Deal of the Day - 6/9/11

Hello All,

Sellout.woot is selling a 37" Vizio HDTV for $325 shipped to your door.  This TV is perfect for the bedroom or a smaller living area.  The TV has the following specs

• Built in tuners - NTSC/ATSC/QAM - Capable of pulling HD signals free from an antenna
• 1080p resolution
• 60 Hz screen refresh

This TV is not the best one out there by any means, but for the price it is hard to beat.  This is a today only deal, and at that price I bet they sell out.

You can find it here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 4/8/11

Hello All,

Frys has a great deal on a Toshiba 46G300U 46" TV.  It is a 1080p, 120Hz, LCD TV, for only $499 plus shipping.

You can find it here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 8/27/10

Hello All,

Two deals actually today.  If you need a TV, today is your lucky day.  Woot and Sellout.woot are selling refurbished Philips HDTVs for today only.

At woot you can find a 32" HDTV.  The TV has 3 HDMI jacks and a VGA jack so you can use it as a computer monitor.  The only slight against it is that it does not have a QAM tuner, so if you have cable you will need a box to get your HD channels on it.  It does have a over the air HD tuner, for hooking up an antenna, but it will not pull in the digital channels.  It is $304.99 shipped to your door, a great price for a bedroom TV or a TV used a computer monitor.  You can find it here.

At sellout.woot you will find a 42" HDTV.  This TV also has 3 HDMI jacks, and it will play music and pictures from USB drives. It has a QAM tuner, but does not have a VGA input.  This TV is $504.99 shipped to your door and would be a great TV for your living room.  You can find it here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day #2 - 2/20/10

Hi All,

They are giving away LCD TVs these days.  Literally giving them away.

• 37" Vizio 1080p for $459 shipped
  
  
• 40" Sony 1080p for $650 shipped - yes Sony
  
  
• 40" Toshiba 1080p for $589 shipped
  
  
• 47" LG 1080p for $698 shipped
  
  
• 42" LG 1080p for $550 shipped
  
  
• And last but not least a Sharp 47" 1080p 120Hz for $750

I would buy the last one if I were in the market, that one is the best by the numbers of the bunch.  The interface on the LGs is very good and easy to use for non-technical people.  I would buy one of them for my parents.

Lastly, the 42" LG's price fluctuated yesterday.  Sometimes it was 550 sometimes it was 650.  If you do not get the 550 just try again.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day #2 - 1/29/10

Hi All,

One more for this morning, also from Newegg.  They are selling a 47" LG LCD for $999.99 plus $30 shipping.  This by itself is decent.  The TV is 120Hz if you believe that hype and LG is a good second tier TV maker.  The kicker, the reason you might want this tv is because it is wireless.

Yes that is right, wireless.

You can mount this on the wall with just a power cord.  It has a media hub that you plug everything into and can beam the signals up to 30 feet away.  Pretty cool stuff.

Find it here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 12/29/09

Hello All,

Again the deals have been kind of slow as of late.  Newegg is working on fixing that by themselves though, as they are having a 9th anniversary sale on lots of different items.  Here are some of the highlights:

• Toshiba 40" 1080P HDTV - $599.99
• George Foreman G3 Grill - $49.99
• Canon PowerShot SX200IS - $284.00 - Use code EMCMNNX57
• NetGear b/g/n router (Refurbished) - $19.99 - Use code EMCMNNX79
• WD 1.5GB Sata 3.5" HDD - $104.99 - Use code EMCMNNX34

You can see all of the deals here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day #2 - 11/9/09

Hello Again,

Sears has a great deal on a 32" Panasonic TV with iPod dock. It has good ratings on Amazon, and Panasonic makes excellent TVs. The iPod dock is neat, you can play your music, videos and pictures on your iPod on the TV. It also has a SD card slot to play pictures directly on the TV.

All and all a nice TV for a very good price.

Find it here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 7/15/09

Hello All,

If you are still waiting on new HDTVs you should probably stop waiting. There are two promising technologies that will be more mainstream in a couple of years, but right now you pay a huge premium for them. Those technologies are LED and OLED. Click on them if you want to learn more. Here is a nice chart on the different display technologies out there.

With the not waiting in mind, here is a nice deal on a Sony 40" LCD TV. $779.99 shipped to your door. You can find reviews here, here, and here.

Find the TV here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day #6 - 7/2/09

Hello All,

If you are waiting on the whole TV, Blue-Ray thing, now is the time to act. Until Saturday night Best Buy has an awesome deal on an HDTV and a PS3. For $1300 you get a 46" Sony Bravia TV, an 80GB PS3, Wall-E on Blue-Ray, and Little Big Planet for the PS3. This is a savings of $600 over regular prices.

You can find this deal here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 3/25/09

Hello All,

Woot is selling a brand new Sony 32" LCD TV for $484.99 shipped to your door.

This is a good price for a Sony 32" and people really like this TV. You can find reviews of the TV here and here.

You can find this deal here.

If you buy the TV, here are the calibrated settings for the best picture.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 1/21/09

Hello All,

Best Buy has a great deal on a 46" 1080p Plasma HDTV. They are selling it for $999.99. You can find this deal here. Panasonic makes great TVs and technically plasma is better than LCD. I always passed on them in the past due to the additional cost, and energy usage, but this TV is $300 less than my 46" Samsung LCD and it has a better picture.

If you have yet to get into the HDTV game, this TV is a great one to get to jump in to the game.

Another plus with this TV is all the reviews are glowing. You can find reviews here, here, and here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day #2 - 12/31/08

Hello All,

Newegg is selling a Toshiba 40" 1080P LCD HDTV for $750 shipped to your door.  You can find the deal here.

Use coupon code EMCBCDADC to get $50 off the current price of $799.

If you are like me and the kind of person who wants something yesterday, before I actually knew I wanted it, Best Buy has it for $749 right now as well.  You can find it here.  The sale price at Best Buy probably runs through the weekend, but I do not know that for sure.

The newegg posts are questionable, but the hard core nerds at avsforum seem to like the TV.  You can find that here.

Personally I like Toshiba's and have two myself.  I would buy this TV if our 34" Philips died.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 12/26/08

Hello All,

Sony is having a 15% off sale on all of their factory refurbished merchandise until 12/27.  I would act quickly as the best stuff will likely sell out fast, or they could end the sale early.  Of note are TVs and car stereos.

• TV outlet
• Car Stereos
• GPS
• DSLR

You can get a Sony 32" TV for under $400 shipped to your door, and a Sony car stereo with auxiliary inputs (for your ipod), and it plays MP3 and WMA cds, for $59.  The GPS is a 4.3" for $85 and the DSLR is a Sony A100 with a lens for under $400.  

I screwed up yesterday and did not grab the extra battery for our DSLR.  The battery in it died and we were forced to use Laura's moms point and shoot.  It was painful.  Once you use a DSLR you will not go back to point and shoots.  I cannot emphasize this strongly enough.  It is like riding a spree after driving a Ferrari.  They both get you from A to B, but that is where the similarities end.  Buy a DSLR, you will be happier than you knew was possible.

I am on vacation or I would post links, and calculate more prices.  If you are at work, you are probably slacking so you can do it yourself.  If you are at home then you have all the time in the world to figure it our yourself :-).

Later,

John

Deal of the Day #2 - 12/14/08

Hello All,

Dell is also offering deals on other stuff, aside from just video games. All include free shipping. You will likely have to pay taxes, but these are still great deals.

• 15% off GPS units of $199.99 or less via code 6?54QT$2NJ0SF5
• 20% off GPS units of $200 or more via code 9G69QQ4?5CK018
• 15% off MP3 players of $149.99 or less via code L9NM75SFZVRRSC
• 20% off MP3 players of $150 or more via code B1D1Q8HJ31GZ29
• 10% off handhelds, tablet PCs, and phones via code DJTNC9J4R?XCWT

Of special note for you high end TV buyers out there

• $700 off the Sony Bravia 52" 1080p LCD HDTV via code T4969NFBQ77PB4, dropping it to 2100.
  

You can find anything Dell sells from here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day #4 - 12/1/08

Hello All,

Fast and Furious from here on out.

New 37" Toshiba HDTV, $609.95 shipped to your door. Find it here.

It has all of the features you want, and none you don't.

For your reading pleasure, here are two articles about HDTVs you should read before you buy one. I like the first one better :-).

1. 10 Things you need to know about HDTVs
   
2. How to buy a HDTV in BF or anyday
   

Later,

John

Deal of the Day #2 - 11/21/08

Hello All,

Meijer is selling a Panasonic 32" TV for $463 shipped to your door. This is a brand new LCD TV with a QAM tuner, and a HD tuner built in. You can use code meijerjhalf to save on shipping. You can find this TV here.

The web site says the deal runs until 12/31/08, but I bet they run out of stock long before then.

You can find reviews here and here. A leading consumer magazine also thinks very highly of this TV, but that magazine will remain nameless, as I don't think they like being named. No one else uses their name anywhere, except newspapers and TV from time to time.

Update: It is sold out already. I will check back to see if it comes back in stock. Amazon has it for $530 if you really want it. A good price, but not a give away like $460.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 10/27/08

Hello All,

Sears is selling a Samsung 40" 1080P LCD TV for $799.99. This is a great price on a brand new 40" TV, from the leading maker of LCD TVs. You can find this deal here. It looks like this deal runs until 11/1/08, but I am not sure on that.

You can find reviews for this TV here, here, and here. I am speculating that this TV is the LN40A550, just with a special model number only for Sears stores.

If you do not want to wait another month until Black Friday, this is great TV deal. TV prices will likely be lower for the Christmas season, but with those prices you have lines, screaming and head aches. Things to keep in mind when making a purchase.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 10/9/08

Hello Again All,

It has been a slow week for good deals. However there are two for today, to try to make up for the long drought.

Woot is selling a brand new Westinghouse 37" 1080p HDTV for $574.99, shipped to your front door. You can find it here. Amazon is selling the same thing for only about $400 more, shipped to your house. The only tiny downside to this TV is that you need a box hooked up to it to get HD. This is not an issue unless you plan on hooking an antenna to it, as you cannot. But for the vast majority of you cable and satellite users who need boxes anyway, this just decreases the price of the TV and removes something you will not use anyway.

***Remember that is for today only, or until they sell out.***

The Canon XSi deal from last week, just got better. Dell is selling the camera for $700, and with a coupon, drops the price to $620, with free shipping, and includes the IS lens. That is cheap. The cheapest I have ever seen that camara. You can find the camera here, and the coupon code is SZT8CS0RVR2HMJ. That coupon is good until October 16th.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 9/23/08

Hello All,

Two TV deals for this morning. One for a 40" one for a 46".

The Sony KDL-40V4100 can be found at buydig.com for $1085 with free shipping. You can find this TV here. You can find a review for this TV here. I used to own an earlier version of this TV and really liked it. I only sold it because we upgraded to a 46" Samsung and the wife made me sell it.

The V series is right in the middle of Sony's offerings. They sell TVs with the following designations M, N, V, W, Z, and XBR. These TVs increase in features from left to right. The W adds a 120Mhz panel, which as I have said before is a gimmick. If you stroll into your local big box store and you can tell a difference between a 60Mhz and 120Mhz, and it is not because the panel is better I would be very surprised. I do not know of any TVs that use the same panel though and offer 120Mhz and 60Mhz in the same TV. Bottom line though, it is the source that matters most, 120Mhz cannot make a really compressed TV feed look any better, or any smoother.

Amazon is selling the Samsung LN46A550 46" LCD TV for $1274.14 with free shipping. You can find that here. The reviews of this TV are good, and Samsung is the leader in LCD TVs. You can find reviewers here and here.

We have the last years model of this TV and really like it. It is a mid range Samsung as well. They show the level of the TV with the first number after the A in the model. This is a 550, the 650, and 750 have more features than this TV. One thing that I really like about our TV, and this TV is the matte screen. The next models up have the glossy screen, but you can get a mirror effect with that screen and I did not like that when I saw it in the store.

These two TVs are more of a mid range TV, and what I bought for our living room. I still stand by the Westinghouse as the best entry level TV on the market. That title would go to Olivia but they just filed for bankruptcy and I would be worried about the availability of parts if they go belly up. Olivia has better panels in there TVs, so if you want to roll the dice on the thing breaking, it is a "better" TV. However if it breaks, you have a really expensive piece of plastic.

Lastly, if you have not read it, this is a good piece to get you started.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day #6 - 9/11/08

Hello Again,

Ok, seriously it will stop relatively soon. Buy.com has a new Westinghouse 37" 1080P TV for $599. You can find the TV here. That is the cheapest I have ever seen a 1080P 37" TV. You will likely not notice the difference between it and 720P unless you sit on the TV, but that is beside the point. It is a 37" for the price of a 32", and that makes it a deal. I could not find any reviews, but old models seemed to have some issues with HDMI handshakes. The Buy.com post says these were fixed with this model.

The only down side to this TV is that it does not have a tuner built in. If you have cable or satellite this does not matter at all, but I wanted you to know anyway.

Later,

John