I'm in the market to buy a television & need assistance.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Antenna's produce better and less compressed HD

^purist

[Wingspan]

it's actually true. especially NBC and FOX, their HD over air signals are a lot better than the cable HD. at least in philly it is.

[Seabiscuit36]

Antenna's produce better and less compressed HD

^purist

Im too lazy to install an antenna on my house so i just Direct tv's compressed picture

[mussa]

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11182949&whse=BC&Ne=4000000&N=4001382&Mo=21&pos=1&No=4&Nr=P_CatalogName:BC&cat=3316&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDesc1&Sp=C&ec=&topnav=

this looks like a good deal, any thoughts?

[Sgt PSN]

I think you should by me one.   

[Seabiscuit36]

looks good Mussa, Costco is the best place to buy TV's because you can return them at any time if you tv is farged up

[mussa]

i was just at costco looking to see if they had the same deal there, and negative. i went to tweeter, circuit city and costco, this is the best deal i found.

[mussa]

hmm a friend said wait til nxt year, because laser tv's should be released by then and they are going to push the price of high end lcd's down.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/laser-tv-technology-plasma-and-lcd-killer-206426.php

damnit, my tv's pretty bad now. i might just buy a 780p now for cheap to hold me over...

[Cerevant]

HD over the air is probably better quality, HD over cable/satellite is more reliable.

Neither is relevant to my point: you will not be able to buy something off the shelf that will record HD from cable or satellite - the media companies are too worried about you recording that PPV and sticking it on Bittorrent.

If you want to record HD off of cable or satellite, you have two options:
* get a DVR from the company
* (cable only) PCs are coming out shortly that have integrated cable card support.  These will be highly locked down Windows Vista computers with TPM support that will be as bad or worse for restricting how you use your recording as the DVRs are.

Manufacturers of the CableCard hardware have made it clear that the CC tuners will only be available to OEMs who create locked down systems.

[Wingspan]

HD over the air is probably better quality, HD over cable/satellite is more reliable.

Neither is relevant to my point: you will not be able to buy something off the shelf that will record HD from cable or satellite - the media companies are too worried about you recording that PPV and sticking it on Bittorrent.

If you want to record HD off of cable or satellite, you have two options:
* get a DVR from the company
* (cable only) PCs are coming out shortly that have integrated cable card support.  These will be highly locked down Windows Vista computers with TPM support that will be as bad or worse for restricting how you use your recording as the DVRs are.

Manufacturers of the CableCard hardware have made it clear that the CC tuners will only be available to OEMs who create locked down systems.

I think the HD Tivo would completely disagree with you.

[phattymatty]

looks good Mussa, Costco is the best place to buy TV's because you can return them at any time if you tv is farged up

costco is great for electronics, thats where we just got our new tv.  but...they are in the process of changing their retun policy to 90 days because too many people were abusing it.  keeping a tv for the whole football season then taking it back.  i know some stores have already implemented the new policy, but i think it's on a store to store basis.

[Cerevant]

Let me correct:

you will not be able to buy something off the shelf that plugs into your computer and will record HD from cable or satellite

Namely, the USB device that started this conversation.  Anything that can record HD will be so laden with DRM that you will have to ask permission to go pee while the commercials are on.

[Wingspan]

Let me correct:

you will not be able to buy something off the shelf that plugs into your computer and will record HD from cable or satellite

Namely, the USB device that started this conversation.  Anything that can record HD will be so laden with DRM that you will have to ask permission to go pee while the commercials are on.

Tivo connects to a PC or Mac in about 10 seconds, with software provided by Tivo.

[Seabiscuit36]

Later this year http://www.replaytv.com/default.aspwill be offering the abilty to record HD to your computer acting as a DVR

[mussa]

looks good Mussa, Costco is the best place to buy TV's because you can return them at any time if you tv is farged up

costco is great for electronics, thats where we just got our new tv.  but...they are in the process of changing their retun policy to 90 days because too many people were abusing it.  keeping a tv for the whole football season then taking it back.  i know some stores have already implemented the new policy, but i think it's on a store to store basis.

the one near me is this advertising 90 day day, 3 yr warranty. phatty, how do you like your TV? I'm thinking of getting the same one you got now. Any regrets, also how long did it take for you to get it?