Gary M/HD Guru: Your opinion please.
Best highend BR player, Denon 3800BDCI, Pioneer BDP-09FD, or Sony S5000ES.

Best moderate BR player, Panasonic DMP-BD55K, Yamaha BD-S2900, or Sony BDP-S550.

Best Highend.
Best Moderate.

Thanks,
Jack

Sony Bravia Spec’s controversy clarification for Gary. Huge debate at AVSFORUM as to the “W” series being a Ten/Ten Panel that the “Z” & “XBR” have.

The Bravia Matrix Table Spec Sheets neglect listing it as such yet many AVS members insist it is Ten/Ten from informal feedback from some Sony CSR’s. Gary, is there any way for you to confirm this either way since you have tested them. If you can’t then technically how can we confirm the Ten/Ten featureset?

I’ve cross compared 8 bit with ten in the past on budget panels and found the Ten/Ten to be far superior as to defined details and dimension aspects, border definition of PQ and richness of colors. Is the “W” Bravia a Ten/Ten panel?

Thank you!

Im looking for a 52″ lcd sony or samsung but unsure which to go with i heard good thing on the samsung tvs but sonys reviews were not so good what is your opinion. thank you

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Is it worth while to purchase an Hdtv that has a Transmitter base so no cables are viewed? TY

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[...] Word of current and impending HDTV price drops is spreading rapidly. The HDGuru reports, for example, that Sony, Samsung, and Mitsubishi are rolling out MSRP reductions across the board, with some cuts as high as $500 on expensive models like the Sony KDL-52XBR6. Samsung is offering $200 off rear-projection models like the HL61A750, which was already a solid value to begin with. Looking for hot-selling prices last Friday, the Guru found deals like the 42-inch Panasonic TH-42PX80U plasma for $649 (although when we checked Monday it was back up to $729 online–still a great deal). [...]

[...] Word of current and impending HDTV price drops is spreading rapidly. The HDGuru reports, for example, that Sony, Samsung, and Mitsubishi are rolling out MSRP reductions across the board, with some cuts as high as $500 on expensive models like the Sony KDL-52XBR6. Samsung is offering $200 off rear-projection models like the HL61A750, which was already a solid value to begin with. Looking for hot-selling prices last Friday, the Guru found deals like the 42-inch Panasonic TH-42PX80U plasma for $649 (although when we checked Monday it was back up to $729 online–still a great deal). [...]

11/21/08 – bought a Samsung LN46A630 for $1499 at Circuit City. Same set at a CC ‘going out of business’/liquidator was $1599. I paid $100 less and I can return it within 30 days if there’s a problem. I would NOT recommend buying a big-ticket item at a CC which is closing: stay with the stores that are not closing.

Black Friday Sales

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. -Dave Barry ) Happy Holidays!

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Obama is attempting to add another $800 Billion plus “stimulus” package to the $850
Billion to “rescue” the bankers’ subprime mortgages resale market. Growing credit
card debt defaults will further depress the economy, as it is a banker-caused
re-enactment of the same bank procedures that caused the home-mortgage,
reselling-market bankruptcy threats-”rescued” with an increased taxpayer debt of
$850 Million.

Just as with mortgage debt, credit card debt is put into pools that are then resold
to investment houses, other banks and institutional investors. About 45 percent of
the nation’s $900-plus billion in credit card debt has been packaged into these
pools, exposing many companies to the risk of being forced out of business by credit
card debt defaults and write-offs.

Bankers are selling over $400 Billion of subprime credit-card accounts to buyers for
discounted prices (when bankers suffered no money loss by using created-from-nothing
bank credit for credit-card transaction payments). Those buyers are now faced with
increasing default payments that threaten bankruptcies in the bankers’
credit-card-debt resale market. Consumers have been going into default at a stunning
rate.

The percentage of people delinquent on their credit cards is soaring, and credit
card companies are now writing off somewhere near 5 percent of payments. Serious
delinquencies among some of the biggest lenders rose by 50 percent or more in the
value of accounts that were at least 90 days delinquent.

Bankers sold subprime mortgages (”paid” with bank credit created from nothing with a
bookkeeping entry for which they suffered no money loss) for discount prices. The
buyers of discounted subprime mortgages (Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac) were then
bankrupted by defaults, leading to recession. Add another $400 Billion to “rescue”
the bankers subprime’ credit-card-account resale market and the interest payments to
the banker-owned Federal Reserve skyrocket.

The banker-owned, Federal Reserve “Modern Money Management” instructions allow the
fractional reserve practice of creating credit (out of nothing with a bookkeeping
entry) and using it as a means of payment for loan-customer transactions (with no
money loss to the bank). The sellers are “paid” with the created bank credit and the
bank assumes the right to collect the amount of the transactiom from the buyer, plus
interest and fees. The process is clearly documented in the free internet movie,
Zeitgeist Addendum, which reveals how ongoing inflation is caused by policies of the
banker-owned Federal Reserve.

The internet film, “The Money Masters-How the International Bankers Gained Control
of America” documents the history of Central-Bank (Federal Reserve) exploitation and
control of the U.S. economy for banker profit with orchestrated “booms” and “busts”.
The solution is also made clear but has been prevented by banker-owned,
Federal-Reserve control of the majority of bought-and-paid- for congressmen who add
insult to injury with special-interest “earmark” spending of taxpayer money.

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