Bargain alert! 32" HD Ready LCD TV for £399...can you get one?

GT60

ilike points just asked about the staff discount at argos yes is the answer it is on every thing reduce or not

mirandamayhem

jonnydoe wrote:

Excellent post from someone who knows what he's talking about. Large LCD on normal (non HD) sky digital at low price = pixelation.. Go out and buy one now if you want a large screen with a bad picture (compared to a CRT). Why do you think HD was invented? to get rid of this problem.. Sit tight until HD is more commonplace.. Complete waste of money in my opinion..

:rolleyes: yes, a total waste of money. Everyone stop buying any upgrade of any sort because it's a matter of time before your upgrade is outdated, and you'll really wish you'd waited 1, 5, 10, 15 years before buying something

stunno

back on topic, the Argos tv in the OP is still available to collect from the Redcar Store according to the Argos website, if anyone is interested

Sceggs

The technosonic tv's are hard to get hold of, but every now and then they can be ordered either off the website or by going into a store and using their ordering service there. It is worth checking regularily as they can appear back in stock at any time.

Searcher2

jonnydoe wrote:

Excellent post from someone who knows what he's talking about. Large LCD on normal (non HD) sky digital at low price = pixelation.. Go out and buy one now if you want a large screen with a bad picture (compared to a CRT). Why do you think HD was invented? to get rid of this problem.. Sit tight until HD is more commonplace.. Complete waste of money in my opinion..

I am not sure what you classify as large LCD but you can't easily buy a 42" CRT. I was apprehensive about going down the flat screen (LCD/plasma) route after CRT...but wow... what a difference. Movies never looked so good and I am impressed with the SD Freeview quality too. Mine is plasma rather than LCD however and I would in no way classify it as a complete waste of money.

As an aside... Freeview is in general better being built in rather than using set top boxes. For one thing you have one less remote control to have floating about and another the quality is usually better (less connections for a start).

mat01

MSE_Martin wrote:

I do find this kind of post a little annoying.


1. This site is talking about this because its a 'money saving site' not a 'lets find the best technology site'. These are as far as Im aware the cheapest 32" LCD TVs on the market. That's the info I'm providing and many people are glad. The service reports are good - not great - but this is about getting a good deal and these TVs are (my friend bought the woolies one last time it was available and is very much enjoying it!)

As for the digital tuner, these are available separately cheaply. There is no need for an in-built tuner. Many people have sky, freeview and other boxes. A tuner is now priced at less than £20 - it is cheaper to get this TV and a tuner than to buy an all in one. Of course when HD freeview is available we'll see the prices rise; though some have HD Sky already (not that impressive though yet, I have it - very little is broadast. Hence why I say its future proofing).

2. As for the criticism about the links. Did you notice the * - did you read what it meant? Did you see that every link that ever has a * on this site explains why and has a full page about it. I believe in transparency. There is nothing on this site here because "it's paid", yet if something is on the site anyway (as these TVs are) then we try and get paid links. Why? Well the servers cost over £100,000 a year to start with, then there's the techie team, the charity fund, the MSE team.

This site has a very open ethical financial policy - nothing is hidden - and when people try and criticise the policy as if there's some kind of secret - without having done the reading - it cheapens what the whole place is about!

Martin

Gosh - well sorry to buck the trend here and rock the boat a little.

My apologies to all the people mortally offended for questioning something - isn't that something that Martin himself encourages customers to do of big financial institutions?

My point is simple. This deal may be a 'money saver', but what if in reality - it isn't. What if it's a bad value for money TV, that will be technologically out of date in two years and maybe provides appaling quality now? What if for another 100 pounds you could get something that's much much better? Then - this 'money saver' becomes a 'money waster'.

See the post by the TV engineer chap on this thread about LCD TVs and digital tuners.

Assuming that a clever chap like Martin understands this concept, then one has to ask why this item is a headline in his half a million plus distribution list.

Martin - I fully understand your argument - I suppose this site and you need money to survive. I saw the *, but it doesn't really change things too much for me.

PS - If your servers are costing you £100,000 a year, you are not getting a very good deal (ironically). I run several websites, one of which has medium to high traffic, and it certainly doesn't cost my company £100,000 a year!

PPS - The idea about donations is a very good one. It might iron out doubts like the ones I've expressed here.

pin

BTW there is stock at the Argos in Croydon.

codger

mirandamayhem wrote:

:rolleyes: yes, a total waste of money. Everyone stop buying any upgrade of any sort because it's a matter of time before your upgrade is outdated, and you'll really wish you'd waited 1, 5, 10, 15 years before buying something

With all due respect aren't you missing the point by several, er, miles????

An upgrade is NOT an upgrade if it's to an inferior technology.

So going from a CRT screen to an LCD screen would seem to be -- according to a lot of owners posting on the web and in the opinion of posters here with a pretty comprehensive knowledge of the topic -- a downgrade where the imaging quality of many LCD TVs is concerned.

For now.

All technology matures. Colour CRT was awful at debut but now. . ?

I thought the posters who are counselling delay are doing so not because they're stuck-in-the-mud but because they're saying that sooner rather than later, LCD TV technology will be fully mature (and judging by Panasonic, that day isn't far off).

So it's at that time when an upgrade will be an upgrade. And not the reverse.

stunno

mat01 wrote:

Gosh - well sorry to buck the trend here and rock the boat a little.

My apologies to all the people mortally offended for questioning something - isn't that something that Martin himself encourages customers to do of big financial institutions?

My point is simple. This deal may be a 'money saver', but what if in reality - it isn't. What if it's a bad value for money TV, that will be technologically out of date in two years and maybe provides appaling quality now? What if for another 100 pounds you could get something that's much much better? Then - this 'money saver' becomes a 'money waster'.

See the post by the TV engineer chap on this thread about LCD TVs and digital tuners.

Assuming that a clever chap like Martin understands this concept, then one has to ask why this item is a headline in his half a million plus distribution list.

Martin - I fully understand your argument - I suppose this site and you need money to survive. I saw the *, but it doesn't really change things to much for me.

I don't post on here much, but tend to have a look in most days to see if there is anything that I 'must' have that's going cheap. And to be hones I've never read such a load of rubbish on here before!

Who is forcing you to buy this tv? Martin? The aliens? Mr Blair? The tv is there, it is cheaper than it was, so it's saving money IF YOU WANT ONE

If its a crap tv DON'T BUY IT!! I think the internet term is DYOFR - that's Do Your Own (insert expletive here) Research

If Martin raises a couple of sheckels to help with his bills then great! Its not like he is being underhand about it

/rant over

As it happens I need a new tv, my criteria are 28"+ and 'cheap', and this doesn't happen to fit one of those, so I move on, comfortable with the fact that its not for me but some people might happily buy one

stunno

codger wrote:

With all due respect aren't you missing the point by several, er, miles????

An upgrade is NOT an upgrade if it's to an inferior technology.

So going from a CRT screen to an LCD screen would seem to be -- according to a lot of owners posting on the web and in the opinion of posters here with a pretty comprehensive knowledge of the topic -- a downgrade where the imaging quality of many LCD TVs is concerned.

For now.

All technology matures. Colour CRT was awful at debut but now. . ?

I thought the posters who are counselling delay are doing so not because they're stuck-in-the-mud but because they're saying that sooner rather than later, LCD TV technology will be fully mature (and judging by Panasonic, that day isn't far off).

So it's at that time when an upgrade will be an upgrade. And not the reverse.

I have to agree, my daughter has just bought a big lcd and the picture quality is very average to say the least, unless you sit so far away that you can hardly see it anyway, even through Sky.

crt screens seem to have a richness of colour that the lcds don't seem able to match, although having said that I've never seen it showing a HD picture, which may well be better