Reasonable said:
Right now I'm buying mid-range, which for me would be Samsung or maybe LG, who I feel have improved a lot in recent years. I tend to lean towards Panasonic at the higher end and prefer them overall. Sony I find a shade better than Samsung and LG for image towards the higher end of the Sony range but I find Sony to feel pricing relative to the specifications. So I'd probably only get a Sony TV if I found a specific deal that made it more appealing than the other options. I think Sony advertise and push their TVs harder than Panasonic do, hence the order of the marketshare isn't really that much of a surprise to me as it's actually in line with how I view the price/marketing/image of the various vendors. |
I own a high end Sony Bravia X series, does that make be like someone you should look up to? I think it does. Theres no shame in looking up to a TV owner with a better TV. We are consumers after all, isn't that our mission? To continually upgrade our TVs so that we can claim they are better than everyone else we know?
You know what the funny thing is with TVs? The technology is moving so fast that in some ways its better to buy a 'cheap' TV more often than to buy a top end TV for more and sit on it for 5 years. In the space of that 5 years you could buy a cheap TV then replace it once more with something better than the LCD you already had which will also be better than the LCD you would have bought anyway and as a bonus you'd have a spare set for the bedroom / kids and you would have ended up paying less for both than you did for the one. I can get 4 TVs which are better than the one I own for the price I paid at the time.
Tease.
