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HDTV confusion
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I visited Best Buy and the three TV on my list are Mitsu 55313 Toshiba 57H83 Samsung 5529WH Any suggestions. Should i buy the extended warranty. I plan on using my visa card and visa doubles the manufactures warranty. Guys what are your thoughts on the above TVs. The best buy sales also was pushing his monster surge protectors. Does that really improve picture quality. Let me know thanks |
"david" wrote in message m... hi I visited Best Buy and the three TV on my list are Mitsu 55313 Toshiba 57H83 Samsung 5529WH Any suggestions. Should i buy the extended warranty. I plan on using my visa card and visa doubles the manufactures warranty. Guys what are your thoughts on the above TVs. The best buy sales also was pushing his monster surge protectors. Does that really improve picture quality. While I can't make any recomendations on the 3 tv's ( although you might want to have a look at the hitachis also ), a surge protector likely isn't going to make a difference in the picture quality. I'm quite willing to bet a decent regular surge protector does as good of a job of surge protection as the monster at probably half the price. Monster seems to be a lot like BOSE - average products that are very much overpriced. Tom |
I've been told that if the lightning wants in, it'll blow the protector but
jump through it anyway. If I had a few more $$, I'd get the APC to do the job, as mine is a LCD running the fan to cool down after shutdown, and that would run it long enough to do the job if the power went out. "david" wrote in message m... hi I visited Best Buy and the three TV on my list are Mitsu 55313 Toshiba 57H83 Samsung 5529WH Any suggestions. Should i buy the extended warranty. I plan on using my visa card and visa doubles the manufactures warranty. Guys what are your thoughts on the above TVs. The best buy sales also was pushing his monster surge protectors. Does that really improve picture quality. Let me know thanks |
I too would look at Hitachi, which I have. I'm no expert but I don't see how
a surge protector, which protects against instanteous power spikes, is going to affect picture quality. BillR. "Joe H" wrote in message ... I've been told that if the lightning wants in, it'll blow the protector but jump through it anyway. If I had a few more $$, I'd get the APC to do the job, as mine is a LCD running the fan to cool down after shutdown, and that would run it long enough to do the job if the power went out. "david" wrote in message m... hi I visited Best Buy and the three TV on my list are Mitsu 55313 Toshiba 57H83 Samsung 5529WH Any suggestions. Should i buy the extended warranty. I plan on using my visa card and visa doubles the manufactures warranty. Guys what are your thoughts on the above TVs. The best buy sales also was pushing his monster surge protectors. Does that really improve picture quality. Let me know thanks |
"david" wrote in message m... hi I visited Best Buy and the three TV on my list are Mitsu 55313 Toshiba 57H83 Samsung 5529WH Any suggestions. Should i buy the extended warranty. I plan on using my visa card and visa doubles the manufactures warranty. Guys what are your thoughts on the above TVs. The best buy sales also was pushing his monster surge protectors. Does that really improve picture quality. Let me know thanks Can't comment on the Mitsu or Sammy, but I have had an excellent experience with the exact Toshiba model you specify. It has amazing picture quality, multiple inputs, easy to use remote/menus/options, is easily adjusted in terms of the convergence (with a small trick in the service menu...but its quite easy, trust me), and is an all around great value. I use Comcast HD cable, and I have had excellent luck with HD quality programming, as well as DVD's. I have also found that a normal DVD player gives basically the same quality picture as a progressive scan player because of the quality of the line-doubler (or whatever you want to call it) present in the TV itself. I am really happy with this TV. I got the extended warranty, but the reasons I got it may be different for your situation. I am young (23), and have a lot of , shall we say, inebriated guests on the weekends. No kids, but that could be an issue with you, dunno. The idea behind the warranty, in addition to giving me peace of mind, is that I am fairly likely to spill on, bump into, or fall into the TV over the course of the 4 years. Never mind someone else, who is probably even likelier. If I need it, its there, if I don't need it, I still feel it was money well spent. If I had kids, and I will eventually, it would be even less of a quesiton. Never know what the little ones are capable of. I would advise against buying the Monster cables, surge protectors, line conditioners etc etc. Your average cables and stuff will work just fine. If you really care about quality, I would suggest a different route than Monster. It seems that while they are of decent quality, they are really at the high end of the low-quality market. For that price point, you can do more with your money. I just bought some optical cables and a dig-coax from http://www.partsexpress.com . Haven't received them yet so I can't advise on quality, but seems like they are on the ball with their shipping (UPS tracking numbers in hand at the end of the day) and I found some great deals. ebay is always an option as well, as I have had good luck there in the past. Good luck, Matt |
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Dave Balcom wrote:
I bought a Panasonic 40 inch rear projection LCD (PT40-LC12) a year and a day ago (meaning the factory warranty JUST expired on the 16th). About an hour ago the picture went completely dark meaning something blew (probably the bulb) as there is no picture at all but the power switch is flashing. I called Best Buy's service number and have a tech coming out in 2 days. I went ahead and bought the 4 yr extended warranty knowing it was a newer technology and thinking the bulb would be the weakest link (bulb cost alone is $314 online). Was it a good decision? The extended warranty cost $300 so if the bulb did go then I am already ahead... Let us know how you make out with that. Extended Warranties generally consider the bulb to be a "consumable", which means that you still have to pay for it when it fails. But they may not always enforce that. |
On Tue, 18 May 2004 07:24:22 -0400, Jim Gilliland
wrote: }Let us know how you make out with that. Extended Warranties generally }consider the bulb to be a "consumable", which means that you still have }to pay for it when it fails. But they may not always enforce that. Will do. I am not so sure it is even the bulb as there is no failure light now or warnings on screen that it was due to be replaced. If they try that I will be ****ed as that was the main reason I went ahead and bought that particular $2400 TV (the salesman said "even if it smells funny, call us and we will fix it under warranty.") He even mentioned the cost of a bulb and how the extended warranty is cheap insurance should it fail. Later, Dave |
Dave Balcom wrote:
On Tue, 18 May 2004 07:24:22 -0400, Jim Gilliland wrote: }Let us know how you make out with that. Extended Warranties generally }consider the bulb to be a "consumable", which means that you still have }to pay for it when it fails. But they may not always enforce that. Will do. I am not so sure it is even the bulb as there is no failure light now or warnings on screen that it was due to be replaced. If they try that I will be ****ed as that was the main reason I went ahead and bought that particular $2400 TV (the salesman said "even if it smells funny, call us and we will fix it under warranty.") He even mentioned the cost of a bulb and how the extended warranty is cheap insurance should it fail. Yeah, they all seem to do that. Circuit City, Best Buy, Sears, everybody - the sales guy will tell you that the bulb is covered, but it's what's in the contract that matters. I got a call from Circuit City suggesting that I buy their extended warranty for my HD set. She told me that she was absolutly sure that the bulb was covered - she'd even checked with her manager. I told her that I would buy it if they would send me that in writing. I never heard another word from them. Here's the wording from their contract: "Consumables, such as batteries, toner, ink, etc., are not covered by the manufacturer or the Cityadvantage Protection Plan because they have a defined and limited life." Projector bulbs aren't mentioned, but it's easy to see how the "defined and limited life" could be considered to include them. Especially if the vendor figures out that he's going to lose money on the deal. But let us know how it turns out in your case. Maybe it'll go smoothly. Good luck with it. |
On Tue, 18 May 2004 11:43:22 -0400, Jim Gilliland
wrote: }Projector bulbs aren't mentioned, but it's easy to see how the "defined }and limited life" could be considered to include them. Especially if }the vendor figures out that he's going to lose money on the deal. } }But let us know how it turns out in your case. Maybe it'll go smoothly. } Good luck with it. Not with my luck... :( How many HDTV's die a day after the factory warranty expires? Then again, the set wasn't delivered until May 20th which is still within the 12 month window... I just read the BB warranty cover to cover. The exact wording is "Also not covered are replacement costs for consumable parts (knobs, remotes, batteries, bags, belts, etc.)" Then again in another part of the warranty is says "this plan does provide coverage on a carry-in basis for remote control repairs not due to loss or abuse." It also says batteries ARE covered for camcorders. Huh? So it appears there are exceptions even to that clause. In any case, power surges are completely covered and obviously caused the bulb to blow (if that is the problem)... ;););) Anyway, I will know more tomorrow once the tech checks it out... Later, Dave |
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