Deal of the Day - 2/2/12

Hello All,

Happy belated birthday Farrah, there were no good deals yesterday or you would have gotten a shout out on your actual birthday.  Happy Groundhog Day to everyone.  Right now is the best time to buy a HDTV and boy do I have a deal for you.  Best Buy is selling a Sharp 42" 1080P LCD HDTV for $329.99.  That is crazy low for a nice brand name TV.  We have the same TV just about 2 years older and it was $450 on sale.  These are very good basic TVs.  They do not have all of the bells and whistles like netflix built in, or PIP, but I have never used PIP on the TV we have that has it and I have a Roku box hooked to the Sharp and that works great.  I bet these sell out so move quickly if you want one.  The sale should go through Saturday.  You can find this deal here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 12/8/11

Hello All,

Today only, Sellout.woot is selling refurbished Roku N1000 boxes for $44.99, shipped to your door.  These are similar to the AppleTV, but less money and with more content.  We have one and we love the HBO Go channel, and the Amazon streaming channel.  The units also have a lot of the big and popular channels such as NetFlix, Pandora, YouTube, and Hulu Plus.

You can find this deal here.

If you are leery of the fact that is the prior generation technology, you can get the current, second generation, hardware for $49.99.  You can find that here.  The one advantage the refurbished unit has over the new unit is an ethernet port.  The XS 2, on sale for $90, is a also a worth while upgrade.  It gives you a USB port so you can play anything on a USB stick on the Roku.

One other issue to note.  If you are running your own DNS as we are, the unit will likely fail to connect when you fire it up.  After I changed the dhcp server to use external DNS servers the unit worked great.  I am sure there is a way to fix this issue but I have not looked into it.

Later,

John

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 - 3/11/11

Hello All,

One quick one today.  A 55" LED back lit, LCD TV for $1099, plus about $100 for shipping. It is internet ready with apps for Netflix, Vudu, Youtube, and Picasa.  It is not the best TV in the world, but you can do a lot worse for the money. 

You can find reviews here, here, and here.

You can find it here.

Later,

John

Deal of the Day - 3/5/11 #2

Hi All,

Woot is selling a refurbished Vizio 32" Tv for $254.99 shipped to your door.  This TV is under $10 an inch, a great rule to see if it is a good price or not, has an built in tuner, and two HDMI ports.  This would be a great TV for a bedroom or a smaller room.

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 - 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 - 1/8/10

Hello All,

Another quick one for today and today only.  Sellout.woot is selling refurbished 47" Vizio LCD tvs for $654.99 shipped to your door.  I am not a Vizio guy at all, but 47" for $654 is tough to argue with.  The TV is 1080p, has 4 HDMI slots, and comes with all of the tuners you want (QAM, ATSC, NTSC).

For a comparison in price, Amazon is selling the newest version of this TV for $999.  

The TV market is radically changing right now with 3D tvs rolling out this year, LED powered TVs dropping in price and  OLED right around the corner.  I would suggest not breaking the bank right now as much better TVs will be very affordable, very soon.

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 #2 - 11/4/09

Hello All,

Here is the rest of the Wal-Mart deals for Saturday. They surprising pretty solid for being so far from Christmas, and not Black Friday.

Highlights Include

• $300 - 15" laptop
• $500 - 42" Sharp LCD HDTV
• $150 - Sony Blu-Ray Player

Find them all 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 #2 - 4/20/09

Hi All,

If you are looking to get into HD Video, then this is the deal for you. Canon is selling their HV20 HD Camcorder for $399.99. It is a Canon refurbished camcorder, sold by Canon, that uses MiniDV tapes for the recording medium. This is the best overall media as it is cheap, widely available, and the most durable over time.

It also shoots 1080p. The highest resolution that any consumer TV can currently handle.

The cheapest I could find this model for was $490, and that was used. The new model, the HV30, is $599 new, and it does not really offer any features to warrant the cost.

You can find reviews here, and here.

If you want a quick review, read this. The whole article is a bit dated, but the part on the HV20 is still spot on. Notice the price difference :-). It is funny what almost 2 years do to electronics 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 - 1/22/09

Hello All,

The TV sales seem to be picking up, and it is about time. Newegg is selling lots of TVs on sale, but of note is this 46" Toshiba 1080p TV for $999.99. You can find it here. You can use coupon code MMCHTV50 to drop an addition $50 off the price of this TV, or any TV 42" or larger. This code works until 11:59pm on the 22nd, so act fast if you want one of these TVs.

You can find reviews of this TV here, here, and here.

I have the 32" Toshiba LCD that Newegg is selling and it is a great TV.

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 #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