that I purchased from Newegg in February of last year. The television came in TWO days. Shipping was free, I got all the cables and mounting hardware I needed the same day with the television, and I got the television for $400 cheaper than ANY local store, even after purchasing the cables/hardware. Give me a fucking break. Have you ever personally ordered from Newegg? Do you have any specific complaints to share in regards to problems with Newegg? If not, you're about as helpful as herpes to Stu in this thread.



What do people that buy that much shit have to do with Stu making a SINGLE fucking purchase from them?

On top of that look at most of the item reviews on there, even if people get a DOA product be it a TV or whatever, they still praise the shit out of new egg for their handling of the return/replacement.

 

[Pez68]

On top of that look at most of the item reviews on there, even if people get a DOA product be it a TV or whatever, they still praise the shit out of new egg for their handling of the return/replacement.

Exactly.... Probably easier to return a DOA item to newegg than it is to return it to a fucking store.



Btw Stu, the most helpful advice I can give you, is visit those avsforums I linked. You won't find a better AV resource on the internet.



This thread specifically, is very helpful for you: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1230050

 

[R K]

On top of that look at most of the item reviews on there, even if people get a DOA product be it a TV or whatever, they still praise the shit out of new egg for their handling of the return/replacement.

Complaints



complaints



general complaints



It all depends on what you are returning and what they want to tell you the MFR's rules are I guess.

 

[Pez68]

Oh and Stu, don't believe the bullshit about needing 1080p. For a 32" television, and for what you will be using it for, 1080p is pretty much useless. Unless you're going to have a blu-ray player hooked up to it AND you plan on sitting just a few feet away from the television, I would not worry about it at all. You will notice zero difference.



Congratulations RK. You found complaints for an online store(even if the majority of them are from years ago). You can do that for pretty much every store in existence. Want a cookie? I can do the same exact thing for ABT, and I bet I find more complaints. I bet typing in "newegg complaints" into google was really difficult. Why don't you do the same for a reseller of your choosing?

 

[phranchk]

Btw Stu, don't believe the bullshit about needing 1080p. For a 32" television, and for what you will be using it for, 1080p is pretty much useless. Unless you're going to have a blu-ray player hooked up to it AND you plan on sitting just a few feet away from the television, I would not worry about it at all. You will notice zero difference.



Congratulations RK. You found complaints for an online store(even if the majority of them are from years ago). You can do that for pretty much every store in existence. Want a cookie? I can do the same exact thing for ABT, and I bet I find more complaints.

To be fair Pez, you asked him for specifics, well there's specific complaints.

 

[Pez68]

To be fair Pez, you asked him for specifics, well there's specific complaints.

As I said, you can find random complaints for EVERY store in existence. How is that helpful to Stu in the least? It's just RK making a point and waving his dick around, as usual. Did you even click the link? The first one has complaints from 2007... nothing newer than 2008. There is a complaint like every six months on those links.... WOW! I guess I'll never do business with newegg again. Out of the billions and billions of dollars in items they sell, there are some unhappy customers?!?!?! Who would have thought.........

 

[the canadian dream]

Rk can't stop thinking about me it seems.

 

[Chief Walking Stick]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions I'm going to read through the whole thread again. Seems like I have all of the information I need to make an informed decision. Gonna check out that link in a bit, Pez.



Feel free to close it if you want.

 

[R K]

Rk can't stop thinking about me it seems.

Your right.





I'll close it stu.



I might even use my dick to do it. Since I have one.