720p is all I can afford. Tell a lie, I can get a 1080p TV from some manufacturer I've never heard of with too many vowels in their name, and I don't want to do that. Or I could get a Pioneer TV that doesn't look anywhere near as good as the Samsung (aesthetically).
And there's no way I'm importing. If anything breaks then I can't just take it to the store to get it fixed. I'll have a £400 paperweight.
Good ones are expensive. And the Samsung I'm going for has by far the best picture out of any I've seen.
I've just had a quick look on a few sites, and the cheapest 42" HDTV I can find is £800 = $1585. It's a Goodmans, looks like the back-end of a cow, and I haven't a clue whether it's LCD or Plasma. The next best is a Samsung at £850 = $1685.
If I go for the brand that was named by Countdown then it'll cost me under £500... without an instant guarantee that it's a product by a company that make great TVs.
That's just ridiculous... Keep in mind, though, that if you go to a store and compare a dozen tv's side by side, that those comparisons won't really hold up when you get home. The differences that you notice when a tv is sitting next to several others won't still be apparent when you get it home in a room by itself. So paying an extra couple hundred bucks for a little better picture quality might be a waste (imho, at least).
I'm cheap, though. If you've got the money to blow, and you know what you want, go for it.
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If you've got the money to blow, and you know what you want, go for it.
Too damn right. I didn't work as a mindless drone cum slave for 40 hours a week for 11 weeks just to nitpick over price.
And I'll be doing much of the same again this Summer, excpet for 6 weeks at a higher wage, meaning I'll have another £1000 to blow on things come the Christmas sales.
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