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Vizio lower price
On my last visit to Costco I noticed that they dropped the price
on 37" Vizio to $760. I paid $800 four months ago. Cass |
Vizio lower price
I had a Vizio and returned it. The picture quality and sound were
great, but it had two minor things that annoyed me: (1) After autoscan, you could not add weak channels. I have some stations to the northwest and some to the southwest. I had to autoscan whenever I rotated the antenna. Although this was infrequent, it was annoying. If you have cable or satellite, this is not an issue. (2) Their Picture-in-Picture (PIP) did not support two ATSC tuners. At least one of the PIP's had to be an analog NTSC station. (Note: I don't know if anyone makes a TV with two ATSC tuners for PIP. At the time of my purchase, I couldn't find any) |
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On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 07:11:34 -0700 NadCixelsyd wrote:
| (2) Their Picture-in-Picture (PIP) did not support two ATSC tuners. | At least one of the PIP's had to be an analog NTSC station. (Note: I | don't know if anyone makes a TV with two ATSC tuners for PIP. At the | time of my purchase, I couldn't find any) Now that would be an interesting question to ask of the sales droids in the stores. Ask them to demo the PIP feature. See how they handle it when all they have is the one in-store source all the TVs show. -- |---------------------------------------/----------------------------------| | Phil Howard KA9WGN (ka9wgn.ham.org) / Do not send to the address below | | first name lower case at ipal.net / | |------------------------------------/-------------------------------------| |
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NadCixelsyd ) wrote:
: I had a Vizio and returned it. The picture quality and sound were : great, but it had two minor things that annoyed me: : (1) After autoscan, you could not add weak channels. I have some : stations to the northwest and some to the southwest. I had to : autoscan whenever I rotated the antenna. Although this was : infrequent, it was annoying. If you have cable or satellite, this is : not an issue. : (2) Their Picture-in-Picture (PIP) did not support two ATSC tuners. : At least one of the PIP's had to be an analog NTSC station. (Note: I : don't know if anyone makes a TV with two ATSC tuners for PIP. At the : time of my purchase, I couldn't find any) Life is full of compromises and I found this Xizio to satisfy most of my requirements. BTW I never saw a TV where you can add selectable channels after scanning. How would you be able to enter e.g.. 13-3? Cass |
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On 4 Aug 2007 17:03:17 GMT Cass Lewart wrote:
| NadCixelsyd ) wrote: | : I had a Vizio and returned it. The picture quality and sound were | : great, but it had two minor things that annoyed me: | : (1) After autoscan, you could not add weak channels. I have some | : stations to the northwest and some to the southwest. I had to | : autoscan whenever I rotated the antenna. Although this was | : infrequent, it was annoying. If you have cable or satellite, this is | : not an issue. | : (2) Their Picture-in-Picture (PIP) did not support two ATSC tuners. | : At least one of the PIP's had to be an analog NTSC station. (Note: I | : don't know if anyone makes a TV with two ATSC tuners for PIP. At the | : time of my purchase, I couldn't find any) | | Life is full of compromises and I found this Xizio to satisfy | most of my requirements. BTW I never saw a TV where you can add | selectable channels after scanning. How would you be able to | enter e.g.. 13-3? It would be nice to have such a TV. So who makes the decision to design the TV software to prevent you from making it at least _try_ a channel to be added to the list of channels it knows of? BTW, I work in the software business, and have seen so many programmers _and_ technical managers that are just absolutely clueless. It is a tossup whether it be the programmers (software engineers) or the management that is the culprit in not having basic capabilities like this. Certainly if you expect to enter the PSIP identity and find the channel, that's going to require a lookup of the known channels, and if it is not their then a fallback to a re-scan if you want to spend the time to do it. But if you did want to do a re-scan, it would also be nice to have a scan that would only _add_ that channel, and absolutely NOT remove any channel that happens to not be coming across at the moment. Most stations do not go off the air at night anymore, but a small few still do, especially on Sunday nights for some reason. And then there are people with rotating antennas. And I wonder if any of the dual-analog-coax cable systems that have converted to digital chose to keep both sets of coax so they could have double the digital bandwidth (switching externally between coaxes on such a system would sure confuse most, if not all, of the tuner scan logics out there). A 2 RF-input TV (I've been told via followup in this group that a certain Sony set has this, but I have been unable to find it on the Sony website) could do the trick. It should accept both 8VSB and QAM as well as OTA and Cable channeling on both inputs. -- |---------------------------------------/----------------------------------| | Phil Howard KA9WGN (ka9wgn.ham.org) / Do not send to the address below | | first name lower case at ipal.net / | |------------------------------------/-------------------------------------| |
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On Aug 2, 3:34 pm, (Cass Lewart) wrote:
On my last visit to Costco I noticed that they dropped the price on 37" Vizio to $760. I paid $800 four months ago. Cass I've had a 37" Vizio LCD for about 2 years abd LOVE it...odds are VERY high my next set will also be a Vizio...really tough to beat the prices.. Keith http://www.eHDMI.com |
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Question for you Vizio owners, every time I go to Costco I see more people
returning Vizio sets than going out also what is the deal with the humming sound that I keep reading about? I was set on the Hitachi as it had good quality reports every time I read up on it but after seeing it at Sears side by side with the rest of the sets the colors look dull and faded compare to even the Vizio. I'm looking/willing to spend around 1300-1700 bucks on a plasma set any thoughts recommendations? Like most folks I'm looking for the most bang for my buck and the reliability to go with the bang... Thanks "eHDMI" wrote in message oups.com... On Aug 2, 3:34 pm, (Cass Lewart) wrote: On my last visit to Costco I noticed that they dropped the price on 37" Vizio to $760. I paid $800 four months ago. Cass I've had a 37" Vizio LCD for about 2 years abd LOVE it...odds are VERY high my next set will also be a Vizio...really tough to beat the prices.. Keith http://www.eHDMI.com |
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TopHaT ) wrote:
: Question for you Vizio owners, every time I go to Costco I see more people : returning Vizio sets than going out also what is the deal with the humming : sound that I keep reading about? The reason people are returning them is the stupid CostCo policy. They guarantee the price for 30 days but you can return the item for 90 days. In other words to get the lower prices within 30-90 day period you have to return your TV, get the full refund of the higher price and then buy it at a lower price. BTW I had my Vizio 37" for 5 months and am very happy with it. Rxcellent picture and a full complement of inputs incl. RGB for my laptop. Cass |
Vizio lower price or you get what you pay for!!!
Thanks for the input Cass. Man I can't belief people are so cheap that they
will go to the trouble of packing and returning a set and then unpacking and setting up the new one to get 50 bucks back. What about the humming I keep reading about? Does yours hummmsss? I keep reading that it's from the back of the set and loud enough to be very bothersome. Thanks "Cass Lewart" wrote in message ... TopHaT ) wrote: : Question for you Vizio owners, every time I go to Costco I see more people : returning Vizio sets than going out also what is the deal with the humming : sound that I keep reading about? The reason people are returning them is the stupid CostCo policy. They guarantee the price for 30 days but you can return the item for 90 days. In other words to get the lower prices within 30-90 day period you have to return your TV, get the full refund of the higher price and then buy it at a lower price. BTW I had my Vizio 37" for 5 months and am very happy with it. Rxcellent picture and a full complement of inputs incl. RGB for my laptop. Cass |
Vizio lower price or you get what you pay for!!!
"TopHaT" wrote in message ... snip Like most folks I'm looking for the most bang for my buck and the reliability to go with the bang... Speak to your congressperson. It seems many of them know how to get the most bang for your buck. |
Vizio lower price or you get what you pay for!!!
TopHaT ) wrote:
: Thanks for the input Cass. Man I can't belief people are so cheap that they : will go to the trouble of packing and returning a set and then unpacking and : setting up the new one to get 50 bucks back. : What about the humming I keep reading about? Does yours hummmsss? I keep : reading that it's from the back of the set and loud enough to be very : bothersome. : Thanks There is no hum in my set. I hooked it up to my HiFi with 5 speakers and a subwoofer. The effect is like sitting in a concert hall. Cass |
Vizio lower price or you get what you pay for!!!
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Vizio lower price
BTW I never saw a TV where you can add selectable channels after scanning. How would you be able to enter e.g.. 13-3? Cass I have two Philips and one Panasonic. Each is capable of adding stations after autoscan, but you must know the real channel number. In my area, digital channel 28 broadcasts on channel 22. Let's assume autoscan failed to pick up this channel. On the Panasonic, I manually tune to channel 22 and all the 28.x stations are added to my listing. On the Philips, one must be in weak- channel-installation mode before tuning to channel 22. On each, I then have to manually delete the ones I do not want. |
Vizio lower price or you get what you pay for!!!
"TopHaT" wrote:
Question for you Vizio owners, every time I go to Costco I see more people returning Vizio sets than going out also what is the deal with the humming sound that I keep reading about? I was set on the Hitachi as it had good quality reports every time I read up on it but after seeing it at Sears side by side with the rest of the sets the colors look dull and faded compare to even the Vizio. I'm looking/willing to spend around 1300-1700 bucks on a plasma set any thoughts recommendations? Like most folks I'm looking for the most bang for my buck and the reliability to go with the bang... Thanks Certainly, the 'you get what you pay for' slogan is usually 100% true. That having been said, I recently replaced my dead 12 year old standard def RCA with a Vizio VX32L and have no regrets. To be frank, it was the cheapest set that I could find in that size with a decent picture. I originally brought home a Sylvania from Circuit City. What a piece of crap! It went back the next day and was replaced with the Vizio. The picture from an HD source (720p or 1080i) is stunning. There are enough inputs to choke a horse. My god, there are 47 buttons on the remote. It has PIP, although the selection of what 2 sources you can watch simultaneously is a little funky, eg, you can't view a composite input like VCR alongside the TV tuner input. As far as the humming, I believe that some owners have complained about noise from the backlight circuit when the brightness is turned down. I haven't experienced that. Not wanting to stagnate in my cheapness, I found a Philips 3960 upconverting DVD player with HDMI output at Walmart for $45. It's a solid little player with just one or 2 aggravating features. Shoot the output from the Philips to the Vizio and you have one cheap (faux) high def viewing experience. N.Morrow |
Vizio lower price or you get what you pay for!!!
Cass Lewart ) wrote:
: TopHaT ) wrote: : : Thanks for the input Cass. Man I can't belief people are so cheap that they : : will go to the trouble of packing and returning a set and then unpacking and : : setting up the new one to get 50 bucks back. Never underestimate the will of the American public to save a buck. Cass |
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