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I am not up on what the latest and greatest in TV are these days. I know the picture quality is better on Plasma than LCD TVs. I have a friend looking to purchase a new TV from Sam's Club. I am guessing they will want something in the 45" to 55" range. Any suggestion on what to purchase. I think the budget is around $1,200 to $1,500. Any suggestions what to buy for the best quality. I know they should buy the extended warranty so you may want to factor that into the price. Thank you for your help!
Scott
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HD TVs fail, if they're going to, in the warranty period. Buy with American Express and the base warranty period is doubled (or used to be, don't know for sure if they still do that). But that's yer friend's call of course.As for definitely buying a plasma, if it's going to be in a brightly lit room, bad idea. Reflections are a bugger with plasma sets. We have one of each. The plasma is in the media room. The brightly lit living room has an LCD.
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generally I would suggest going plasma if the TV is used in a low ambient light setting or fully darkened room. But one of the LED-lit LCD units might be the better choice under higher ambient light situations.
David
Light from a window is not an issue in the room where it will go. That said, they also want to consider an LED/LCD flat screen. I am just now heading to C-NET to research.
Unless you are going to use the set outside, a plasma will have plenty of brightness.
Plasma sets are very shiny. If you don't use them in a room that's dimmed, they will reflect everything around you constantly. In a bright room, an LCD or LED set is watchable all the time.
Its not the problem people make it out to be. We have ours in the family room with a sliding glass door directly opposite the TV. We have bright light on the west facing patio during the day. With the set off, you do indeed notice the reflections from the patio, but with the set on, it is hardly noticeable. Of course, at night, with no reflections at all, its that much better.
If you buy a cheap model...yes it will glare at you. I have a 52" Panasonic Veira in our master bedroom that has a french door opening into a balcony, glaring/reflection is not an issue at all when watching movies on daylight.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
I also agree, that brightness thing is way over rated.
I would suggest one of the following 2012 Panasonic Plasmas:
TC-P55ST50 55", retail $1,700 [before discounts]
TC-P50ST50 50", retail $1,400 [before discounts]
If they can't swing the ST series then take a look at the UT series:
TC-P42UT50 42", retail $799
TC-P50UT50 50", retail $1,099
TC-P55UT50 55", retail $1,399
I personally would not buy the extended warranty but that's their decision.
Consumer Reports says that flat panel TV reliability has been very good overall, better than the old CRT sets. I never buy extended warranties, and so far at least, I have had no problems with any of my flat panels. I love my Panasonic Plasma.
Then go to costco etc. and see for yourself.
One rule of thumb, the bigger, the better.
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
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