Board 8 > New TV bought.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Not sure if anyone is still interested in talking about this or even remembers the topic from like 2 weeks ago. I've still been using my TV with the dumb blue lines while I was sitting indecisive about my purchase.

After some thinking, I'd settled pretty hard on getting a 55". My current TV Is 50", I had room for bigger, but 65" I felt would be too big. At the price points, 50" again never seemed particularly reasonable. Loss of screen space for not much value.

I had an obvious lean at the start:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084JH43DJ/ref=twister_B089DHF2XD

At about $500, it seemed reasonable. I was ready to make the purchase, but then, partly the cheapskate in me got the better of me. "This isn't a sale price, this is the regular retail price". I wasn't getting value here, I was just getting what it was worth. So I decided to sit on it. My initial thought was, sit and wait for a sale. So I did.

But waiting left me more time to research televisions. Amazon caught my eye with a woot deal email, $750 for a Q70, this is one of the middle end QLED's from Samsung, I was tempted, but it was also refurbished. At this point, it dawned on me perhaps I could get a refurbished higher end TV. This seemed good, but often these have cosmetic damage, and their best actually bought at a physical store to make sure their isn't any mumbo jumbo. I'm not willing to gamble here, so I hesitate a bit, though the prices seem tempting.

Research soon reveals that with Samsung, last years models typically outdo the current generation except on the upper end. Amazon tempted me, and now my budget expanded a bit as I had dreams of a slightly more feature rich TV. My search for a sale kept me patient, but I also now had my eye on a new prize, 2019 Samsung TV's

Now, I don't like Wal-Mart, but they did make positive news with the mask push, so I gave them a browse. What do I see but a 2019 Q60 on a big sale.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/804051465

This is still their low end model from last year, but features ripped completely from the 2020 model are still present(120 Native refresh vs 60, this was a big draw to me). At $650, its priced down from a usual $900 price tag. That was the kind of value I was looking for. Just $150 more than I was intending to spend in the first place. I could budget that(Disneyland being closed indefinitely is saving me a lot of money). So I pulled the trigger. TV should be here Monday.

Side note the 65" at $800 is also a good deal, but I had long decided I definitely wasn't in the market for a TV that size.

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don't know if this is actually true or just some walmart slander, but I once heard that walmart models of TVs you can find elsewhere often will have a slightly different serial number and worse manufacturer warranty because they are made with inferior parts and don't last as long, but they're cheaper and you can't tell the difference in quality

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ZenOfThunder posted...

don't know if this is actually true or just some walmart slander,

This sounds like wal-mart slander, apparently they even have some of the better refurbished models out there as well.

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Also that can be partially true for certain models at all of the bigger stores.

But I double checked the model number to make sure this thing was exactly what I thought it was.

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oh cool my TV shipped it should in fact get here tomorrow.

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Hmm...Walmart says this arrives tomorrow.

FedEx tracking says arrives by Tuesday.

I'm going to give FedEx the nod on this one.

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That said, it is literally traveling like 30 minutes. So that is a little disappointing.

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I remember

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Im still using a Black Friday tv from Walmart in my bedroom 5 years later with no issues.

Its time for it to go, but not because it broke

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masterplum posted...

Im still using a Black Friday tv from Walmart in my bedroom 5 years later with no issues.

Its time for it to go, but not because it broke

Got a 50" Emerson in the house that cost like $129 or something from a black friday sale forever back. Still works fine.

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I'm still rocking a 720p tv from 2007. I refuse to get rid of it unless it dies.

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shane15 posted...

I'm still rocking a 720p tv from 2007. I refuse to get rid of it unless it dies.

Our last 32" from those days died in October last year.

It was heavier than our 65" here.

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red13n posted...

Not sure if anyone is still interested in talking about this or even remembers the topic from like 2 weeks ago. I've still been using my TV with the dumb blue lines while I was sitting indecisive about my purchase.

After some thinking, I'd settled pretty hard on getting a 55". My current TV Is 50", I had room for bigger, but 65" I felt would be too big. At the price points, 50" again never seemed particularly reasonable. Loss of screen space for not much value.

I had an obvious lean at the start:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084JH43DJ/ref=twister_B089DHF2XD

At about $500, it seemed reasonable. I was ready to make the purchase, but then, partly the cheapskate in me got the better of me. "This isn't a sale price, this is the regular retail price". I wasn't getting value here, I was just getting what it was worth. So I decided to sit on it. My initial thought was, sit and wait for a sale. So I did.

But waiting left me more time to research televisions. Amazon caught my eye with a woot deal email, $750 for a Q70, this is one of the middle end QLED's from Samsung, I was tempted, but it was also refurbished. At this point, it dawned on me perhaps I could get a refurbished higher end TV. This seemed good, but often these have cosmetic damage, and their best actually bought at a physical store to make sure their isn't any mumbo jumbo. I'm not willing to gamble here, so I hesitate a bit, though the prices seem tempting.

Research soon reveals that with Samsung, last years models typically outdo the current generation except on the upper end. Amazon tempted me, and now my budget expanded a bit as I had dreams of a slightly more feature rich TV. My search for a sale kept me patient, but I also now had my eye on a new prize, 2019 Samsung TV's

Now, I don't like Wal-Mart, but they did make positive news with the mask push, so I gave them a browse. What do I see but a 2019 Q60 on a big sale.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/seort/804051465

This is still their low end model from last year, but features ripped completely from the 2020 model are still present(120 Native refresh vs 60, this was a big draw to me). At $650, its priced down from a usual $900 price tag. That was the kind of value I was looking for. Just $150 more than I was intending to spend in the first place. I could budget that(Disneyland being closed indefinitely is saving me a lot of money). So I pulled the trigger. TV should be here Monday.

Side note the 65" at $800 is also a good deal, but I had long decided I definitely wasn't in the market for a TV that size.

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q60-q60r-qled

Seems decent with input lag from a gaming perspective.

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red13n posted...

Our last 32" from those days died in October last year.

It was heavier than our 65" here.

Yeah mine is 32" and it's one of the early 'flat' ones. Still pretty chunky.

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Corrik7 posted...

https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/q60-q60r-qled

Seems decent with input lag from a gaming perspective.

Yeah part of my thinking when shopping was how it would perform, not with current gen, but next-gen consoles.

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My TV did the thing where it goes further away before going out for delivery here.

But FedEx now agrees with Wal-Mart that it will be here tomorrow by the end of the day.

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Just $150? Thats about half of my biweekly budget right now.

Well it's not like he buys a new TV biweekly
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I mean, I've been a pretty compulsive saver for most of my adult life. Way way back when I first got a job but still had no real expenses I pretty much spent nothing.

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The response time on this thing really is fantastic.

Response time and HD console gaming has always given me fits.

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Do you mean input lag?

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