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best Buy deal: 55" RCA LED HDTV for $499
Posted on 8/25/14 at 2:59 pm
Posted on 8/25/14 at 2:59 pm
Just picked one up for the patio
This post was edited on 8/25/14 at 3:00 pm
Posted on 8/25/14 at 3:18 pm to Tiger Ryno
Pretty sure they are selling these at Walmart for like $400
Posted on 8/25/14 at 3:24 pm to RaginCajunsULL
quote:
Pretty sure they are selling these at Walmart for like $400
I literally lol'd reading that. I'd feel like a dumbasss if I were OP.
Sorry, Ryno.
Posted on 8/25/14 at 3:31 pm to RaginCajunsULL
Posted on 8/25/14 at 3:38 pm to Phil A Sheo
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Nope Same price
then i apologize to my boy ryno
Posted on 8/25/14 at 3:46 pm to Tiger Ryno
My father in law picked one up a few weeks ago. It's a nice TV.
Posted on 8/25/14 at 3:56 pm to Tiger Ryno
Just bought one last week from sams, $478
Posted on 8/25/14 at 4:17 pm to hawgndodge
The same thing is available for $379 at Wal Mart Refurbished. Same warranty.
Posted on 8/25/14 at 7:01 pm to HubbaBubba
How does sports look on these 120hz tv's?
Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:16 pm to Meauxjeaux
Looks fine. It's not top quality but this is going on the patio outside.
Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:21 pm to Tiger Ryno
That's exactly where mine is right now
Posted on 8/25/14 at 8:43 pm to Meauxjeaux
Every TV can benefit from turning off all the optional signal manipulations, like Digital NR. Also, if the set has it available, grey scale calibration and color calibration should be done. Don't try this yourself unless you have a really good eye for color. Gray calibration is hugely important.
Where most people fail is using sharpness and contrast too much. All of that is only artificial information. It can add noise in the image.
Also, the best thing to visually calibrate to is a nice up-close face, like this:
Unfortunately, all LED's, regardless of whether it is backlit or side lit, suffer from inability to resolve black very well. On a plasma (rest in peace) and CRTs (also, rest in peace), you could create almost absolute blacks, with very fine variations leading up to dark grey. It created images with superb detail, great color saturation without looking cartoonish and a very deep field of depth.
LED will never achieve that level of realism. Although it can achieve great crispness of detail, it can't create the extraordinary detail in fine delineations of color and black/greys that those other technologies could.
The trade off? Inexpensive options. They run cooler. They use a lot less energy.
However..... technology is rapidly transforming the landscape. Faster processing, newer LED manufactuing and soon, OLED displays. The price of these sets today, are really incredibly cheap for what you get.
Where most people fail is using sharpness and contrast too much. All of that is only artificial information. It can add noise in the image.
Also, the best thing to visually calibrate to is a nice up-close face, like this:
Unfortunately, all LED's, regardless of whether it is backlit or side lit, suffer from inability to resolve black very well. On a plasma (rest in peace) and CRTs (also, rest in peace), you could create almost absolute blacks, with very fine variations leading up to dark grey. It created images with superb detail, great color saturation without looking cartoonish and a very deep field of depth.
LED will never achieve that level of realism. Although it can achieve great crispness of detail, it can't create the extraordinary detail in fine delineations of color and black/greys that those other technologies could.
The trade off? Inexpensive options. They run cooler. They use a lot less energy.
However..... technology is rapidly transforming the landscape. Faster processing, newer LED manufactuing and soon, OLED displays. The price of these sets today, are really incredibly cheap for what you get.
Posted on 8/25/14 at 10:47 pm to HubbaBubba
The day my Panasonic plasma quits working is going to be a very sad day indeed
Posted on 8/26/14 at 11:02 am to GEAUXT
quote:Same here
The day my Panasonic plasma quits working is going to be a very sad day indeed
I have two CRT projectors, though. The images are beautiful, but I'm not using either.
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