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$1299 at FRYS ... most other places have it for ~$1600

Is this a good deal? I am in the market for a HDTV between 42" and 46". My budget is upto $1350.

FYI ... return policy:

"Televisions (24" or larger)

Refunds cannot be given on televisions 24" and larger. In-home service is offered by the manufacturer on large TV's and may be your most convenient option. Defective items may be returned within 30 days of the purchase date for replacement or upgrade. Please insure sufficient packaging is used to protect any return shipments. Customer is responsible for any damage caused due to insufficient packaging."

I am not sure if you have a Frys near you if you could go to the store to return it or exchange...

disposable said:this looks like one of those deals that is "too good to be true" but then IT IS TRUE and you missed it because you were too busy trying to figure out what's wrong.

just do it, fatwallet rule #1, "buy first, think later."

No wonder your title is "Broke Member"

I was looking at this and it's smaller brother the 40S at Target last week and picture quality was great. There's a few reviews at Amazon here link

I'm hoping this means the 40S will be dropping in price soon.

nuck44 said:No wonder your title is "Broke Member"
you're right, your deal really does suck, i'm sorry i said anything positive

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nuck44 said:FYI ... return policy:

"Televisions (24" or larger)

Refunds cannot be given on televisions 24" and larger. In-home service is offered by the manufacturer on large TV's and may be your most convenient option. Defective items may be returned within 30 days of the purchase date for replacement or upgrade. Please insure sufficient packaging is used to protect any return shipments. Customer is responsible for any damage caused due to insufficient packaging."

I am not sure if you have a Frys near you if you could go to the store to return it or exchange...
That's a good thing to know. Sadly even Amazon and Newegg doesn't take returns on bigger TVs.

fyi, I hate yet to read anything on avsforum that's permanently bad about the Samsung A550 series... at least nothing you can't get used ot or wouldn't be obvious when you buy it.

There's a ton of posts however on people who bought a new Sony, especially the V series, and wound up with little white dots popping up on the screen randomly while watching things. Thay call it 'sparkling'. If you buy this, be prepared to either deal with that or get ready for possibly a couple rounds/weeks of repair visits and swapping lcds that might not even fix the problem (since Sony has not officially acknowledged it at this time).

Given how hard it is to track down waht causes a couple stray white pixels in a video feed when you have to deal with the source, the cable, the jack, the HDMI chipset, the bravia engine, the motionflow, etc.... I'd expect it will take them a long time to correct and it probably won't be fixable with a firmware update.

As opposed to say banding or clouding on the screen which, while requiring a TV swap, is at least obvious and noticable.

The price however is exceptional. Now if only someone could find some hard docuemnted evidence tha the TV changes to 48 or 72hz to run 24fps content....... that's been a bone of contention for a while now

not sure about samsung. Our office bought 5 samsung LCD monitors Dec 2006, and they are all having some problems. I'm not sure about samsung quality/durability. Seems Sony, sharp, or Philips would be my choice.

lzpoof said:fyi, I hate yet to read anything on avsforum that's permanently bad about the Samsung A550 series... at least nothing you can't get used ot or wouldn't be obvious when you buy it.

There's a ton of posts however on people who bought a new Sony, especially the V series, and wound up with little white dots popping up on the screen randomly while watching things. Thay call it 'sparkling'. If you buy this, be prepared to either deal with that or get ready for possibly a couple rounds/weeks of repair visits and swapping lcds that might not even fix the problem (since Sony has not officially acknowledged it at this time).

Given how hard it is to track down waht causes a couple stray white pixels in a video feed when you have to deal with the source, the cable, the jack, the HDMI chipset, the bravia engine, the motionflow, etc.... I'd expect it will take them a long time to correct and it probably won't be fixable with a firmware update.

As opposed to say banding or clouding on the screen which, while requiring a TV swap, is at least obvious and noticable.

The price however is exceptional. Now if only someone could find some hard docuemnted evidence tha the TV changes to 48 or 72hz to run 24fps content....... that's been a bone of contention for a while now

My understanding is that the S series has the Bravia engine and not the Bravia 2.....and that the S series does NOT suffer from the sparkle effect.

Anyone heard otherwise?