As the scheduled day for all TV signals to change to digital, we are all feeling the itch to buy a new and shiny TV. That would include me. Some like going for the cheapest option, that's all we need right? others like buying the most expensive TV in the market, quality over quantity. As I walked through Walmart, I found out that neither of the two is the best one.
First, let us analyze the cheap TV. The Vizio brand is considered to be the number one selling brand of LCDs in America. That may true, but what they don't tell you is that their product is very inferior to that of its competitors. About a couple of weeks ago, I was at the brink of buying a 26" Vizio; I truly was seconds away from doing so. However, as I looked to other TVs, I noticed something very interesting about TV, the TV displayed no gray colors! Whenever an object casted a shadow, the TV would just display a big blob of black. I tried adjusting the contrast and the brightness to see if I could fix that. To my surprise, the contrast was all the way up already. I started playing with it anyway, up and down, the image didn't improve that much and sometimes it got worst. I played with the brightness, but raising that only made the rest of the colors looked like they were washed away. Long story made short, Vizio was clearly worst than its competitors.
Next to Vizio, was a Samsung TV which looked light years better than Vizio and I'm not only talking about the image in the TV, but also the overall shape of the TV was just sexy. Samsung TVs are known to be one of the best in the market, and the TV I was looking didn't prove otherwise. The catch: it was almost double the price of the Vizio! Unless you have some extra cash sitting around, or you can wait a couple (or more) months to get double the money, don't buy Samsung. What is there to do?
Among the things you can do, as I said before, you can wait some time and save up some money. You can also with about $100 more, you can buy a Phillips or a Sharp TV. They are not as awesome looking or awesome displaying as Samsung, but they are pretty close. In fact, the difference between them, are nigh impossible to see. Hence, like in everything else, don't buy the cheapest one because you are going to end up paying more for it, and don't buy the best, why waste money?
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I went through the headache of searching for a new TV and believe me I was so fed up with all the tiny details of each one. I wanted to go cheap but then I thought would I actually want to sit and watch that television a year from now. So I went with a Pioneer it just stood out picture wise above all the other models that were displayed along side of it.
I love it, too bad I don't have the time to watch it, it's just collecting dust.
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