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It was a flash sale.. started at 5:00pm, over by 5:10pm.
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TV resolutions are going to be limited to the biggest size TV that most people can fit through the door of their house. I think 1080P on an 80" TV is borderline inadequate for perfect picture quality.... but what is the diagonal size of the average front door? Once we hit that size of TV at the good price break, there won't be much more market for bigger sizes and higher resolutions, outside of rich people.

Before someone says it, projectors need a dark room that not everyone has.
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GORDON wrote:Before someone says it, projectors need a dark room that not everyone has.
I bet there's a solution to that yet to come.

As to TVs, we aren't too many years away from TVs that are sold to you in a poster tube, and that you unroll as part of installation. The sizes of doors won't be an issue.
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Vizio is going poltergeist on me. TV randomly turned on by itself several times before, so I yanked the batteries from the remote to isolate a cause. Caught it red-handed tonight. Also more than a few pixels that are dead, but you only notice when there's enough white in the colours.



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I bough 2 small Samsungs, 32" approximately, for random nooks and crannies. Both have audio vibration problems when turned up over 33%. Bought a Sharp (I think? cant remember) for the new bedroom... sounds perfect. No more Samsung TVs for me.
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My Vizio is still perfect. It has frozen on me once (the hard drive running the software, not a live signal), and they did a bad job with the remote receiver, but the picture is amazing and doubly so when you consider the price.

The future won't just be a rolled up TV, but projectors you hang in the corners of your room and they project a hologram of your show in the center of your room.
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My Vizio still good as well (from Jan 2010).
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Think I got a couple months on my 2-year warranty, so I may see what's up with that.
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I think I want this as my new computer monitor

4k, 43", and only $600. VIZIO M43-C1

Anyone else use a large monitor?
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TheCatt wrote:I think I want this as my new computer monitor

4k, 43", and only $600. VIZIO M43-C1

Anyone else use a large monitor?
VIZIO M43-C1


Mine is a 32 inch, but I've been looking for a low cost 4K. You have me interested.

I wonder how it is with games?
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I wonder how it is with games?


I just read this article a few days ago about 4k monitors. It might be of some interest to you guys.

Looks like the 4k really stresses your video card, now I know Leisher is 3%er so I know you will be good, but still some things to think about.
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Well, I don't care about gaming that much. I could always switch to a 24" or 27" for that if I care about refresh rates/etc, or just stick to my laptop.

For developing, I care about as many (readable) pixels as possible.
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TheCatt wrote:I think I want this as my new computer monitor

4k, 43", and only $600. VIZIO M43-C1

Anyone else use a large monitor?
I went to Walmart today, and found the same monitor. I stood in front of it at the distance I would use for programming. Man it's huge. There was not a huge amount of light issues in the corners. It seemed mostly consistent.
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I can imagine having to turn my head to see stuff at the edges in LoL.
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GORDON wrote:I can imagine having to turn my head to see stuff at the edges in LoL.
For gaming, people seem to love the ultra-widescreens (34"). I'm doing dev work.
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I'm intrigued by it... but I'd like to test drive one first.
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GORDON wrote:I'm intrigued by it... but I'd like to test drive one first.
Yeah, exactly.

I have a 39" 4k monitor at work on my desk (mostly unused) next to my 2x24". We use it for shared work, or demonstrating things in small groups, but the display is too bad for all-day use.
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We decided to finally get a 2nd TV, and not get a lower-mid range one like our current primary TV. It's a big room, so we went for a 75"

Samsung QLED Q80R. We paid under $2k for it.

I'll drop $2k on a laptop without thinking about it, but $2k on a TV seems obscene to me.

The ratings here seemed pretty solid. And OLED was still too expensive, imho.

Our current TV has like 4 dimming areas (vertical), so dark scenes look weird as different parts of the screen have different brightness levels. This one looks a lot better so far.

4k content looks amazing.
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