The ideal cheaply priced HDTV without tuner

[hershon]

Looking forward to your posts. Is the following a good rule of thumb- if I can get an HDTV ready set cheap from Sony, Panasonic, Zeneth, or Mitsubishi (not sure on that one), should I jump in as these sets will give me minimal problems and optimal satisfaction?

The new Tv model usually arrive at store right before Summer (May or June), so you may have passed the time frame to get a large discount on discontinued models.

If you are not in hurry, check out either November or December (I think it is in December) issue of ConsumerReport magazine that is coming out. They usually test big number of TVs on the market and evaluate their picture quality and rank them accordingly.

And I usually post their results in this forum as soon as they are published

[kpzbee]

I just bought an Hitachi RPTV about 3 weeks ago & from what I seen, the new models were just coming out. I picked up last years model at a really good price.

As for quality sets, the order around here (& I agree) is
1 - Hitachi
2 - Toshiba
3 - Mitsubishi
Sony's reputation has gotten pretty bad from what I've read on here & other boards. Nice picture though