Posted on 12/19/2008 3:35:31 PM PST by RayChuang88
Help. My old 27" CRT TV died and I'm in need of a replacement TV. Any suggestions for a good 32" LCD model that won't burn a hole in my pocket? I'm thinking about getting a VIZIO VO32L 32" TV, where Costco is selling for US$449 (and they have plenty in stock).
i like both Bravia an LG (or Philips same company)
I bought a Sanyo and realized my mistake.
Make sure its 1080 not 720.
My wife has one of those VIZIO 32” TV’s on the wall in her sewing room ... nice TV. We have had it for over 2 years and no problems and good picure!
I have a Vizio “47 inch. I love it.
We have had one of the Vizio 32” sets as well for over a year. No problems.
My Costco didn’t have any 32s, so I ended up with one from Best Buy, a 34 Samsung, HD. I need to do a tiny bit of “doctoring” to the cabinet it’s in but other than that it’s great. Price was around $600, unfortunately.
Good luck. I sure felt like a dinosaur going out and looking at new TVs. Like I’m from another century, or a nother planet. Sheeesh.
I’m sure you will enjoy your new HDTV...We have three Vizios and they all are very good monitors.
MERRY Christmas!
At 32”, it’s hard to tell the difference. At the extra cost, it’s kind of pointless.
“Make sure its 1080 not 720.”
Does it matter for a 32” screen and do screens that size have a 1080? Just askin.
Thanks for the suggestions. More if possible.
We’re moving to a new house after Christmas, and I plan to adopt HD for the first time and full tilt boogie electronics all over the place.
I heard the Vizio is acceptable from guys at work.
I just got my daughter a 32 Sony Bravia, paid $499 at Walmart on BF.
Walmart has a Sharp 32 now on sale for $398.
720P seems fine for this size set, she loves hers. She had a 27 tube set.
Only your eyes can tell what’s right for you. IMHO 32 is a very convenient ‘bedroom sized’ room set.
So in your opinion a 32 for say a bedroom or spare room looks good enough at 720p that its not worth getting the better one?
I’d try and get a bigger one if it was me. Huge difference between a 32” and a 40 or 42”. The 42”ers are going for a little over $700 and unless it’s for a bedroom you will wish you had a larger one than 32”.
We shop at Costco every single week, and I can tell you we consistently see many many Vizio TV’s sitting around on flats at the Return area.
Not really a good sign ... Jus sayin’
Sharp makes a much better TV than Vizio, and that’s only an additional $50 at Costco. Also, 1080p is almost entirely unnecessary on a 32” set unless you’ve got it within a few feet of your face.
Big Lots starting tomorrow...Sharp 42” 1080p built-in ATSC tuner, 3 HDMI inputs HDTV
....for $699
I think I will likely end up with the VIZIO VO32L 32" LCD panel. I've seen the picture quality and it's quite good. (Sure, the Samsung and Sonys may be better but they want US$75 to US$100 more for the same size panel.) Good thing Comcast does broadcast over-air HDTV channels on "clear QAM" so I will at least be able to see HDTV broadcasts of over-air local channels (e.g., I get to watch the Super Bowl in HD!).
Just finished getting ripped off by Samsung....don’t buy a Samsung.....television died after 19 mos (not even paid off), and Samsung says too bad.
I have a Vizio and it is very good. Whatever you do, but it from COSTCO where they throw in the extra year warranty.
Vizio is good stuff.
Getting ready to buy one myself.
Have it narrowed down to this: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=10714063
Lots of customer reviews.
It’s a matter of viewing distance. A larger screen will show a better and better picture as a) the viewing distance decreases and b) the screen size increases. For a 32”, you really need to be quite close to notice a significant difference in picture quality.
I’ve got 2 Vizios (36” and a 22”) and they are both great. The only thing I’d change is the on-screen display on the 22” is really tiny.
But the picture and features are great!
Is that really going to matter on a 32" screen? Also a 1080i will be more expensive than a 720p at the same screen size.
I was at my local Best Buy yesterday and saw a large stack of boxes of rather inexpensive 720p 32" LCD TV's.
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcat17080&type=page&qp=crootcategoryid%23%23-1%23%23-1~~q70726f63657373696e6774696d653a3e313930302d30312d3031~~cabcat0100000%23%230%23%23wv~~cabcat0101000%23%230%23%236e~~nf330%7C%7C33302671756f743b202d2033392671756f743b&list=y&nrp=15&sc=TVVideoSP&sp=-bestsellingsort+skuid&usc=abcat0100000
Found this info over at slickdeals.net
Sharp 42” LCD 1080p $699 at Big Lots!
http://www.biglots.com/Specials/W...le=f&p=&e=
I just got this ad in the paper. Sale starts tomorrow Dec 20th through Dec 27th. Doesn’t specify which model, not even online, just says 1080p, built in ATSC, 3 HDMI inputs, I don’t think it’s Aquos though. Amazon has a Sharp 42” 1080p 42SB45U (don’t know if it’s the same one) for $931.95. At CC, they have a 32” Sharp 1080p for $899
I have noticed lots of returns on all brands of this technology at Sam’s Club. My guess there would be even more if people were more perceptive about the limitations of current displays.
Vizio is also based in the United States.
Definitely...unless I could find a 1080p model on some crazy sale for the same price, I’d go for it.
Newegg.com has a 1080p one for $499 with free shipping, but I don’t know how good it is. I probably wouldn’t even spend the extra $50.
Reading a owners manual for a Vizio set on their website I saw that Vizio has a digital TV tuner built it, no need for an extra HiDef cable box to get the HiDef channels.
Heh, beat you by about 8 posts....nice to know their are other SD’er Freepers...or does that just make us cheaper freepers
Don’t buy a TV....It just encourages the Commistat leftist propagandists. ;)
Hold it.
You financed a TV?
Not worth the cost for the 1080. In fact, almost all 32 inch sets are 720s as the viewer cannot tell the difference.
One issue with LCDs 37” and under is it most of them have 8-bit processors, which means that you get some “color banding”. Sharp makes a 10 bit 37” set, don’t know about their smaller sizes.
At 6-8’ feet I can see the difference at 1080p on a 37-40” set, however to me it’s almost imperceptible on a 32” at that distance.
All TVs are usually shipped with brightness set way too high and contrasts off as well, you can usually greatly improve the picture on any of them with careful adjustment.
I would suggest pricing an extended warranty over at squaretrade.com.
Yes, I would recommend an upscaling player. Upscaling is pretty common now, you won’t pay much of a premium over a regular player. You will see some benefit from upscaling, and you’ll also see a benefit from using HDMI versus component video. Remember flat panels are digital displays and an HDMI connection will give you a digital signal all the way from the source to the display, the component connections were analog of course.
BTW, you can get good quality HDMI cables pretty cheaply, you don’t need to spend a lot of money just because it’s HDMI. Here in the U.S. Monoprice.com has reasonably priced cables of all kinds.
C|Net Vizio 32” review: http://reviews.cnet.com/flat-panel-tvs/vizio-vo32l/4505-6482_7-33130431.html?tag=mncol;lst
I don’t know if they make a 1920 x 1080 pixel 32” or not, but if they do, I’d try to get one of those. It’s also fun to be able to use a flat panel TV as a computer monitor, so I’d make sure it has that capability.
probably 80% of my watchin' is sports
PS: I think the Consumer Reports review was in their Nov. ‘08
issue...but could be off a month.
If you arean’t talking HD-TV, you’re not spending your money wisely.
Why?
My advice is bigger, bigger, bigger, once you get a big one you want it a little bigger. Get the biggest you can afford and don’t let 720p scare you away, it takes a magnifying glass to tell the difference from 720p to 1080i and 1080p.
Check out a Phillips.......
I don't think any manufacturers sell anything other than digital TV's in the US. I doubt any 32" or above TV available new today is anything but HDTV. Most of the smaller screen TV's are 720p rather than 1080i, but they are still HDTV.
get a 1080p instead of 720p (the number of lines of resolution-very clear picture)
someone once told us about the three “s”’s; sony, samsung and i forget the other.
prices have come down for the 1080p because of the 2160p that’ll be coming out soon.
you can also get a cd that allows you to tune it for about fifty dollars. (some stores include it in an installation package for about three hundred dollars.)
an expensive proposition all around.
we chickened out recently and bought a flat screen crt 28” for $165 instead of an lcd at 7 of 8 hundred dollars.
(some stores will let you put it on a credit card with no interest for six months.)
good luck and good viewing.
OUCH! ;-)
ditto.
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