HDTV Vizio vs Westinghouse
10-12-2007, 12:26 PM
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Well I ended up going cheap and buying the Westinghouse... lets see how long it lasts. It has a 1 yr warranty on it so i guess they will be replacing it if the TV junks out on me. But it cost me $871 bucks for a 42" so I'll try it out. It looks great right now but i need to do the optimizing so I can get teh full quality. But I'm satifisied as of right now. 
10-14-2007, 03:15 AM
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I dont have time to read through the thread, but I will post my opinion. Get a Panasonic Plasma and call it a day. You get alot for your money.
My buddy purchased a 42" Vizio 3 weeks ago. I brought over my XBOX 360, and the picture looked horrible compared to my 42" Panasonic Plasma. I put in a game that I very familiar with, and I couldn't stand playing it on that TV because the colors looked like crap. It looked dark and unclear. Even after messing with the Picture, brightness, color, tint...it still looked dark and like crap. I kindly informed him of this. A few weeks go on, and his Vizio starts to freeze. It would be either the sound cutting off, or the picture freezing. Then if you clicked on Menu on the remote, the Menu screen would come up, and it wouldn't dissapear no matter what you did. You would have to watch TV with the screen covered with a big Menu. All of these little problems started to get progressivly worse, and became a huge nuisance. The only fix for all of these problems was to unplug the TV, then restart it. He took it back to Walmart, and ended up buying a Sanyo.
Some people never learn, but I am prety sure that anything could be better than that Vizio.
Oh yea, the sales pitch by the salesman when he purchased the Vizio, was that "its a good TV, its made by Toshiba, but its repackaged as a Vizio"
My buddy purchased a 42" Vizio 3 weeks ago. I brought over my XBOX 360, and the picture looked horrible compared to my 42" Panasonic Plasma. I put in a game that I very familiar with, and I couldn't stand playing it on that TV because the colors looked like crap. It looked dark and unclear. Even after messing with the Picture, brightness, color, tint...it still looked dark and like crap. I kindly informed him of this. A few weeks go on, and his Vizio starts to freeze. It would be either the sound cutting off, or the picture freezing. Then if you clicked on Menu on the remote, the Menu screen would come up, and it wouldn't dissapear no matter what you did. You would have to watch TV with the screen covered with a big Menu. All of these little problems started to get progressivly worse, and became a huge nuisance. The only fix for all of these problems was to unplug the TV, then restart it. He took it back to Walmart, and ended up buying a Sanyo.
Some people never learn, but I am prety sure that anything could be better than that Vizio.
Oh yea, the sales pitch by the salesman when he purchased the Vizio, was that "its a good TV, its made by Toshiba, but its repackaged as a Vizio"
10-14-2007, 01:32 PM
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Ha. j/k buddy.
10-30-2007, 03:44 PM
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Plasma has better picture quality hands down. I researched, even went lcd only to return it for a panasonic plasma. LCDs have terrible darks, and any fast motion scenes have terrible ghosting issues. Burn-in is an issue of the past with plasmas, they have added logic that will pixel-shift that eliminates it. If you can, buy from costco and enjoy their no-hassle return policy and find the right tv for you. It is a personal preference thing, lcd's use less power, are anti-glare, and have no image-retention issues at all (burn in). Plasmas have much better picture quality, and the newer models have better anti-glare technology.
Anyways, go to avsforum.com for this topic. You will be on there reading for hours in lieu of your research, a great source...
Anyways, go to avsforum.com for this topic. You will be on there reading for hours in lieu of your research, a great source...
10-30-2007, 06:15 PM
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samsungs newest line has an awesome contrast ratio that rivals that of plasmas and has a refresh rate of 120hz and sony is coming out with the same technology too. a 25000:1 contrast ratio from an LCD is pretty amazing
10-30-2007, 08:05 PM
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Plasma has better picture quality hands down. I researched, even went lcd only to return it for a panasonic plasma. LCDs have terrible darks, and any fast motion scenes have terrible ghosting issues. Burn-in is an issue of the past with plasmas, they have added logic that will pixel-shift that eliminates it. If you can, buy from costco and enjoy their no-hassle return policy and find the right tv for you. It is a personal preference thing, lcd's use less power, are anti-glare, and have no image-retention issues at all (burn in). Plasmas have much better picture quality, and the newer models have better anti-glare technology.
Anyways, go to avsforum.com for this topic. You will be on there reading for hours in lieu of your research, a great source...
Anyways, go to avsforum.com for this topic. You will be on there reading for hours in lieu of your research, a great source...
as for the avs thing, SSU also has a good area for discussing home theater.
11-08-2007, 08:57 PM
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i got a samsung 42 plasma from best buy, burn in was an issue at first with station logos and such but when i changed the pixel shift frequency to every 1 min instead of every 2mins and changed the shift from 2 pixels to 4 pixels, it hasn't done it since. btw best buy and circuit city do 18 and 24 months no interest, its great, i'm on my third big screen and used it everytime. make sure the new tv has the hd tuner built in, some 1000 dollar tvs dont and they are called HD monitors, a way of getting around regulations.
11-08-2007, 09:03 PM
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make sure the new tv has the hd tuner built in, some 1000 dollar tvs dont and they are called HD monitors, a way of getting around regulations.
11-08-2007, 09:32 PM
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they told me as a "monitor" they dont have to put a tuner in it at all. so if you have cable you are screwed, it cant change any channels. it just has input source changes thats it. for some people thats ok but just makes me wonder what else they skimped on.