Small HD at a small price
Looking
for a widescreen LCD HDTV without the wide price tag? Envision offers
some low cost alternatives to the big name and big ticket items. You'll
have to sacrifice some screen real estate and features of course, but
you can still nab a 720p widescreen set for a list price of $699. The A27W221 is a 27-inch widescreen unit with a native res of 1280 x 720. You get a few advanced features like PIP, POP and PBP. That's Pic-in-Pic, Pic-over-Pic, and Pic-by-Pic for the acronym-challenged. At this price-point, you won't get a digital tuner or inputs like DVI or HDMI, but if your HD signal source outputs through component video, you've got an entry level HD set on the cheap.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Christopher Bermingham @ Nov 17th 2005 10:28AM
How about this:
http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail~dpno~567265~Action~Detail.asp
$789.00 for a 32" lcd with hdmi, pip and pop. Ever heard of Soyo? Me neither but it seems like there are a lot of pretty good deals out there if you are willing to take a chance on an "unknown" name.
phez @ Nov 17th 2005 10:48AM
Soyo used to be a big name in computer hardware - specifically for their motherboards.
http://images.google.ca/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-38,GGLG:en&q=soyo%20dragon&sa=N&tab=wi
dman @ Nov 17th 2005 10:50AM
Just bought a Sanyo 23" Widescreen HD-ready with DVI inputs, 594$ plus 50$ for an extended 2 year warranty, very happy picture and they are a well known name brand. I researched alot decided not to go with Soyo, ilo and such unknown name brands as those. But if you can those name brands with extended warranties then why not.
derrick @ Nov 17th 2005 1:34PM
the 26" Magnavox/dvi has been spotted at $699 to $899 720p and is fairly decent
Permanent4 @ Nov 17th 2005 2:44PM
Amazon is selling Samsung's 30" SlimFit HDTV for $699. Granted, it's a tube, but it's a bigger screen with a built-in tuner.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000B66EJO/103-4628994-4130268?v=glance&n=172282&%5Fencoding=UTF8&colid=2QZBTZHWHHAME&coliid=I2PHU0TSV7HDB5&v=glance
freestufftimes.com @ Nov 17th 2005 7:31PM
http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html//602-3358889-2587857?asin=B000B9UX6Q I'd get this 32" its only 899 with this coupon code TCADVJAB
Michael @ Nov 18th 2005 12:39PM
How good does 720p look on a monitor that has a vertical resolution of 768? It seems like it'd have to stretch it slightly, distorting the image a bit.
brett @ Nov 18th 2005 3:46PM
27"? Bah. Why not 100" for $599?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1081956&CatId=1757