Phaedrus68
Established Member
Hi,
EDIT: This post was made when £ / € were almost at parity.
When I started looking back in June 08 at buying some AV eqiupment, I quickly realised that good products could be bought for great prices.
I put my eye on Panasonic's 50PZ80 pretty early on, and have watched its price plummet in these 6 short months from around €1600 delivered from the UK to Dublin (Dublin-based sellers were then, and still are now, asking €2200 - don't get me started), to €1000 today, collected from Richersounds in Belfast.
Overall, where it first looked like my total spend would certainly end up well onto the nasty side of €5000, between price drops, the currency situation, research & price hunting, my overall spend now looks like it'll be well under €4000, possibly closer to €3500.
So I'm now wondering if an alternative 50" might best the 50PZ80 for maybe €200 - €300 (close as dammit to £200 - £300) more?
See my sig for the sources and AVR/speakers I'll be mating the TV with - I reckon it'll be a pretty well-balanced grouping of products, from market-position and equivalence-in-performance perspectives, but I won't ignore comments.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not keen to spend the extra: I've been, and still am, very intent on getting my overall spend as low as possible, but this will be my big AV set-up to last till the kids have flown (youngest is 3 ), so that bit extra might be okay, but only if it bought me a significantly better TV than the 50PZ80.
My own thoughts are to stick with the 50PZ80 and enjoy a smidge more peace at home for saving that little bit extra, but I'd be really interested in what you guy's thoughts are.
Thanks,
Mark
EDIT: This post was made when £ / € were almost at parity.
When I started looking back in June 08 at buying some AV eqiupment, I quickly realised that good products could be bought for great prices.
I put my eye on Panasonic's 50PZ80 pretty early on, and have watched its price plummet in these 6 short months from around €1600 delivered from the UK to Dublin (Dublin-based sellers were then, and still are now, asking €2200 - don't get me started), to €1000 today, collected from Richersounds in Belfast.
Overall, where it first looked like my total spend would certainly end up well onto the nasty side of €5000, between price drops, the currency situation, research & price hunting, my overall spend now looks like it'll be well under €4000, possibly closer to €3500.
So I'm now wondering if an alternative 50" might best the 50PZ80 for maybe €200 - €300 (close as dammit to £200 - £300) more?
See my sig for the sources and AVR/speakers I'll be mating the TV with - I reckon it'll be a pretty well-balanced grouping of products, from market-position and equivalence-in-performance perspectives, but I won't ignore comments.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not keen to spend the extra: I've been, and still am, very intent on getting my overall spend as low as possible, but this will be my big AV set-up to last till the kids have flown (youngest is 3 ), so that bit extra might be okay, but only if it bought me a significantly better TV than the 50PZ80.
My own thoughts are to stick with the 50PZ80 and enjoy a smidge more peace at home for saving that little bit extra, but I'd be really interested in what you guy's thoughts are.
Thanks,
Mark
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