What is the difference between $800 and $3000 HDTV's?

Question

I recently bought an LCD HDTV. As I was checking out the picture to all of them, I could tell no difference between the picture on a discount set (Vizio or Olevia, etc) compared to an expensive set (Sharp Aquos or Sony, etc). Why are the expensive sets thousands more? What benefit do they offer?

Answer 1

Quality (over a long period of time,) a brand that can serviced and has parts availability for years to come, a warranty with "no strings attached and local authorized service centers, manufacturer quality control, better performance, rich in features, and so on.

Try having a Vizio or Olevia repaired after the initial warranty has expired. You'll no doubt.be out of luck.

Both the Sony, and to a lesser extant, the Sharp Aquos are worth evey penny that they cost.

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Answer 2

If you can't tell the difference, don't spend the extra money.

Those price differences likely point to different resolutions, contrast ratios, black levels, color accuracy, and other image related specs that are backed up by the components inside the TV... the components in the higher priced models should provide better image processing/scaling.

I paid around 3x the price for my last LCD so that I could get high contrast and a 1920x1080 resolution... if the contrast wasn't an issue and I didn't have high res sources, I'd have gone with a much cheaper set.

Answer 3

Mostly you are paying for the brand name. However, when you were looking and comparing TVs, did you stand straight on, or did you compare views from different angles? If you stand at an angle in the store when looking at the TVs, you will see some difference in certain ones. I noticed that when standing at a sharp angle from the TVs the difference was obvious on some TVs, such as the Vizio, which was much darker looking at an angle than any other TV on display. One of the other things to note is the pixel count of the TV. Is it a 720p or a 1080p. The 1080p TVs will cost more. The plasmas sometimes cost more, depending where you shop. I just bought a 50" Phillips plasma with extended warranty for under $1700. I have a buddy who bought a 42" Sony plasma including surround sound, he paid $2500 for his setup. I'm guessing he paid for the Sony name.

Answer 4

The only thing I can see that others haven't already said was that some of the more expensive TV's do a lot better job at upconverting standered definition signals to a 720p or higher resolution. I doubt we will ever be able to take standered definition and magically in the TV make it high def, it just doesn't work that way. However, in some of the more expensive brands they dont' do to bad of a job. Considering 90% of programing out there is no HD, I would say thats a pretty important feature.

Hope this was helpfull

Answer 5

well, it's really about the brands and where the tvs are made from..
for example, a $4000 Hitachi LCDs are made strictly from Japan in their own factory, not just the screen or whatever, it's every single details that are inside the tv are made from them, so they control the quality pretty good. Just like a Lous Vuitton hand bags, you're not only buying the brand name, it's also the quality and the fact that you're buying the trust from those companies.

Answer 6

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