I’m looking to get a new TV, and unfortunately… I’m cheap. I just plain don’t want to spend a lot, (but damn are those 54" screens nice!)
Alright, my current tube is a 24" square analog. Yes, you heard me, old-style CRT. Unfortunately, it’s not really cutting it when I’m playing me some Dark Souls. So I think it’s time to upgrade.
I need something with a larger screen, better picture, and sharp enough definition to actually read whatever the hell Namco Bandai saw fit to put in those tiny text boxes. That said, it doesn’t have to be great. So can anyone catch me up with the TV world? What’s good and reliable and what’s not?
At least you are upgrading on your own…we were holdouts but got the dreaded ‘single line across the screen’ when we turned our old one on one day about a year ago.
I did a lot of looking and I settled on the Samsung un37c5000 LCD/LED (the 37 is the inches, they make others in that model that are bigger/smaller). Again, it has a
37" screen which was the very max we could go and still fit width-wise in our tv armoire. It has been a great tv and we combined it with a Panasonic Blu-Ray player to get Netflix, but Samsung has since put out tvs that already have Netflix loaded (almost immediately after we bought ours) but it is a great tv and a value for what you get!
At our local Walmart last week, we saw a 55" LED TV for $848 and a 60" Plasma TV for $898.
Huge and cheap.
And has been mentioned in many threads, no matter what size you pick, nobody has ever said, “Gee, I wish I had a bought a smaller TV.”
Plus, for the prices mentioned above, if you get 10 years out of it you are getting it for practically nothin’. We have had our tiny 42" plasma for about 8 - 9 years now with nary a problem and it was a non-name-brand (Ilo) Walmart special. Granted, back in those days it was pricy - about $1,700 - and now you can get something like ours for about $400 - 500 tops.
but it is a great tv and a value for what you get!