Which of course ALSO applies to all our competitors too....
That quote doesn't fill me with confidence dave? It's as if your agreeing with it and therefore validating it.
I agree LG we're sneaky with the "1 model to a specific store" routine as it stopped direct competition and price matching etc for the customer. This year, well see... Ive gone cold now though, I'm not as active in here any more, I think this year LG will try and rinse us dry for what is essentailly old tech before OLED takes and crystal LCD take off at the end of the year and forthcoming years.
Instead of watching our pc monitor and waiting on a vapour ware LM960v we are now sitting watching a cheap 3D tv (lg panel) via tesco which cost us literally a few quid after club card vouchers... And to be honest... Totally honest... All ******** aside. For what it cost, we're now gonna make do with it as its honestly not that bad, its better than the active LGPZ550 plasma we had and it cost £1120 less
It's essentially a freebie, so were gonna wait and see how it goes with OLED as I'm bored with all this now, the general concept of forplay is to excite us, your doing a "duke nuke forever" instead of a ten minute playboy channel preview
So LG just lost the sale of 1 LM960V here today, and they lost one last week or so to a sammy d7000 ... I assume lurkers are getting bored too (many folk impulse buy) and with no news, no price, no features etc it's all still vapourware like the 980T was until its actually relased.
Remember the 980T was due to launch march 2011.... LG led everyone up the garden path, made those buyers wait, (read the thread) then postponed the realise month after month after month until about October when they eventually relased it and then immediately discontinued it
many of those users are still waiting 1 year on as they then had to wait for the 2012 models after lg strung them along for so long.
I'll buy a tv later in the year or in a few year time, we got a 50" 3D tv for
Pretty much free via tesco (using club card vouchers and paid about £80 cash) and it'll tide us over until OLED or apple tv or until the prices are reduced again later in the year or at Xmas 2012 or 2013 or whenever...
LG had my interest, but never held my Interest long enough, and they lost a sale.. No big deal it's only 1 ... But others may have lost interest too...
For what it's worth, these cheap no brand tvs with LG panels are actually really quite good, they have good uniformity and as most of us disable all the features of trumotion, dynamic contrast, dynamic colour, super resolution etc these are exactly that, LG panel with all the useless software disabled.
I calibrated using my usual discs and the results are no worse than my plasma was... 3D is fine, it does all we need and as we watch very little anyway it works fine... Plus no lag and hooked up to a htpc so smart is not required
We've now got £2000 spare and are going either have a hol or pop it toward an OLED in 2013