Is this a good time to buy DLP/LCD?

In article [email protected], "Steve"
wrote:

Just got back from checking out DLP and LCD TVs as a local higher-end
electronics store--Tweeter. They have 24-months no-interest financing--as
well as good prices (as low as CC and BB)--through the end of the weekend.

I'm not going to go into the financing thing; it's already been beaten
way past the dead horse level.

I'd have to say "no", if only because it's now a buying season, which
means it's a seller's market. First for Christmas shopping, then for
Super Bowl shopping. Prices should go down after January just for that
reason alone, though it might take a couple more months.

My other reason is if you want a good built-in OTA tuner, now probably
still isn't the time to buy. You should especially avoid any set with
no ATSC tuner at all, as analog broadcasts WILL end someday, probably
within five years. The same goes for needing an encrypted digital input
like HDMI. All this isn't quite as important if the set has a VGA input
and can still be used as a computer display. (If only Aquos sets had a
VGA input...)

In article [email protected], "Steve"
wrote:

What about the EDTVs they are promoting at the stores? What are they?

480p 4:3, I think.

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:00:32 -0600, Bruce Tomlin
wrote:

In article [email protected], "Steve"
wrote:

What about the EDTVs they are promoting at the stores? What are they?

480p 4:3, I think.
Just read an article in the paper that said most people are willing
to settle for an SD set as long as they can get a thin screen. Size
seems to be more important than quality.
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In article [email protected], "Steve"
wrote:

Just got back from checking out DLP and LCD TVs as a local higher-end
electronics store--Tweeter. They have 24-months no-interest financing--as
well as good prices (as low as CC and BB)--through the end of the weekend.

I'd have to say "no", if only because it's now a buying season, which
means it's a seller's market.

This is debateable. Inventories are high (and economies of scale
realized by volume purchasing are invoked), selection is good,
competition is intense.

Post season, inventories will be low, selection crap, and competition
less intense.

You might be able to take advantage of a particular over stocked model
that someone is trying to blow out... but this isn't pants. Do you
really want the model that didn't sell well over Christmas? Maybe. Maybe
not. Probably not.


My other reason is if you want a good built-in OTA tuner, now probably
still isn't the time to buy.

Big IF. I haven't tuned into an OTA broadcast in nearly 15 years. As a
priority its pretty much zilch here.

In fact, if I *could* buy a TV with no internal tuner and no speakers
and save a couple hundred I would. I never use either.