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Go HD now or wait (current best buy deal)

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Davegod75

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Well i'm looking at getting a TV this week. Best buy has 0% 24 month financing and a free leather chair+ottoman on all sony tv's 399 and up.

So i'm looking at the 32inch sets. the HD one and the non HD one?

What's the difference and is HD worth double the price?


Also i'm looking at a tv for these monsters. I stopped by the new college park Ikea and the one i like says max 132lb. But i sat on the thing and sorta bounced around and it was solid. I'm 193lbs 🙂

Should I worry about the weight or let is slide.
 
so the newest model is the best one to get right....KV-32HS510 instead of HS500


also do the 32" experience this buzzing sound i've heard a little about?



LOL...i'm looking at the best buy ad now and they have the 32" pictured and priced at 1299.99 but they say the model number is the KV36HS510.. Isn't that the 36" one and can I take advantage of this????
 
maybe you can pm ^^

HD would be a better investiment, since everyone's supposed to broadcast hd by 2005 or 6. and even if not for TV, yer DVD and games look much better. xbox in HD is supposed to kick major ass.
 
i have a friend who says don't get the hd because it's not widescreen and the HD most often makes regular tv look worse.

I watch about 90% tv and 10% dvd...so should i just get the normal 32 or spring for the 34" widescreen
 
Originally posted by: Davegod75
i have a friend who says don't get the hd because it's not widescreen and the HD most often makes regular tv look worse.

I watch about 90% tv and 10% dvd...so should i just get the normal 32 or spring for the 34" widescreen
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If you're going to get an HD-ready set, definitely go 16:9. Buying a 4:3 DTV is just plain ludicrous. It's like buying a Corvette and putting a 4-cylinder engine in it.

And, yeah, normal cable or satellite 4:3 programming will look not so hot on an HDTV but try taking a 640x480 image and display it full-screen on a 21" computer monitor running at 1600x1200 (or something) and tell me how it looks. But, if you can get an OTA tuner, 4:3 DTV programming from OTA will look rather decent. Better than anything cable or satellite can give you for non-HD programming. And, I see you're in Md. If you're near Baltimore/D.C., you can get OTA HD provided you don't live in, say, a basement apartment 😉 Most any antenna should work fine.
 
Originally posted by: Davegod75
i have a friend who says don't get the hd because it's not widescreen and the HD most often makes regular tv look worse.

I watch about 90% tv and 10% dvd...so should i just get the normal 32 or spring for the 34" widescreen
Click to expand...
Personally, I'd hold off on an HDTV, there is some programming out there, especially if you have DirectTV, but its still very light. The markup on HDTV's is well over the markup for standard TV's; offset the R&D on new tech with higher prices..lower them as it becomes more mainstream.

Sure DVDs look nicer in progressive scan, but you're not getting HD quality there anyways. 480p != 720p or 1080i

I'd get a nice 32 or 36" and hold off and get a better HDTV in a couple years..most likely the price of a standard 32 and a HDTV in a couple years combined will be the price of a single HDTV now.... plus the actual HD content will be there and *hopefully* HD-DVD will be out.
 
Drives me bonkers when people say that HD programming is light. Ok...here we go again:

CBS (full prime-time schedule minus 'reality' and news shows but includes sports like NCAA tournament, SEC College Football, US Open, Masters, etc.), ABC (pretty much the same as CBS but Monday Night Football will be HD as were the NHL finals!), NBC (a few shows incl. The Tonight Show), WB, FOX (only 480p on some shows), HBO-HD, Showtime HD, Discovery Channel HD, ESPN HD, HDNet and now HDNet movies, Cinemax HD coming soon, oh, and there's PBS, too. The CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, WB, PBS, UPN (forgot to mention them 😉 can be had OTA for free. No subscriptions required 🙂

HD over cable is growing pretty quickly now and is a very inexpensive way to get programming. No initial outlay for an HD satellite receiver is required and the monthly increase is usually pretty small. DirecTV is adding more HD (the HDNet expansion and ESPN and I believe Discovery, too) in just a couple of weeks and will surpass DISH, at that point imo, for most HD content.
 
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