Want a plasma HDTV? Some are now 50% off at Sears.

Must resist to spend house money on this...

Looks like a closeout deal but it may be a good time to check your local Sears and pick one up.

You guys all seem to have incredible lives. Big houses, nice cars, good weather and access to cheap hi-tech electronics. The fact that this thread even exists is amazing to me; I''d never consider posting about cheap TVs at £3,000.

Well, noticed the link is to FatWallet.com

As for houses, mine isn''t big (1900 sq. feet on 6.5 acres), I drive a Geo so it doesn''t get much more humble than that, we had 140 inches of snow this winter, and it was a mild one...but you forgot to mention beautiful wives!! That, I have.

Last thing I bought that was over 1000 dollars was a car, and it was used and at a good price. Not much else besides my house that I would spend so much money on.

Just blew slightly less than $2000 on a new space-age washer and dryer.

Just spent 4000$ on a deck.
No tv for me.

6.5 acres? 1 acre down here is considered huge. Damn you all and your under crowding.

You guys all seem to have incredible lives. Big houses, nice cars, good weather and access to cheap hi-tech electronics. The fact that this thread even exists is amazing to me; I''d never consider posting about cheap TVs at £3,000.

There was a thread lately in which a lot of us were posting our ages(I am to lazy to look it up). The interesting thing is a bunch of us are close to our mid thirties... for myself and my friends that means most of us are 10 years out of post secondary education and past the student loans, initial high cost purchase phase.

In other cases, a bunch of us are in high tech and were employed during ""the bubble"" and did fairly well by that(these are guesses not known facts).

I really hope I am not coming across as arrogant or conceded, but I think the nature of this web-site gathers intelligent, mature individuals. In a lot of cases I think people of that nature tend to have more disposable income. On the other side of the coin we are also geeks, and as such, the collection of high end electronics is part of our nature.

Again I hope this post does not make me sound like an ass.

I drive a Geo

you may notice I did not post to the Gamers with Rides thread... I am currently touring town in a Kia Mini-van....

"Garrad" wrote:
I drive a Geo

you may notice I did not post to the Gamers with Rides thread... I am currently touring town in a Kia Mini-van....

Is it any good? I am most likely going to end up buying one next year.

Is it any good? I am most likely going to end up buying one next year.

the Kia or the Geo?

"Garrad" wrote:

I really hope I am not coming across as arrogant or conceded, but I think the nature of this web-site gathers intelligent, mature individuals. In a lot of cases I think people of that nature tend to have more disposable income. On the other side of the coin we are also geeks, and as such, the collection of high end electronics is part of our nature.

I don''t think so, a lot of us are in the high-tech industry which, still after the last couple years, commands higher-than-average salaries. That said, if this were a pog collector''s forum people would be talking about how they just spent a fortune on the new Alf pog that came out, etc. Disposble income is what keeps the economy moving. It''s just nice that we have it. And yeah, this demographic is in the ""peak earning years"" as well.

bah! I''m in CT, and I just moved out of a 700 Sq foot house on a 44x80 foot lot to a HUGE 1200 Sq foot house on 3 times the land for a paltry 220K.
All I want is enough land to go riding any time I want. There are NO places to ride in CT other than Thomaston dam. =(

Although the entire northeast is way too overcrowded/overpriced.

"Garrad" wrote:
Is it any good? I am most likely going to end up buying one next year.

the Kia or the Geo?

Ooops. Kia, of course.

That it, I''m moving up north with all of you. About half acre down here runs in the $500k.

"Edwin" wrote:

That it, I''m moving up north with all of you. About half acre down here runs in the $500k.

Ouch, I hope that comes with free Spanish lessons!

Kia, of course

I have had no problems with it so far.

I leased it for 5 years, so the cost was kept low, and since in Canada the warranty is bumber to bumper for 100k. This is the exact term for the lease. I do not think i would have tried a Kia without that kind of warranty.

A couple things to note, It is has 6 cylander engine in it. The engine is very powerful, and has exceptional pick and go for a mini-van. The other factor is that it is extremely heavy. It is made from a whole heck of a lot of steel. This is good in that is has a good safety rating and drives well on snow. The down side, is the thing is a pig on gas. Look up the numbers and it is one of the worst.

My only other complaint is that the factory tires are pretty cheap, they have a high rubber content, and unless they are kept at factory setting for tire pressure, they tend to wear pretty quickly.

I have no problems with the vehicle other that. I have had it about 3 years and so far it is has been exactly what it was advertised to be, a low-end kid hauler. That being said, I am impressed enough with Kia, that I would seriously consider picking up a Kia Sorento when the lease expires. Or I will win the lottery and get a Nissan Murano.

Or I will win the lottery and get a Nissan Murano.

Awesome car...I came very close to getting one instead of my Maxima..

But I''m not an SUV kind of guy...but the ride is very nice..has a unique transmission system that results in a very smooth acceleration.

Awesome car...I came very close to getting one instead of my Maxima..

quit teasing me...

Nice. But I just bought this.

60"" full inches!!!!!!!!

"Edwin" wrote:

That it, I''m moving up north with all of you. About half acre down here runs in the $500k.

You think you''ve got problems? The houses on my street are about a million dollars each - and I don''t any of them. Argh!

I''d take the 60 inch LCD-projection Sony Wega over the plasmas.

I read an article a few months back that declared plasma a dead technology. Seems that there are a bunch of new technologies coming on-line that offer significant advantages over plasma. I gather that the smart money is on next generation projection boxes with DLP chips in them, possibly followed by OLED displays a few years out.

Plasma is still the best on the market and the newer generation screens are rated to last 60k hours. I wouldn''t count them out yet. DLP is a step in the right direction but doesn''t even compare to Plasma quality in my comparisons.

A plasma rifehl in fohty-vatt range.
Uzi nine-millimeetah...

... sorry, thats the first thing that popped up into my head.

"Flux" wrote:

Plasma is still the best on the market and the newer generation screens are rated to last 60k hours. I wouldn''t count them out yet. DLP is a step in the right direction but doesn''t even compare to Plasma quality in my comparisons.

Plasma burn-in is way too scary for me. I don''t want to spend 3-5k on something and then have to worry that my normal use is going to ruin it.

So I decided to get a 50"" Sony LCD rear projector - black bars on the screen for 4:3 source? Health and mana bars on the screen for 14 hours? No worries. Plus it looks friggin great, and unlike the DLPs I looked at, low quality sources look decent as well.

bah! I''m in CT, and I just moved out of a 700 Sq foot house on a 44x80 foot lot to a HUGE 1200 Sq foot house on 3 times the land for a paltry 220K.
All I want is enough land to go riding any time I want. There are NO places to ride in CT other than Thomaston dam. =(

Another nice thing about Brannil''s house ... when the wind is just right you can smell one of the neighbor''s smoking pot. No idea who it was, but it was a definite perk

"Strekos" wrote:

Plasma burn-in is way too scary for me. I don''t want to spend 3-5k on something and then have to worry that my normal use is going to ruin it.

Agreed. At work we bought a number of Plasma screens that sit in the lobby of our buildings across Canada and broacast our internal news and commercials. Granted they were first generation plasmas, but they all suffered very bad burn in and had to be replaced by TFTs within two years. Now it is true that this isn''t exactly ""normal use"", but I think its fairly indicative of the problems that at least the early plasma screens had. I think the newer ones are better for the burn-in problem (just as early projection TVs were prone to it and are less so now), but that was a lot of money out the window.