Scorching deals at Sams clubs

[solleyman]

Originally posted by: ericlp

Altho on the bright side, gas was a 1.75 a gallon!!! Sheesh.... I never would have thought that would ever be that low, I thought about taking a picture. 🙂

OT: Scored gas for $1.37 this weekend (Friday) at the Love's on I-65 between Huntsville, AL and Nashville, TN. It was $1.43 on the way back through on Sunday.

 

[Sesopedalian]

Originally posted by: purduecmpe
Good luck with those... Been sitting on the shelf for a year playing the same video over and over... You are getting the discount because of the reduced life of the unit... Would rather pick one up on Craigslist at least it hasn't been used from 8AM-10PM daily...

That is never, ever true. They get new models all the time. Mine had a Sony Bravia 52" that was on display for only 2 weeks and was going for $1500 something.

 

[Imyourzero]

Originally posted by: solleyman

Originally posted by: ericlp

Altho on the bright side, gas was a 1.75 a gallon!!! Sheesh.... I never would have thought that would ever be that low, I thought about taking a picture. 🙂

OT: Scored gas for $1.37 this weekend (Friday) at the Love's on I-65 between Huntsville, AL and Nashville, TN. It was $1.43 on the way back through on Sunday.

$1.37? Was that after the Live cashback? 😀

 

[slashbinslashbash]

Just checked at the North Richland Hills, TX store and there weren't any great deals on their open-box TV's. There were typical deals but nothing great, nothing under $700 for the 40"+ models.

 

[Devil2U]

If you have a smaller to mid-size HDTV that you plan on sitting many feet away from, than 720P will work ok.

However, if you either plan on sitting closer to the display or it is large (or both), then you will notice the benefits of 1080P. True, the only devices that can output 1920X1080 Progessive are Bluray players and computers. So if you plan on using either, then get a 1080P display.

 

[slashbinslashbash]

The definitive screen size/resolution/distance chart, based on the tested limits of human eye resolution:

http://www.soundandvisionmag.c...ng-out-resolution.html

To pull a few data points:

If you are sitting farther than 10' from a 50" TV, 720p is enough.
If you are sitting farther than 8' from a 40" TV, 720p is enough.
If you are sitting farther than 6.5' from a 32" TV, 720p is enough.
If you are sitting closer than 6.5' from a 50" TV, 1080p is NOT enough.
If you are sitting closer than 5' from a 40" TV, 1080p is NOT enough.
If you are sitting closer than 4' from a 32" TV, 1080p is NOT enough.

I think that in most situations, 720p is plenty good enough, for reasonable screen sizes. We have a 32" and sit about 8' away. I think that a 40" would be uncomfortably large, but a 720p 40" screen would still provide more resolution than the human eye can resolve at that distance. When you start looking at projectors (80"+ screen size), and fitting them into a normal sized room, I think then you will have to take 1080p seriously. But, of course this is all dependent on your individual circumstances. The charts just tell you what's reasonable and what isn't. You can over-spec if you want to (hey, this is AT right? Home of the 200+ FPS gaming rig...) and of course there might be times when you sit closer to the TV, for whatever reason (laying on the floor, etc.).

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

Fake
-AE

 

[zephyrprime]

I was at sam's this weekend and the clearance deals sucked.

 

[edplayer]

Originally posted by: slashbinslashbash
I think that in most situations, 720p is plenty good enough, for reasonable screen sizes.

If that were true, why even bother linking to that chart?

Originally posted by: slashbinslashbash
We have a 32" and sit about 8' away. I think that a 40" would be uncomfortably large, but a 720p 40" screen would still provide more resolution than the human eye can resolve at that distance.

If I am reading this correctly,

according to your link, the optimal distance for viewing 1080p material on a 1080p 32" TV is slightly over 4 feet away. You think a 40" would be uncomfortably large yet that chart recommends slightly over 5 feet for 1080p material on a 40".

You call it the definitive screen size/resolution/distance chart yet it seems that you did not even bother to read it.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/users/j...ylebowski/IMAG0117.jpg

Here is a pic of my receipt. Like I said they had a smaller Vizio unit for $250ish and some other TV's on the rack. there was a sony 52" for $700 or so.

I spent the $40 on a 3 year warrantry because if/when the TV craps out I get my $269.61 back since it will be cheaper for them than fixing or replacing it.
So in essence, I'll be renting the TV for $40.

 

[krylon]

What a worthless thread

 

[RagingBITCH]

Jeff - any left? I'm down the street from the Plano one. (Which Plano one btw...near Central Market or Spring Creek?)

 

[lifeobry]

OP should edit thread to say YMMV as this is a prime example of it.

 

[Odeen]

Okay, I've got to chime in on the 720P vs 1080P issue.

1) Most scripted TV shows (dramas, sitcoms) are shot on film, at 24 FPS progressive, or on a digital camera at 24 FPS to mirror the "film look". The 1080p24 recording is broadcast at 1080i60. No detail is actually "lost" in the translation, but going from 1080i60 to 1080p60 results in visible "judder" in scenes where the camera moves slowly. 1080p24 -capable TVs with good video processors can recover 24 FPS information from the 1080i broadcast. All 1080P TVs do some form of deinterlacing to show a 60 FPS progressive picture.

2) Most 720P HDTVs are not really 720P. They are 1366x768, and have to scale a 720-line picture to 768 lines. Scaling something by 7% is more difficult than scaling something by 50%. Exceptions: Rear projection 720P sets are usually truly 720P, and some 42" plasmas are 1024x768 (non-square pixels) or 1024x1024 (non-square pixels and alternately-lit scanlines, essentially doing "interlaced" on a plasma)

3) All TV video processors suck. The WORST TV video processors don't give you anything better than 540P video from 1080i sources. These worst processors are likely to be in cheaper 720P TVs. Therefore, a cheap 720P TV may be presenting only a 540P-quality deinterlaced picture scaled up to 720P, and then scaled again to 768P. Eww.

4) On the other hand, a 1080P-capable set only has to do one deinterlacing step and no scaling. Less opportunity for things to go wrong.

To sum up - in a perfect world, a good 720P TV will show a good picture. In an imperfect world, however, with a ton of 1080i programming, a average 1080P TV will do a better job with it than an average 720P TV. Even with 720P programming, a 1080P-capable set has to do relatively simple 50% scaling, whereas a 720P-nee-768P set has to fiddle with the pixels to get everything 7% bigger.

Sincerely,
Odeen, sitting 11 feet in front of a 56" 1080P DLP. 🙂

 

[getumfast]

Sams specials are where you find them, I live in a economically depressed area and the sams specials are like a hatian landfill. A prosperous area like Clearwater Fla is ripe with returns and markdowns.