Best 42" LED TV for under $500... What to look for...

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Robert M wrote:
Space,

Start at this web site:

In addition to Robert's recommendation, this site is useful:

http://reviews.cnet.com/tv-buying-guide/

Check out the site's "TV Reviews" and "Best TVs" tabs.

[Z]

These guys seem to have done their homework and update things with frightening regularity.

http://thewirecutter.com/leaderboard/tvs/

Z

[silvarios]

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[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Remember that you are getting a 1080 display. Would you sit five feet from a 21.5" iMac? You are doing the same thing if you are sitting ten feet from a 42" TV.

:agree:
Yet people sat 10 feet away from 32" and smaller screens for years. Buy what fits your living space and budget and don't worry about the rest, that's my suggestion anyway. A 42" is likely fine.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

silvarios wrote:
[quote=Article Accelerator]
[quote=Filliam H. Muffman]
Remember that you are getting a 1080 display. Would you sit five feet from a 21.5" iMac? You are doing the same thing if you are sitting ten feet from a 42" TV.

:agree:
Yet people sat 10 feet away from 32" and smaller screens for years.
Those were generally 425i screens. I had a 26" mItsybitsy CRT and I could almost adjust the volume with my toes if I scooted all the way down in my recliner.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

Z wrote:
These guys seem to have done their homework and update things with frightening regularity.

http://thewirecutter.com/leaderboard/tvs/

Z

Did they stop frightening people in 2013? :terror: No 4K and no 802.11ac.

[RAMd®d]

Yet people sat 10 feet away from 32" and smaller screens for years.

For years, a 25" console TV was the TV to sit 10' and farther from.

"YOU'LL RUIN YOUR EYES!!"

[Mr645]

We went shopping for a new bedroom TV last year and after loping at dozens of pictures, the Samsung Plasma sets looked the best and were also on the lower end of the price range. We ended up with a 39" in 720P set that looks better then most of the 1080p sets. They have a 43" and 51" version also

[Z]

They've put off frightening people until at least May.

[AllGold]

Robert M wrote:
Space,

Start at this web site:

Nice site I guess, except they consider "all" TVs to consist of only Samsung, LG, Panasonic and Sony.

[RAMd®d]

I got a 42" 720 X Panasonic plasma for $400 at Wal-Mart.

If I had moved a month or two sooner, I might have got the 1080 S version for close to the same price.



I doubt I'll be able to get a big plasma in time.

By the time I'm ready for a 60" or so screen, I hope there will be something about LCD that makes me forget all about plasma.