HDTV Almanac - Black Friday: I Was Wrong

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alfredpoor
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HDTV Almanac - Black Friday: I Was Wrong

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If you don’t want to be wrong, ever, just don’t make predictions. A new press release from the market analyst iSupply states that on Black Friday, retailers dropped the prices for LCD HDTVs by a whopping 22%. That’s not the price drop from last year, folks; it’s the drop from the week before. Okay, here’s [...]

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You may have been wrong on the pricing. Yet a hot deal on 32 is nothing to bring home unless price is your only consideration. Basically you are missing the whole experience of the High definition experience . We should educating the Consumers that less than 50 " does not meet visual acruity test and does not involve peripheral vision to achieve the " i am there feel.
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Agreed... to a point

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Yes, you need to buy the right size screen. And yes, most people buy too small. But the key is that size depends on the viewing distance. So a 32" screen is too small if you're sitting six feet from the screen, but it's just right for some distance: probably about four feet or so.

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