Wish I had $6k to buy a tv

[pitbull12888]

what do you have time to watch while eating breakfast?
it's food, it doesn't require foreplay

just because it doesnt require foreplay doesnt mean u shouldnt blow a load watchin barney anyway //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

JK

 

[LeofromtheH 10+ year member]

i've never had the urge to watch tv while eating breakfast. i usually just read the back of the cereal box or nutrition facts or the paper.

it's like those washing machines that have tv's in them, why the fuuck would you wana watch tv while putting clothes in the watcher?

reminds me of that one comercial where the dude has tv's everywhere he goes.

 

[pitbull12888]

i have a tv in every cabinet //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

I spent 32000 bucks on my tv, but with the warranty I got I am close to 4500, lol!

This is just one of the many tvs I have, but my favorite. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=KDL40XBR3&Dept=tvvideo&CategoryName=hid_tv_newbravia

 

[Rmsanger 10+ year member]

I spent 32000 bucks on my tv, but with the warranty I got I am close to 4500, lol!
This is just one of the many tvs I have, but my favorite. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=KDL40XBR3&Dept=tvvideo&CategoryName=hid_tv_newbravia

Yeah that Sony is a sweet TV...

My family just recently bought two TVs before the holidays:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7803148&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat95100050005&id=1142293092636

Does not play 1080P //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif but excellent display of Non-HD material and just as good as 90% of the other displays for HD programs. Blue-Ray is sick on this tv MI3 FTW!

Got it on sale for around ~ $2600

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7854789&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat95100050005&id=1142299476010

Slightly better quality display but 5 inches smaller than the Hitatchi. Perfect for HD material.

Price ~ 2700 - 2800...

If you pay 6-7k for a TV you're nuts since you can buy both of these TVs and still pay your cable bill with the money leftover.

If you don't have the money then no way should a 7k tv be your priority. Fund an IRA or 401K for the year first.

 

[bigbangtheory 5,000+ posts]

Yeah that Sony is a sweet TV...
My family just recently bought two TVs before the holidays:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7803148&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat95100050005&id=1142293092636

Does not play 1080P //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif but excellent display of Non-HD material and just as good as 90% of the other displays for HD programs. Blue-Ray is sick on this tv MI3 FTW!

Got it on sale for around ~ $2600

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7854789&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat95100050005&id=1142299476010

Slightly better quality display but 5 inches smaller than the Hitatchi. Perfect for HD material.

Price ~ 2700 - 2800...

If you pay 6-7k for a TV you're nuts since you can buy both of these TVs and still pay your cable bill with the money leftover.

If you don't have the money then no way should a 7k tv be your priority. Fund an IRA or 401K for the year first.

Ahaha, I put 32000 up there.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif I ment 3200, lol!

Anyway, I love my Sony man, nothing I would trade it for but maybe a Pioneer Elite 52" being how I moved and seem like the 40 I have is now to small. Still is amazing! The HD channels on it are purely orgasmic and when I am watching a football game, I swear I am right in the middle of it.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/veryhappy.gif.fec4fed33b4a1279cf10bdd45a039dae.gif

Those two tvs you have a very nice as well. I only have 1080 because of the xbox360, which I dont seem to play as much do to me being busy as of late outside of work. But I love knowing I have it when I need it.

I have many tvs from 1 13" Toshiba LCD Flant panel, 1 27" Toshiba CRT in our bedroom, 1 32"CRT Toshiba in the garage for watching movies and **** when I am in the garage to the 40" Sony in the Living room. I also have all Sony and JBL home theater system that gets the job done. I love watching movies!!!

 

[Colin+M 10+ year member]

1. Viewing angles on Rear projection tv's are not as good as plasma/lcd. Not even close. Although the rear projection tvs do have excellent contrast ratios and black levels. A little ahead of the flat panels.

2. Its Blu-ray.

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

The people that are the most willing to spend a ridiculous amount of money on a television are the people that are so completely afriad of life that they insist on catching every episode of every worthless broadcast that they shove onto the airwaves.

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif 99% of television is trash. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

That said, if I made 150k+ a year I would have a massive HD or two in my house, but then and only then does it seem worth it. There is like a big push lately to bring super expensive and obviously unnecesary technologies to the middle class who can barely afford them.

People need to stop and ask, "Why do I want this?" every once in a while, and that includes myself and probably all of you given our high-cost audio hobby.

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

Spending 1000's on a single item, a TV in this case, is ridiculous. But we all know what we want and costs a lotta dough. Instead, take the 6 grand and buy a friggin house.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

People with a LITTLE money are ALWAYS the target consumers.

People with a LOT of money are smart enough to save, or otherwise smart enough to accumulate so much wealth.

It's no secret that it's white trash and ******s with a little extra cash from their bonus or tax return that buy all the stupid **** that they can't afford. Where do they advertise all the outrageously expensive tv's? Football, and basketball, right after the beer, GM super-duper financing, and pizza commercials. It's nothing new.

 

[Boomin_tahoe 5,000+ posts]

The people that are the most willing to spend a ridiculous amount of money on a television are the people that are so completely afriad of life that they insist on catching every episode of every worthless broadcast that they shove onto the airwaves.
//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif 99% of television is trash. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

That said, if I made 150k+ a year I would have a massive HD or two in my house, but then and only then does it seem worth it. There is like a big push lately to bring super expensive and obviously unnecesary technologies to the middle class who can barely afford them.

People need to stop and ask, "Why do I want this?" every once in a while, and that includes myself and probably all of you given our high-cost audio hobby.

That's one's opinion. There's a lot more educational programming on nowadays than there was say 10 yrs ago. I'd have to disagree on that one. Guess what? TV is the most thing families do wheather during dinnertime or saturday morning cartoons. Advertising is also done on TV. So buying a big screen TV means that people are afraid in life?? WTF are you talkin about??? It's a TV!!! Made for entertainment....just as car audio is.....watching movies. I think you escaped the mental hospital again didn't you?

 

[TribeX85 10+ year member]

I want to get this one or the biggest Samsung they make...
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?pfp=BROWSE&N=200658+502451&Ne=502443&product_code=339875&Pn=MicroDisplay_WD_73732_73_inch_1080p_DLP_HDTV

yeah thats a good one, I want the Samsung also.

 

[thylantyr 10+ year member]

Make a 100" Screen for under $100

http://www.projectorcentral.com/diy_screen.htm

Spend $1k, maybe $2k on a 1280x720 DLP projector.

Or wait until HDTV projector comes down to $2500 in a year or two.

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

That's one's opinion. There's a lot more educational programming on nowadays than there was say 10 yrs ago. I'd have to disagree on that one. Guess what? TV is the most thing families do wheather during dinnertime or saturday morning cartoons. Advertising is also done on TV. So buying a big screen TV means that people are afraid in life?? WTF are you talkin about??? It's a TV!!! Made for entertainment....just as car audio is.....watching movies. I think you escaped the mental hospital again didn't you?

Exactly. It's made for entertainment. Entertainment is escapism. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif , and I'm just as much a victim of it as anyone. Victim probably isn't the right word, since it is by my own choice/weakness that I choose to indulge.

Most of a persons disposable income is put towards entertainment products and devices. We work to earn money to distract ourselves from the passionless life we created by spending it all working. It's a cycle of nonsense that ends up ******* the passion out of most people and it leaks out through absurd quasi personally productive crap like a car audio hobby. We take our distraction and make it our own to feel more in control of it and empowered by it.

So yes, it's "just a tv", but by making it normal to spend a large portion of your disposable income on a dominant piece of distractionary entertainment, its deepening the rut of the middle class. Spend your life working so you can buy crap you don't need that simultaneously ends up ******* up your free time with BS that does little to nothing to further your satisfaction with life.

But yeah, don't consider my point of view, feel free to write me off as a kook. But I think you see what I'm talking about whether you like it or not.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

If you can only afford to save $50 per paycheck, buying a $6k tv isn't the best use of your money. IMO you should be looking for something in the $1-2k range

I dont think you should spend more than 6 times your disposable income on a tv that will depreciate dramatically once it leaves the store.

A 40" TV that cost $4000 today and a 40" tv that cost $1500 today will be worth about the same in 10 years, which is about $0

At 6 times it would take 6 months to pay it off.

$250 a month= $1500 tv

$500 a month= $3000 tv

$1000 a month= $6000 tv

etc