Friday, September 09, 2005

New LCD TVs

Well, the price on an high-def LCD TV finally fell far enough for me to pull the trigger (below $1000). Plus, I've been doing a lot of consulting work on the side, so my income is up quite a bit this year. I've been waiting about 2 years now for the prices to finally fall enough on these so that I wouldn't have to take out a loan to buy one (ugh).

The one I finally settled on is a Samsung LN-R238W, 23" LCD 16:9 1366x768. I had originally planned on sticking with a 17" or a 19" for my home office, but the price on the new Samsung LCDs is quite reasonable for the 23". Reasonable enough, that I'm not terribly worried if it doesn't exactly meet my expectations.

IOW, if I spent 2-3k on a TV, I'd be rather frantic if something happened to it. But below $1k, while I'd be unhappy if something happened, I wouldn't be as despondent because it's below my pain point. (I routinely spend that much per year just upgrading my bevy of PCs around the house.)

Tweeter (the store) didn't the exact model in stock that I wanted, but they were able to order it for me at a price that was about what I'd pay if I ordered online. So, I get a good price and I have someone local that I can go harrangue if there's a problem with the unit. (Unlikely, the Samsung's have a good street rep.) Now I get to wait 1-2 weeks for it to arrive.

In the meantime I'll have to figure out what cables I need and whether I want to hook a PC up to it directly (probably).

Other misc notes:

- 12ms response time on the display according to the information that I've found.

- Microsoft and Samsung are pairing up on the next XBox release using this model.

Labels: 2005

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