Woooooo Hooooooo!!

[bdgbill]

After about a year of reading reviews, visiting dozens of Best Buys, Circuit City's, Future Shops and even Sears. After many conflicting articles on AVS forums, Consumer Reports and bunches of other magazines and websites. After living with my pathetic 27" sony for 3 years, I have finally bought a new TV.

It's a 50" Hitachi Plasma (P50H401). The PVRX2 graphics look amazing! I was expecting jagged bumpy text but the menus scale perfectly.

Btw...Circuit City actually dropped their price by $400.00 to price match Sears even though Sears was out of stock. I was seriously impressed.

My girlfriend has given me a week to get the thing mounted on the wall. This is going to be no easy task. I was shocked at the price of the wall mounts - $300.00 to $600.00!

[NI2O]

Congrats on the purchase!

Most stores do "price matching" these days. I'm guessing that they beat the price by 10% ?

So in short you got a free mounting bracket. However, do some shopping around. Yes the retail price at Sears et al is over $300 but take a look at BJ's or CostCo. They are under $100 there. I bought one for our new TV from BJ's for $89.99 and it'll take up to 150LBs. Ebay is your friend here too.

Again, congrats and enjoy the show.

Mark

[dneprrider]

I was shocked at the price of the wall mounts - $300.00 to $600.00!

Check out the prices of wall mounts here

http://stores.ebay.com/PRO-MOUNTS

I bought one here for my 42" plasma and it works great. I love how the TV looks mounted on the wall.

[-Oz-]

more nicely priced wall mounts (and cables): http://www.monoprice.com

[K.S.]

My girlfriend has given me a week to get the thing mounted on the wall. This is going to be no easy task. I was shocked at the price of the wall mounts - $300.00 to $600.00!

according to that pic you've got windows behind that plasma thingy. if you really want to mount it on the glass, prepare for some extra cash expenses for some panzerglass first sorry, couldn't resist
damn WAF. why would anyone want a plasma on a wall mount? that's over 100 lbs :eek:

[bdgbill]

Sears had this TV on their website for 1299.00. The website said it was in stock. I called the closest Sears to me 2 hours before I got there and they said they had it in stock. I rented a van, drove 100 miles, crossed the border into the US and Sears didn't have it. The Best Buy next to Sears had it for 1999.00 but would not price match because Sears was out of stock.

Took the ferry to Vermont, drove another 75 miles, Circuit City had it for 1699.00. I showed them the print out from the sears website and they gave it to me for 1299.00. I was shocked. I did have to endure a very hard sell for cables and upconverting DVD players (they claimed to have one for $39.00?). They actually make the salesperson fill out a questionaire to prove he has tried to upsell you. I had to give him the name of my cable provider, the details of my setup etc. I kind of felt sorry for him.

We did have a short crisis when we dropped into Sams Club. They had the same Hitachi set but at 55" for 1999.00. The girlfriend was ready to go for it just so she didn't have to go to any more stores. I had not seen or heard about this set anywhere else and decided to stick to my research.

Btw... This was the photo that finally convinced the girlfriend to agree to the new set. This is why I have to get it on the wall. Something tells me I'm not getting my deposit back on this apartment

Thanks for the links to the mount sellers, I'll have a look.

[saintjo]

wow $1299 is a GREAT price for that tv. congrats!

btw, amazon has the Peerless ST650P Tilting Wall Mount for $75 with free shipping

fyi, this is the tv i just got for christmas
Samsung LED DLP 56" and i love it

[taz]

I am with -Oz-. Check out http://www.monoprice.com My LCD is hanging from one of their mounts (under $40) and hasn't fallen off the wall yet (actually it is a pretty sturdy mount).

Taz

[pastro]

Btw... This was the photo that finally convinced the girlfriend to agree to the new set. This is why I have to get it on the wall. Something tells me I'm not getting my deposit back on this apartment

The thing is you would never want the TV up that high. It would be like sitting in the front of the cinema. Does look nice though.

[Deusxmachina]

That pic above the fireplace is nice and all, but where is the stereo receiver, DVD player, HTPC, cable box, etc?