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I waited until after Christmas. I’m going to grab a deal in the next few days. Anyone seen any great deals?
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Picked up another 50” Pioneer Kuro for the family room. The price for these are still up there ($2,900), but I really wanted another one before they went away.
I didn’t get an HDTV, but my wife got me a Blu-Ray player. This Java-powered POS is going to make me miss my up-convert DVD player. My chief complaint is that it’s slow - it takes over a minute to boot up and about 30 seconds to load content. Shuts itself off if you leave the feature paused more than about 10 minutes. Annoying. HD-DVD sucked less. A lot less. I won’t complain about the lack of outputs, because that’s what you sacrifice for price.
Still and all, it does work. Band of Brothers is awesome in HD, and standard DVDs do play (so far - I haven’t tried any Disney DVDs, which tend to give some players fits).
Hi folks,
I am thinking of getting a Pioneer PDP-6020FD Kuro...this seems to be getting some praise from some circles.
I notice there is no DVI input on these, but there is vga and ethernet as well as USB.
They do not seem to be expandable or upgradable via a card or anything like that. Am I expecting too much, or is this only on very high end devices?
Also, I am thinking of buying from Amazon-it sounds like they have a “white glove treatment” option for delivery that is worth the money.
Anyone have any experience with these units? How about with Amazon delivery?
BfLtr
Got it from Amazon as they were close to the lowest and they do have an excellent return policy.
It took a while to get it tuned in and before that the picture was almost "too good".
Couldn't be more pleased. No motion blur and to my eye the best picture I've seen in the 40" range or if there is I've never seen it.
I want an HDTV real bad, but I’ll wait a couple more years.
I’m not spending $800 to $1000 for something with a 3 to 5 year life span.
My curent TV, a 36” CRT, works just fine and is 15 years old.
I’ve had 4 LCD computer monitors and they burn out after 3+ years. The LCD part works (you can even see the display when its dead if you shine a strong flashlight on the screen), but the vacuum-fluorescent bulb that lights them up lasts no longer than any fluorescent bulb.
Computer screens and LCD TVs are just glorified fluorescent light bulbs and they don’t last.
I plan on waiting until either my current CRT dies or the LCD people decide to backlight the darn things with LEDs so that they have a working life that is longer than the 5 days after the warranty.
I bought this home theater from Amazon. UPS delivery was good, as I was not there, so the guy acutally wheeled it into the house for my daughter.
And on the subject of cheap cables, I bought this digital audio cable to go with it. It works great, and I can buy 28 more before worrying about breaking even.