42-inch LED HDTVs to Drop Below $400 Mark

My old SONY is dying. Definitely will be looking for one for Black Friday.

Still rocking 480P on my old tube 'hd' TV in the living room. Anything demanding is watched on the computer, which has a decent 27" at 3-4' away which is plenty big screen for my wife and I. I'm debating about either a 1080p projector for a true big screen experience, or waiting for 4K or 8K screens to come out in a few years.

So... when do we get 42-inch monitors?
I should pick up a couple for my gaming rig.

Wow, a Samsung tattoo on the woman that is showing off (or creepily caressing) a Samsung TV which is displaying another Samsung TV. Isn't that just a little overboard?

So wait, this article keeps going on about LED TV's, so is Black Friday going to offer 42" LED TV's for less than $400 or LCD TV's for that price? Just trying to clarify since LED kind of came out of no where in the article.

Yeah my old Sony TV died within a couple years too. Sony makes great audio stuff but their TVs are junk.

Yo dawg, we heard you like Samsung....

Egad. She has one on her hand too.

Fk Black friday, I'm ot buying isht in this commercial axx holiday!

Two tattoos actually (chest / hand).

On topic, I think the market is pretty saturated at this point. Anyone that actually cares about having new tech already has a decent 40"+ TV. The initial rush for everyone to buy a new LCD to replace their CRT has finished and now people are back to buying on a more normal cycle, which for TVs is a lot longer than the rest of the electronics industry. Add in that everyone and their mom bought a new TV in the last 5 years and there is bound to be a slump until those TVs start to wear out.

I always found it interesting how those companies will brand their girls with temp tattoos of their brand since they know where half the people will be looking.

480P is not considered HD. It is Enhanced Definition. HD is 720P, 1080i, or 1080P.

You guys get to buy 40-inch LED TVs for $400??? I mean, if the article is about LED TVs at all...we get 32-inch LEDs that aren't even full HD for $600+...

Typical Wolfgang. His titles usually come from the last line or two. Thank god there was no mention about Apple monitors. Oh wait, i'm sure they don't sell it for anything less than $1000...

She can caress anything she wants - and it won' t be creepy.

Out of curiosity, are you driving your model T still because you are waiting for flying cars?

I have been on the hunt for a good 40-42 incher and the best I found was a 60hz LCD @$199 and a 120hz LED for $549 on Black Friday. There may be some good prices from online retailers such as Newegg or Amazon or the prices could keep dropping.

My 37" LG is sadly too small for the viewing distance in my living room, but I'm not going to buy another TV in the near future.

If I upgrade, I'm going to do it properly and go for a projector. They are still expensive, but a lot cheaper than a 90" TV would be.

Is the weak demand really due to the economy, or the fact that everybody and their brother already has a flat panel TV?

Of course panels fail and some people wait to upgrade / can't afford it. But I wonder when do we shift the blame from the economy to market saturation. Oh well I suppose it's not truly saturated until I have a 65 in the living room, a 24 in the kitchen and a 42 in the bedroom...

"LED" TV's still use LCD panels. LED is simply the type of backlighting the TV uses.

Still too expensive.

Manufacturers aren't going to admit that market saturation is the cause of weak demand. It's easier for them to blame the economy because everyone knows the economy is crap still....plus, they don't want to admit that there's no justification for buying a "new model" TV if you already own an LCD/LED TV.

But....the manufacturers screaming that it's the economy, is very much like Sharp claiming than their "Quattron" TV's produce truer colors than their competition.....it's all pure BS.

under 100k a year household here, we have 1 48 inch plazma, that is dieing, 1 21 inch 1920x1200 and 1 24 inch same resolution smaller one doubles as a tv, a 36 inch 1080p tv, 2 27 inch crts, a 24 inch 1080p.

the crts are for old games and tv, as i dont have an hd box, and sd on an hd looks like crap. and as for games, i love lightgun games.




are you mocking him because he has everything he needs and is thinking of waiting till the next real advancement comes?

Honestly my 51" 240hz LCD will keep me just fine untill OLED hits the main-stream.

Good news if I was looking for one, but I don't watch TV much anymore.

BRAVO

i got an LG 42 inch @60hz , 1080p LCD last year durring black friday sales for 500 bucks now every one harps on "you need 120 hz" , or "oh you need LED cos it has better blacks" , or "you should get a new 3d TV it's better" , or "check out my quattron" crap.. adn its all jsut pure unadulterated , grade A BULLSHIT.

and here are my reasons why it is

1. my LG is an LG not a fu--ing Vizio or crap brand , it's blacks are awsome and it has shit loads of adujustments if i want "blacker" blacks

2. 60 hz is fine for any tv at 42 inch or smaller if it is a deccently built brand. on my 42 i see no ghoasting form low refresh rate, no wierd artifactsa dn motion of an object across the screen is pefect. 120 hz refresh is only good for 50+size tvs

3. 3d sucks , especially for me because i'm bassically blind in my right eye , there for NO 3d technology every works for me i just see double images .. how cool is that ??? even if 3d did work for me WHY the f--- would i want to wear stupid bulky glasssed on top of my prescription glasses that are already bulky themselves ... every time i watch tv. No thanks.


4. adding a 4th "primary"color makes NO real difference because the three primaries it already had can be blended to make EVERY color the human eye can see, quattron was and is just a stupid over priced effort to sell more TV's i don't know what is funnier ,people thinking there is actually a difference , or the fact that samsung actually paid millions into R&D to develope the technology.





WOWthat'sa lot of tv's dude , LOL i jsut got my 42 inch at the moment , i loaned out my old wide screen SD CRT i used to have well technically it is a ED TV it will pull 480p via component cable if you have one. but point being only got the one 42 1080p LG now.

and yeah i agree with your qeustion about them mocking the other poster. what's up with people knocking this dude , if he is happy with his old tv why do people have to piss in his corn flakes ?

as for SD lookign bad on HD LCD's it all depends on the brand , SD signals running on my LG actually looks pretty damn good to me.

10 years from now, people will beg you to take this TV for free on CL.

Elf ears ftw!