Best Buy USA Shopping Experience
Over in the US for Band Pro camera forum (more blogging on this later today) and took time to look around the local Best Buy store for HDTV products. Firstly the presentation of HD made Comet look good. There was a wall of HDTV with various very bad content on including DirecTV HD content and some SD/HD split demonstrations.
The one thing that hit us wasn't really to do with HD at all, as we walked nearer the massive wall of HDTVs there was a wall of heat coming from them as if a small one bar fire was on. It's only when you get this idea of the heat that you realise what a problem these sets are going to cause environmentally...
Anyway initial reaction was that prices over here are still high, for instance a Sony Bravia XBR 1080 set was still over $3300, a new Sharp Aquos 46in 1080 set was more than $4,000.
But the real price difference surprise was the new Samsung Bluray BD-P1000 player. Off the shelf here was $799, where in the UK it is £999!!
Tomorrow I will note down some more models/prices.
The one thing that hit us wasn't really to do with HD at all, as we walked nearer the massive wall of HDTVs there was a wall of heat coming from them as if a small one bar fire was on. It's only when you get this idea of the heat that you realise what a problem these sets are going to cause environmentally...
Anyway initial reaction was that prices over here are still high, for instance a Sony Bravia XBR 1080 set was still over $3300, a new Sharp Aquos 46in 1080 set was more than $4,000.
But the real price difference surprise was the new Samsung Bluray BD-P1000 player. Off the shelf here was $799, where in the UK it is £999!!
Tomorrow I will note down some more models/prices.
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