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Surprise! Retailers Use Lighting To Trick You Into Buying Inferior HDTVs
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Ironically, one could use this same test to discover the certifiably insane.
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*clicks brightness up on laptop*
Muahahaha
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HIYOOOOOOO!
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On a different note, I personally wouldn't buy a TV that was showing anything by Tyler Perry, regardless of the (really excuse this pun) "black levels."
Note: I'm not at all racist, the joke just works on so many levels.
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Why do you have a star? "you're" comments are terrible.
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I'm sending you the bill for my prescription.
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"I would think that the store wants to sell all HDTVs"
That right there is the point. In a brightly lit room, all HDTVs look good. In a room with proper lighting people will be more likely to see that the cheap TVs are crap and completely avoid them. There is actually more motivation to sell the cheaper TVs than the more expensive TVs because the mark up is so low on TVs compared to other things that they can sell. Typically, TVs only have a mark up of about 10%. If someone buys a $1200 TV and leaves with only that TV, the store only makes $120 profit. Meanwhile, if someone instead uses that same amount of money to buy $1000 TV, $120 worth of HDMI cables, and an $80 service plan, the store is going to make closer to $250 profit.
While there are people that are going to buy the expensive TV and all of the accessories to go along with it, these are typically going to either be people who
A) have no budget and will buy things based on the price, not the picture
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B) have already done the research and are not going to be motivated by the displays anyways.
For the most part, the displays are only necessary for those who are on a budget; getting those people to spend more of their budget on accessories rather than TVs means more profit for the store.
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"the call on the field stands. monster cable is a rip off."
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When I questioned one of them on this, he said "hey, whatever get's the couch sold."
He sold a couch that day.
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My Vizio VO32LF is a fine display, thank you very much.
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In an article about how big boxers use lighting to sell you TVs with bad blacks I don't think my assertion that Vizio TVs bad picture quality should rule them out as a primary TV is a particularly bad one...in the context of a comment on an article about "inferior HDTV" and black levels, contrast, etc. If it was an article on finding the cheapest HDTV i'd stfu...but seriously it's about how budget TVs aren't as good, and how they TRICK you into buying them..if you know you're getting crap and that's all you need (which is fine, i might be buying one soon) than that's fine, but that's not what the post is about. End of run-on rant.
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I don't know how many times I have suggested to someone to get another brand over a Vizio due to the reliability issues and they get the Vizio instead only to come back a week or two later to exchange it for another TV after it breaks.