Thread: Best time to buy tv in next 3 months?

Black Friday
Sometime in Dec
Superbowl

?



The 55" 8500 I want is just a tad high for me now, so I'm deal watching, plus I won't have a house from Thanksgiving to Feb 1, so there is no rush

I've generally been a Black Friday or impulse buyer!

TIA

Probably around Superbowl time.

S~

Yea. I agree.

Higher end HDTV's MOST of the time will not be brought down in price due to the holidays.

Yeah, thats what I was wondering.

I see a discount on B Friday, but prob nothing big. Then once they get past the 30 day mark and after Christmas, should see some drops. Works out good with my time frame anyways. If I buy it early, itll just sit in the box, but i did not wanna miss a good opportunity.

I gotta think the price of $4500 wont hold long though.

Will be my first big LCD, so it's gonna be an experience.

I see that Panny bought some of Pioneer technology. CES is just around the corner (Janurary).

I am sure the Sammy will drop by then and it will give you a glimpse for 2010. I'm not sure if Panasonic will attend to show their new line or not. Seems they did their own deal later in the year.

I bought my Samsung 52a650 about a month after release and got around $300 back from Amazon with the 30 day price drop (they have since stopped the price drop).

They are speculating the next gen of Panny will have some PIO stuff, but after laboring over it and plasma vs lcd, I just think the 8500 is the one to have, even if I catch it right before the new stuff comes out. It already has Kuro blacks (according to Cnet) and the AMP system is second to none. The Plasmas 96hz features raise black levels and still shows flicker. Then there is the weight.

Prices tend to dip just after Thanksgiving. If there is a black Friday sale on what you want it will probably be the best price until superbowl time. Super Bowl is after CES. At CES all the new models are introduced. The new models will not really start arriving until March+, so the superbowl sales allow them to close out all the old models.

And right after the Superbowl, they should be seriously motivated to sell inventory.

Thanks guys. I think Superbowl will be my buy time, it oughta be well off that steep price it has now.