PS3 demand

[MCHufnagel]

No wonder Phil Harrison said that "demand is unprecedented" for the PS3, Newegg is giving them away!

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16889101094

Edited March 6, 2007 by MCHufnagel

[CPUWIZ]

Best Buy did the same thing, overprice the TV by 600 bucks and make it look like you are getting the PS3 free. I bet it worked too. LOL

 

I saw that same Sharp TV at Fry's for $1999.00.

[MCHufnagel]

Best Buy did the same thing, overprice the TV by 600 bucks and make it look like you are getting the PS3 free. I bet it worked too. LOL

 

I saw that same Sharp TV at Fry's for $1999.00.

Are you sure it was the 46" model or a Black Friday special? A friend of mine bought the 42" model for $1999. $1999 for a 46" 1080p is a great deal. This set sells in the Detroit area for the same price as newegg has it.

Edited March 6, 2007 by MCHufnagel

[CPUWIZ]

Best Buy did the same thing, overprice the TV by 600 bucks and make it look like you are getting the PS3 free. I bet it worked too. LOL

 

I saw that same Sharp TV at Fry's for $1999.00.

Are you sure it was the 46" model or a Black Friday special? A friend of mine bought the 42" model for $1999. $1999 for a 46" 1080p is a great deal. This set sells in the Detroit area for the same price as newegg has it.

 

Hmm, you could be right, this was months ago.

[Albert]

I looked at Shopper.com and the prices range anywhere from $1,899 to $2,999 for this set. So Newegg's price is a bit high, but not completely out of line when compared to many of these other retailers (for instance, it's $2,519 at Circuit City and $2,799 at Dell and CompUSA).

 

http://shopper.cnet.com/4014-6482_9-320690...&tag=ob_200

 

..Al

[MCHufnagel]

I looked at Shopper.com and the prices range anywhere from $1,899 to $2,999 for this set. So Newegg's price is a bit high, but not completely out of line when compared to many of these other retailers (for instance, it's $2,519 at Circuit City and $2,799 at Dell and CompUSA).

 

http://shopper.cnet.com/4014-6482_9-320690...&tag=ob_200

 

..Al

Quite a price difference between sellers. I was disappointed with the reviews though. My friends 42" is quite nice, but maybe the 46" is different enough to have quality issues.

[eric_ruck]

Could also have to do with being stuck with lots of PS3s and lots of high end LCDs. since the low end models are eating their lunch. I don't know how Sharp compares to, say, Olevia, but the prices sure don't compare.

 

Personally if you're going to spend that much money on a TV you should just pick the one that looks best to you and has the features you want, and bite the bullet.

 

Oh yeah, and be prepared for the cost of mounting it on your wall when you realize it won't fit in the entertainment cabinet. Including the cost of new, longer cables to reach the components that are still in the cabinet. I mounted my TV myself, but when with all the gizmos I have hooked up, and the fact that I wanted to mount it over the mantle (= expensive mount that telescopes and tilts down), I probably spent a third as much as the TV cost to hook it up.

 

Eric

[Paranoid]

Yeah, wall mounting is an overpriced scam, because they know if you've got the TV to do it, you've got the money to pay a premium.

[misspent_youth]

You shouldn't have paid more than $100 for the mount, even ones that tilt. Not sure what good telescoping is on a big panel anyway, but I guess it makes sense on a smaller one. Cables are dirt cheap as well. Maybe $200 at the outside to wall mount and hook up a flat panel. Before anyone asks, I got my mount at Costco and my cables at monoprice.com.

Edited March 9, 2007 by misspent_youth

[MCHufnagel]

Could also have to do with being stuck with lots of PS3s and lots of high end LCDs. since the low end models are eating their lunch. I don't know how Sharp compares to, say, Olevia, but the prices sure don't compare.

 

Eric

IMO, my friend's 42" Sharp is a 1080p set and it looks much nicer (and was much pricier) than my 37" 720p Vizio. Although we have yet to find a 1080p broadcast in the Detroit area, so I don't think that's the reason. You're right about low end model sales. It seems like the bottom is dropping out on HDTV prices. I wouldn't be surprised to see a 42' 1080p LCD selling for around $1000 by next Christmas in B & M stores.

I've read since my earlier post that the larger screen models are built at a different plant. That may account for the quality differences.

 

Anyway, CPUWIZ was right about newegg selling the 46" set at a high-end price, at least for online stores.

[Albert]

You shouldn't have paid more than $100 for the mount, even ones that tilt. Not sure what good telescoping is on a big panel anyway, but I guess it makes sense on a smaller one. Cables are dirt cheap as well. Maybe $200 at the outside to wall mount and hook up a flat panel. Before anyone asks, I got my mount at Costco and my cables at monoprice.com.

Another good place to buy cables is RiteAV.com:

 

http://www.riteav.com/

 

I've bought a wide variety of cables and adapters there--the prices are great and they ship the same day.

 

..Al

[jay2068]

 

I've bought a wide variety of cables and adapters there--the prices are great and they ship the same day.

 

..Al

 

 

Awesome site AL! Thanks for the tip!

[eric_ruck]

I'm positive I could have gotten the mount cheaper than a local place, but when the TV shows up on your doorstep and you didn't really think about mounting hardware when you bought it, well, you're gonna run out and buy some so you can put that bad boy up on the wall that night.

 

Also I found that the mounts for 46" and above were more expensive than 42" and down, and I wanted one that would pull away from the wall about 8 inches so I could get behind it and mess with the wires when I felt like it, given the whole retro-game thing. Right now I do have a 2600 and Sega CDX hooked up along with the three new gen systems.

 

And given how high I was mounting it, I wanted more than 10 degrees of tilt, the one I have now tilts 20 degrees.

 

Then of course it's not just one cable I needed to replace...a 12' HDMI for the cable box, another for the PS3, the off-brand 12' component video cables for the 360, long composite cables for the Wii, a bunch more long composite cables for older systems, long S-Video and 2 audio cables for the DVD player (which I guess I don't really need), long coax for the VCR I still keep hooked up although I'm not sure why...you get the idea. I bought a lot of cables, since pretty much none of the old ones reached.

 

So regardless of where you buy them, you're going to be laying out some extra money.

 

Eric

[Albert]

 

I've bought a wide variety of cables and adapters there--the prices are great and they ship the same day.

 

..Al

Awesome site AL! Thanks for the tip!

Hope you find it useful--I've placed at least three separate orders there thus far. I found them a year ago when I was looking for an M1 to HDMI Adaptor, which I needed for my InFocus projector (the M1 connector is an evil proprietary connector--very similar to DVI, but just different enough that you need special cables and/or adapters).

 

Monoprice.com is also quite good--I recently bought a 5x1 HDMI switch for less than $100. That's a good deal less than virtually anywhere else--some places are selling that same switch for several hundred dollars:

 

http://www.monoprice.com/products/product....at=2&style=

 

..Al