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Originally Posted by McG
and let's not forget the propensity of stores to leave their tv sets unadjusted, at unrealistic settings straight from the factory floor. or worse, to adjust to make the higher margin ones look better.
a well adjusted tv set looks great!
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This. I just finished revamping my entire TV collection (2 40" LCD, and one 63" plasma), and I noticed a lot of stores had the lower priced stes, set to dimmer levels. The Samsung Plasma was the worst culprit. They had the model up set on 70% brightness and the cheaper model on 20%, and I pretty much busted the salesman in a huge lie, as he was telling me they were at the same settings before I went to the menus to adjust both of them. LOL, he didn't realize I was replacing Samsung DLP's and the menus are virtually identical. Because of this I went to a different strore (memory express) where they guys tend to be pretty honest.
As far as brand, I find Samsung is the bang for your buck in TV's right now, and they are the nicest "looking" TV's in relation to their bezels/stands. And I highly recommend Memory Express, right now they are the dirty little secret for TV deals, as a lot of people don't realize that they are becoming a pretty big player in the TV market. You should check them out, they have some pretty crazy deals on LCD's right now.