I have this TV and love it! It is 1080P, 3 HMDI inputs, 2 each of S-Video, Composite and Component video inputs also!
The only thing I do not like about this is the internal speakers sound levels.
For the price, I don't think you can beat this TV. It is normally priced at $599, but on sale for $549. This item is new, has Best Buy's 30 Day money back guarantee, so you can buy it, and if you don't like it, return it for your money back.
Also, if you don't have a BB near you, you can order it online and get free shipping.
For all the thread haters, try to show me where you can find a new 42 inch 1080P TV for less than $550.
I have the 26" version and have been pleasantly surprised with the picture quality. I wouldn't hesitate to buy another Dynex but I'd definitely buy it with a credit card that doubles the warranty instead of paying for an extended warranty.
Never heard of Dynex, is it some kind of house brand or offshoot of a more major brand? I looked on Amazon and Dynex is the vendor for various cables, etc. but no high end electronics of any kind. Thanks for the deal, I was waiting for another panasonic blowout somewhere but might go for this.
adeininger
New Member
posted: Sep. 27, 2009 @ 11:52a
from HDGuru.com: "Dynex and Insignia are not really TV manufacturers. They are brand names used by Best Buy on the models they contract to import. A call to the Best Buy Insignia/Dynex customer service number revealed owners must return it to a Best Buy for warranty service. Only Best Buy in store personnel can answer post-warranty questions.
"The Best Buy visit revealed there is no post warranty service available on Insignia and Dynex TVs. However, according to the salesperson with whom we spoke, you may purchase an extended warranty. This came as no surprise considering the recent recall of an Insignia 26” HDTVs (due to a possible fire hazard) required the return of the TV to Best Buy in Minnesota in exchange for a gift card (Link), not a replacement of the set’s possibly defective power supply"
the 32" dynex from the labor day sale has been working great for me. still waiting for the "i bought company x, it broke in 18 months. never again. i will only buy company y and z now"
honestly though what a terrible name for a company... how do you market something that sounds like "die next"
Panasonic 42adeininger said: from HDGuru.com: "Dynex and Insignia are not really TV manufacturers. They are brand names used by Best Buy on the models they contract to import. A call to the Best Buy Insignia/Dynex customer service number revealed owners must return it to a Best Buy for warranty service. Only Best Buy in store personnel can answer post-warranty questions.
"The Best Buy visit revealed there is no post warranty service available on Insignia and Dynex TVs. However, according to the salesperson with whom we spoke, you may purchase an extended warranty. This came as no surprise considering the recent recall of an Insignia 26” HDTVs (due to a possible fire hazard) required the return of the TV to Best Buy in Minnesota in exchange for a gift card (Link), not a replacement of the set’s possibly defective power supply"
Translation: Dynex and Insignia TV's are disposable products after the warranty expires. Who in their right mind would buy such a product when 42" HDTV's from reputable brands such as Panasonic and LG have dropped to within $60 or less of this price? So what about the fact that the highly respected brands may be 720p models at these lower prices - at normal viewing distances you cannot tell a 42" 720p set apart from a 1080p one.
If you link to 6thAve.com or Abt.com through the above Amazon link, they each have it for under $600 with free shipping. When you add tax on to the $550 at BB, you're talking only a $20-25 difference in price (maybe only a few dollars if you live in an 8% sales tax state) between an excellent TV and a disposable, mediocre-at-best one.
Sorry OP, but this is definitely NOT a hot deal.
My post has received a few red-ratings from Dynex fanbois but so far no one has come up with a good argument to counter my main point, namely, why any sane person would buy this bottom-tier brand, disposable product when you could get a significantly better Panasonic for practically the same price.
I have this TV (paid $599) and frankly, it's very, very good. No, it's not a brand name. But yes, it looks nice when it's off. The picture quality is tremendous (IMHO) and I don't care about the sound because the sound goes to the sound system. Just to protect myself, I got the 4 year warranty from Square Trade ($63 after discount coupon).
The guy at BB tried to tell me that there is a new Dynex 42" with better specs at $649. Sorry, I think I would keep my $100 extra, thank you very much.
VERY green. Also green for the bedroom 32" Dynex for $299 earlier in the year. That one is going strong too (although occasionally the one remote controls both TVs if I aim it right between the two).
lottathought said: I would want to know who actually built the TV for BB to slap their badge on it. Dynex is usually Funai (also known as Sylvania and Emerson, and Symphonic) or Westinghouse Insignia is usually Funai or older LG models (Usually 2 models behind LG's current lineup)
If you go into a Best Buy and pressure a salesperson they can look up the actual supplier. It is unlikely they will (or even know how to) do this though. (The info is found on a relatively unused page of the inventory system)
xiaozhuzi said: Saw $399.99 for Dynax 42' 720p plasma at Sunnyvale, CA BB store. A $300 markdown.
So normally the 720p goes for $100 more than the 1080p.
uhsenli
New Member
posted: Sep. 28, 2009 @ 5:44p
mharris1x said: Never heard of Dynex, is it some kind of house brand or offshoot of a more major brand? I looked on Amazon and Dynex is the vendor for various cables, etc. but no high end electronics of any kind. Thanks for the deal, I was waiting for another panasonic blowout somewhere but might go for this.
I used to work in best buy. Dynex and Insignia are "Best Buy" brands. Best Buy do not manufacture Electronices, but often electronics under their name is manuafacture by another major company behind it. TVs are often manuafacture by LG or Samsung. Feel free to go into a store and ask a manager who really make the product behind the Insignia and Dynex brand.
i know Dynex headsets are made by Cyber Acuastics, Insignia Bluray players are made by Samsung. Isgnia TVs are often made by LG and Samsung.
518people
Member
posted: Sep. 28, 2009 @ 9:45p
I bought early model of Dynex 42" TV last November for $600. So far I am happy with it.
darksamurai
Member
posted: Sep. 29, 2009 @ 8:14a
this deal may be for the LCD but last year I also purchased the 42" plasma. The brand shows Dynex but upon opening it's looking like a samsung panel
lousygolfer said: Panasonic 42adeininger said: from HDGuru.com: "Dynex and Insignia are not really TV manufacturers. They are brand names used by Best Buy on the models they contract to import. A call to the Best Buy Insignia/Dynex customer service number revealed owners must return it to a Best Buy for warranty service. Only Best Buy in store personnel can answer post-warranty questions.
"The Best Buy visit revealed there is no post warranty service available on Insignia and Dynex TVs. However, according to the salesperson with whom we spoke, you may purchase an extended warranty. This came as no surprise considering the recent recall of an Insignia 26” HDTVs (due to a possible fire hazard) required the return of the TV to Best Buy in Minnesota in exchange for a gift card (Link), not a replacement of the set’s possibly defective power supply"
Translation: Dynex and Insignia TV's are disposable products after the warranty expires. Who in their right mind would buy such a product when 42" HDTV's from reputable brands such as Panasonic and LG have dropped to within $60 or less of this price? So what about the fact that the highly respected brands may be 720p models at these lower prices - at normal viewing distances you cannot tell a 42" 720p set apart from a 1080p one.
If you link to 6thAve.com or Abt.com through the above Amazon link, they each have it for under $600 with free shipping. When you add tax on to the $550 at BB, you're talking only a $20-25 difference in price (maybe only a few dollars if you live in an 8% sales tax state) between an excellent TV and a disposable, mediocre-at-best one.
Sorry OP, but this is definitely NOT a hot deal.
Went back to Best Buy and found out that this is made in the same factory as LG.
I would stay far away from Dynex and Insignia, save up a few more bucks and get atleast a Vizio. Flag me if you like but I've had my share with cheapo Dynex/Insignias and returned them only to get a no question ask return policy from BB employees. I find that fishy.
We, where I work, have purchased two of these TV's. One as a Welcome Board and one as a second monitor/presentation screen/TV for a VP. Great TV's so far, especially for the price.
I would go with a well known reputable manufacturer like panasonic especially when those tv's cost as little as $50 more than this. Grant it, this it wont be a high end Panasonic, but at least Panasonic is especially known to make quality TVs such as the best plasmas (now that pioneer is finished). I don't see Dynex winning awards for their picture quality anywhere.
I mean its like buying supermarket brand cola to save some money. Is it really worth saving that little bit of money and give up the taste (and yes i've tried Sam's Cola) of a Coke or Pepsi for a few cents? Same thing with buying cheap/discount brand TVs.
flyboynm said: Went back to Best Buy and found out that this is made in the same factory as LG.
A) I doubt I'd trust the average (or even an above average) BB employee's knowledge and information.
B) Since BB is selling their Dynex and Insignia products at the lowest price point, they have the name recognition and reputation of a brand at the lowest price point, unless they negotiated a heck of a contract with LG or Samsung, why wouldn't they go to a cheaper manufacturer like Funai?
C) While I'd rather have a cheap TV with no prospects of repair post-warranty made by a reputable manufacturer rather than a crappy manufacturer, I still wouldn't spend nearly $600 on something that cannot be repaired once the warranty expires. I spent $30 on a Philips upscaling DVD player a few years ago and view that as being a disposable item once it invevitably breaks. I'm not willing to view a purchase that costs 20x as much in that same fashion.
The OP gave my post above a red rating. Really? You honestly think that your Dynex deal is a better one than one of the Panasonics I linked to in my post above that cost maybe $20 or so more considering sales tax (or maybe even the same if your state has high sales tax) than this disposable HDTV? Even if we consider only the warranty and repairability issue, it seems like a no-brainer in favor of the Panasonic, but if you take into consideration picture quality, I really think you'd have to be a fool if you bought this Dynex over a similarly priced Panasonic, unless you intended to use the display primarily with a computer. If you intend to hook this up to a PC, the extra resolution the 1080p Dynex has over the 720p Panasonic would actually be noticeable, but again, if you intend to use your display for normal TV use at normal viewing distances, you can't tell 720p apart from 1080p resolution until you get up to at least a 50" display.
Finally, maybe I'm a bit shallow, but if I'm spending $600 on a product, I wouldn't want my friends to come over, squint at it and say "Never heard of this brand - is it Chinese?" It would be worth $20 to me alone, on an item that will be viewed by many guests to my house, just to have a name brand item hanging from my wall rather than a bottom-tier brand. With something like computer monitors, there are unknown brands like Hanns G or AOC that make very good products that the average person has never heard of and there are start-up companies, such as Oppo was a few years back with their DVD players, that make outstanding products that have not yet developed name recognition, but Dynex is not in one of those categories and will always be a bottom-tier brand. So maybe I am a bit of a snob, but there is a very rational and reasonble basis behind my snobbery toward Dynex products - how good can it be if no one is willing even to have a service department to stand behind it after its warranty expires?
Sudhakar2k's post above is spot-on. When the cost difference is so little, why would you buy generic supermarket brand versus a category leader? But hey, maybe you like the sort of disappointment and sour taste in your mouth that cheap generic brand soda leaves or find it's a worthwhile trade-off to save a few pennies.
loousygolfer said:"Translation: Dynex and Insignia TV's are disposable products after the warranty expires. Who in their right mind would buy such a product when 42" HDTV's from reputable brands such as Panasonic and LG have dropped to within $60 or less of this price? So what about the fact that the highly respected brands may be 720p models at these lower prices - at normal viewing distances you cannot tell a 42" 720p set apart from a 1080p one."
Sudhakar2k said "I would go with a well known reputable manufacturer like panasonic especially when those tv's cost as little as $50 more than this. Grant it, this it wont be a high end Panasonic, but at least Panasonic is especially known to make quality TVs "
Panasonic isn't perfect! Or the best. And BB / geek squad isn't perfect either. My friend recently had BB give her a free replacement HDTV after they couldn't fix her high end Panasonic Plasma TV that failed after a month or two. Took BB/geeks quad almost 6-7 months to figure out they couldn't fix it, and that they needed to simply replace the defective tv.
Concorde
New Member
posted: Sep. 29, 2009 @ 12:29p
Dynex , Insignia and Proscan are the Compaq computers of lcd tv's. They used cheap components and B-grade screens, not by LG. Once the 1-year warranty expires, if you call someone in to fix it, you will be without a tv for weeks as it's hard to find parts for these cheapo tv's. We had a older 720p insignia that lasted about 15-months before it died and went to the landfill. Would have cost more than it was worth to fix it. Consider better brands like Panasonic, Vizio, and Sharp unless you like throwing your money away.
sartor said: loousygolfer said:"Translation: Dynex and Insignia TV's are disposable products after the warranty expires. Who in their right mind would buy such a product when 42" HDTV's from reputable brands such as Panasonic and LG have dropped to within $60 or less of this price? So what about the fact that the highly respected brands may be 720p models at these lower prices - at normal viewing distances you cannot tell a 42" 720p set apart from a 1080p one."
Sudhakar2k said "I would go with a well known reputable manufacturer like panasonic especially when those tv's cost as little as $50 more than this. Grant it, this it wont be a high end Panasonic, but at least Panasonic is especially known to make quality TVs "
Panasonic isn't perfect! Or the best. And BB / geek squad isn't perfect either. My friend recently had BB give her a free replacement HDTV after they couldn't fix her high end Panasonic Plasma TV that failed after a month or two. Took BB/geeks quad almost 6-7 months to figure out they couldn't fix it, and that they needed to simply replace the defective tv.
Panasonic does make the best Plasmas now. It used to be Pioneer. With regards to your friend three things are relevant. 1) One incident does not make a trend. So don't look at just one incident. Look at rates, and I bet the rate of failure of Panasonic TVs is lower that the cheaper brands. 2) She could have always have it repaired or replaced through Panasonic since it was under warranty. 3) Bestbuy is the last place i would go to get a TV repaired(or anything else for the matter). By "at least Panasonic is especially known to make quality TVs" i meant that Panasonic has been making TVs for 30+ years, and in general has gained a reputation over that time to making good products. That does not mean 100% of their products will never fail.
I'm on the other side of this equation....I've had 3 Panasonic plasmas fail because of the power supply issue. One failed when the tech came to calibrate it. To BB's credit they did an exchange each time with no hassle. I finally got fed up and got a Samsung and have been happy with it.
As far as Dynex, Insignia, etc. my opinion is if you like it buy it. Warranty aside how many of you have bought "technology" items that you paid >$500 for that are now obsolete not because they broke but because technology advances made them that way ( I've got a real nice Replay for sale cheap).
Why are you messing with Dynex when for just $50 more ($599) at the same store you can get a beautiful Sharp Aquos 40" 1080P with dynamic contrast? Granted it's 40" instead of 42" but I would say it is far superior, especially the brand! And it has 4 HDMI inputs not 3.
I have this tv. bought it 3 months ago for $599, and got a 3 year extended warranty so I'm covered for 4 years. total with tax was $700 (warranty was $50). If in 4 years the tv breaks and they can not fix it, they will give me the $600 credit towards a new tv. by then, you can get much better TV's for that same price.
As far as teh sharp aquos. I spent about 4 hours in the store comparing the sharp and the dynex side by side with the same blueray disk ( I had them hookup a blue ray player to each tv and play the same disk).
The sharp had poorer contrast, poorer sharpness and overall had a much lower quality picture then the dynex. Even my non-tech wife could tell the big difference between the two.
I think I got a decent deal on a decent quality tv that is good for atleast the next 4 years, by that time it would be obsolete anyways.
Did you also have them properly calibrate the TVs, or did you use the settings they have on the show room floor? That will make a huge difference as to how the TVs will look.
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MrAnon
New Member
posted: Nov. 12, 2009 @ 7:44p
When discussing my pending Dynex purchase at BB, I mentioned reading that they were manufactured by Toshiba and just re-branded. He shrugged and said, "Yeah, well, it just depends on who wins the contract that year, just like the Insignias."
Which leads me to believe that the manufacturing contract for the house brands is opened for bids annually, so that the 2008 Dynex's might be Toshiba, the 2009s Funai, the 2010s Samsung, etc.
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