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Old November 21st, 2009, 03:38 PM
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I'm looking for advice on a big purchase. Anyone else sharing a good deal or looking for some peer advice is welcome to post here as well.

I'm considering buying a 40" LCD TV from Best Buy. Here's the Best Buy page with the TV.

It's $499. I've never heard of Dynex. Some reviews say the sound is not great. I'm planning on buying a surround sound system anyway. Will suboptimal sound output be fixed by a separate surround sound system?

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Old November 21st, 2009, 04:37 PM
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I'm looking for advice on a big purchase. Anyone else sharing a good deal or looking for some peer advice is welcome to post here as well.

I'm considering buying a 40" LCD TV from Best Buy. Here's the Best Buy page with the TV.

It's $499. I've never heard of Dynex. Some reviews say the sound is not great. I'm planning on buying a surround sound system anyway. Will suboptimal sound output be fixed by a separate surround sound system?
From what I see, the TV's built-in speakers suck, so installing a sound system will remedy that. I haven't heard of Dynex, but most electronic goods on sale for Black Friday are usually generic brands anyway. I've never had a problem with any of them (SD cards, digital photo frames, etc.)
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Re: Black Friday deals

At my house, we have a Dynex. We've had it for 3 or so months and we've had no problems. Ours is a 42". 3 HDMI ports and the ability to use it as a computer monitor is a nice feature too.

EDIT: I believe Dynex is the Best Buy brand. Like Roundy's is to Cub Foods

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Dynex is Bestbuy's in House brand. Think Sam's Club Soda @ Wally World. They are produced by LG.




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Re: Black Friday deals

The Dynex you have, is it 60mhz? If I want something with 120 mhz I'll have to spend another $150-200. Is it worth it? And the color contrast on the Dynex was lower than others. I don't know if I'd be able to spot the difference, but some have 4k (whatever the unit) and others have 20k.

So many choices.

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Re: Black Friday deals

Dynex is great except for sound. We have an awesome one we got in July (32in for 300 bucks). Sound is abysmal - all treble and no bass. Picture is extremely sharp and vivid with no issues at all.

And if anyone wants to know what deals are going on, hit Blackfriday.info - many great deals there. Wal-mart is having awesome tv deals as well, starting with a 32in Emerson LCD for 249.00 and Rock Band for 360/PS3 for $50.00 (thats not the game only, thats with all the gear too).

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The Dynex you have, is it 60mhz? If I want something with 120 mhz I'll have to spend another $150-200. Is it worth it? And the color contrast on the Dynex was lower than others. I don't know if I'd be able to spot the difference, but some have 4k (whatever the unit) and others have 20k.

So many choices.
Ours is 60hz. At my mother's house we also have the Isignia Counterpart with similar stats. I can't tell much of a difference in picture. I would have no reference point to help you with the 120 hz, considering I haven't seen one enough to compare. I think a 40' TV for 500$ is a nice deal, (possibly qualify for Best Buy Rewards?).

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Re: Black Friday deals

You have to be careful - there are tons of fake numbers that mean nothing used by many brands to make them seem better like Dynamic contrast of 1 million to 1 and other such.

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Re: Black Friday deals

Small post hijack...

Anyone have experience of online game stores having Black Friday sales? Our game group is interested in picking up a few new titles but, I'm usually the one that does the research....

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