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

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)

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.

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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

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.

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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

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
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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

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

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
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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

"TopHaT" wrote in message
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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.