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Edit: I meant to say be careful talking sensibly about all this because few people will be able to draw the connections you're drawing, and you're liable to get trolled for it.
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Not to be Mister Pessimistic, but I do hope we are all spending money we have and not borrowing from our favorite plastic rectangle manufacturers. It is great to be spending money again, but I would hate for us to re-live the same mistakes. Not that history ever repeats itself, mind you.
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What is better news is that consumer debt actually contracted this year, and not just due to writeoffs by major card companies.
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If the answer is no, then yes this will be a solid positive with no side effects. If the answer is yes, then it depends on what happens to employment over the next several months.
Who knows what will happen? The best economists in the world aren't certain, so anyone commenting here one way or another better keep that in mind as they post their prognostications.
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sorry buddy, but anyone who does stock analysis on the basis of moving averages and chartism is just as stone age as pre-wheel cavemen.
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High-profit, cheaply made, low-intrinsic-utility stuff. In fact, I'll venture to say that today's credit-dependent, Potemkin economy cannot flourish unless people buy junk they don't need. Because all essential demand has been met: nobody wants any more poor-quality crap, more granite countertops at bubble prices, more plasticware.
So they're doing what governments and centeral banks do best: pulling demand forward. Again and again, only now even forward demand had been satisfied. I don't know about you guys, but I regularly throw out broken cheap crappy housewares, plastic this-and-that, cheap particleboard furniture and broken toys, six-month-old unrepairable cheap appliances and I avoid buying this stuff wherever possible.
But it is REAL hard to find good quality anything, even at a high price, anymore: there isn't any profit for the manufacturer in it!
My best furniture? It's SOLID wood, Taiwan cedar or Spruce, refinished by me, which came from the DUMP. From the past.
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I want an HDTV. But I don't want one too big. 40" looks just about right for what I want. I want to be able to watch some movies, TV and play some games. I do want it to be 1080p. Some people say you can't tell the difference, but I honestly can.
I know that as soon as I get one, though, the price will drop. :(
11/18/09
1. Define a max budget
2. Save money so you can pay for the entire TV at once.
3. While saving look into LCD vs Plasma and what TV you actually want.
4. Determine how much space you actually have for a TV, in my case it fits between two bookshelves so the largest I could go, regardless of room size was a 46" TV.
5. Convince the wife a new TV is a good idea.
6. Wait for the a good deal so that you can get the TV you want, but is normally out of your budget.
7. ...
8. PROFIT!!! ...........
oh sorry let's try that again
8. Enjoy new TV after calibrating it!
11/18/09
Point out how big 50" TV is to wife.
Have wife get excited about the prospect of 50" HD porn. (Yes, seriously)
Go buy 50" Plasma so that you can see screen well from, *cough* "All angles."
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Of course, I bought a Samsung pn50b650 Plasma for $935... But, seriously, this would have been helpful!
11/18/09
I live in an apartment, so it's maybe a 20-step walk to my TV. I think I'll hold off on another TV for a while.
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Picture is fantastic, especially considering I got it under $600 shipped. Thanks, Dell!
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#tips
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Really the only drawback I've seen from modern plasmas is they're power hungry compared to modern LCD's. But, you can get a good sized plasma for less than the equivalent LCD as well.
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11/18/09
Back then, I remember recommending lcds to my friends and families. Then lately, I ended up with a plasma (Panny pz800). :P The quality is just too good for the price.
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