JD Power and Associates has released the findings of their 2007 Large Screen HDTV Usage and Satisfaction Survey, and there are some very familiar names in the winners of the three categories. As judged on overall satisfaction, picture and sound performance, ease of use, features and styling, the HDTVs were then divided into 37- to 49-inch, 50- to 65-inch and rear projection 50- 72-inch ranges. Sony's
BRAVIA LCD line took the smaller category with a five out of five rating in every area, but lost out to
Pioneer's plasmas when competition went over 50-inches. Samsung's DLPs won the rear projection award, despite having a lower picture and sound rating than Sony, JVC, and Toshiba. Take a look at the overall results and then let us know how you think your HDTV measures up.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
David LaCagnina @ Oct 10th 2007 2:29PM
Survey of end-users? Who cares what the ignorant masses think?
MaShoKaSh @ Oct 10th 2007 3:15PM
Bravia?
Are they serious?
bob @ Oct 10th 2007 4:57PM
XBR maybe, but not regular bravia's
Pioneer is top dog
Darkest Daze @ Oct 10th 2007 8:55PM
The fact that Sharp Aquos isn't on there makes me wonder the actual credibility of this. It sounds like they went around and polled 100 Best Buy salesmen and this is what came from it.
beanspants @ Oct 10th 2007 11:46PM
i don't see how they weighted the 4 categories, but from what i know of the silliness of JD Power car surveys, if customers like the black case better than silver, then that will put a tv with a better picture and a black case below one with worse picture and silver case.
Also what are 'features'? Number of Inputs? If they built-in pong, would that increase the 'features' scores?
Oh yeah, the numbers don't add up right, so there must be some brands not mentioned.
beanspants @ Oct 10th 2007 11:47PM
that's backwards. replace silver with black in the 2nd sentence.
Ryan @ Oct 12th 2007 2:29PM
Did some of you guys fail to notice that the award wasn't for "Highest Pixel rating" or "White to black speed" or "Jason's favorite TV" and is instead for highest customer satisfaction, picture and sound, ease of use, features and styling? I don't know if we missed that part. It's an overall generalization. It doesn't say "These are the clear cut best TVs available, hands down, no question, and if you buy or have bought something else you must have hit your head." Basically that means they are the higher end of average TVs. That's all it means. Chill a bit.