NewEgg rules

[cryowizard]

I've been buying computer parts from NewEgg.com for years now but never paid any attention to their electronics store.

And they rule there too, apparently, currently offering a great deal on a Pioneer Kuro 5020FD HDTV plus a free (!) Pioneer BluRay DVD player plus free delivery plus no taxes for the price, basically, of the TV alone on a good day in a good store.

In case you don't know -- Pioneer Kuro series is considered the best TV quality flat screens, with darkest blacks ever (apparently, kuro means black in Japanese). The Kuro 5020 is only surpassed in picture quality by Pioneers's own Kuro Elite series, such as Pro 111FD.

I'm going to go check the TV out at BestBuy near work today. If the picture is indeed as good as what every single review on the net says, I'm taking the newegg deal.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This price should include a blowjob or two.

I bought Panasonic Viera 46" for $1270 (delivered, no taxes) from J&R.
Also plasma. Colors awsome, very deep black.

I'm sure you wouldn't tell the diff between it and kuro (assuming the same source of video signal)

-LT

[cryowizard.livejournal.com]

I hear it does. From Japanese twins ;)

Well, you gotta compare apples to apples, first apple being size. I want a 50" TV, not 46. Comparable Viera costs around $1800 on Amazon. Kuro costs about $2400 on Amazon. So the question is -- is the Kuro worth the extra $600.

Second apple is that you live in NJ, for shipping to which JR doesn't charge tax. Not the case with me. I'd have to pay roughly $200 in taxes and a $75 shipping charge.

Third apple -- they bundle with it a $400 Blu-ray player, which everyone says upconverts standard DVDs very well (something worth considering since BR is not that widespread yet).

Cost is cost, can't get away from that. But no taxes and no shipping charges helps.

Again, have to decide if the picture quality of the Panasonic vs Pioneer is worth the $600. I went to JnR during the week -- the Sony XBR6 is clearly worse picture-wise than Kuro (they are fed by the same shitty source at the store). I didn't look at the Viera but I might stop by again to take another gander...

[(Anonymous)]

Newegg has Viera 50" for $1499 (TH50PZ85U).
The only diff between it and much more expensive version is THX - shit from Lucas film that in my opinion is not worth nowhere near $500 (and you're not going to use it anyway since you're buying kick ass AV, right?)

Anyway, when I was shopping for a flat screen this fall I decided that Kuro was very much overpriced. Went for Viera. So far so good. ;-)

re: upconversion - If you're buying AV with upconversion why do you also need a blue ray with DVD upconversion?

-LT

[cryowizard.livejournal.com]

Just a reflection of choices I have :)

If I get the Onkyo TX-NR906 receiver, I get upconversion of everything coming in over HDMI to 1080p via a chipset that is supposedly better than Faroudja. I also get THX-certified audio processor which none of the similar-priced competitors have, and in the world of surround audio THX certification is king.

I thus wouldn't need those features in a TV set or DVD player, as you correctly pointed out.

However, I am not completely sold on the Onkyo just yet even though the fucking thing is the only choice that does what I need, nothing else can match it for reasonable price, neither Denon nor Sony nor Pioneer.

I'm not saying I have to take that newegg deal. The question is, as it has been before, whether the Kuro's picture quality which every web site and review and personal comment I've seen says is absolutely superb is worth the rather steep price hike from Viera.