Yes.
Sweeeeeeeet.
I went to a local electronics boutique store to strike up a relationship with the store owner. They had 7 rooms set up with various levels of home theater nirvana. They had a special going on that you would get a free 50” Pioneer plasma if you bought a Pioneer Elite (72”?) series tv. Those were 10 grand-ish.
I keep waffling on this flat panel tv issue. On one hand, there’s the hoards of folks buying these tier 3 sets (Visio, Vito, to name a few) who seem perfectly happy. Then the snob in me emerges and reminds me that I am able to detect the performance differences in these sub-$1,000 sets and the premier models (Sharp Aquos / Sony Bravia (XBR2 and later).
It’s just that even if I can tell the difference, can I really tell $2-3,000 difference?
Everything, in reality is a concession. For you, even, you could have gone after the crazy $10K units I supposed but went with the $6K one. What was the deciding factor there?