TCL 55-Inch 1080p 240Hz LED HDTV $699 FS (Amazon and Costco)

Well based off the other one thats for sale 'supposedly' these use samsung panels which I never verified.....

One TCL model in the past used a Samsung panel and the same thing gets repeated in every TCL thread. Who knows what panels are actually in the TCL models on sale these holidays...

You have no idea what you are talking about...Dynamic Contract Ratio means nothing it is the static true contrast ratio that matters...and at the end of the day, that is probably one of the most important features of a TV...not some crap dynamic ratios with silly 50000000:1 crap...why do you think most manufactures do not advertise the true contrast ratios for LCD/LED TVs...because they are awful...stick to plasma for the best picture quality.

Here is a good article on contrast...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_1...es-to-you/

Look like they are desperately trying to sold out all these TCL. This is like the 5th TCL on sale since BF.

One TCL model in the past used a Samsung panel and the same thing gets repeated in every TCL thread. Who knows what panels are actually in the TCL models on sale these holidays...

I will let you guys know this week...simply plug in your laptop with HDMI, and you will get the true panel name...(Zenith for example shows as LG display when you plug in through HDMI to your laptop, thus this confirms Zenith Plasma TVs use the LG panels)...

Sounds like bragging to me...
Ignorance is bliss. I need not say more...

not that anyone is asking, but IMO if you keep any piece of electronics for 5 years you don't really belong on slickdeals because things become outdated so fast and once new things come out the value drops fast.
so the best thing to do is try to buy low and sell hi (duh) and just keep upgrading constantly. if you buy at a low price you can usually flip it in 1/2-1 year later for the same price on craigslist. and if you only own it for that period of time it doesnt need to be super long lasting.
if you still have a tv that is 5 years old you might as well sit on it until it does die because the resell value is too low now, kinda like an old car, just drive it into the ground now.
and as for the the "5-year old 40" Samsung 720P 60Hz 8ms", the stats on this are pretty good except 60Hz might be a little low for some movies and sports and 720P might start to be a little low when you get up to 40". but the real problem is the other things. wouldn't surprise me if that tv has as many component inputs as HDMI, and does it have wifi built in so i can relentlessly connect my laptop? then your tv is horribly out of date, and oh yea it weighs like a million pounds in comparison to this tv. picture quality isnt the only thing, and is becoming a stagnent things since 1080P is basically standard on all TVs now, the upgrades are in inputs and features and with LEDs the weight.

You have no idea what you are talking about...Dynamic Contract Ratio means nothing it is the static true contrast ratio that matters...and at the end of the day, that is probably one of the most important features of a TV...not some crap dynamic ratios with silly 50000000:1 crap...why do you think most manufactures do not advertise the true contrast ratios for LCD/LED TVs...because they are awful...stick to plasma for the best picture quality
Here is a good article...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_1...es-to-you/

799 for the Samsung 6000 series LCD is a far better deal. Anyone with two eyeballs, and no macular degeneration can plainly see the difference if you simply point it out. His 5 year old samsung probably matches up pretty evenly TBH. It's true that LCD panels are distributed by only a few companies, they sell different grades of panels. There is a damned good reason an LCD that costs 3x as much costs 3x as much. LCD manufacturing still isn't perfect, and Top grade panels are still not a guarantee. If the certain tolerances aren't met, the manufacturer will sell those lower grade panels to other companies at a huge discount. True, it might be the same panel model, but it probably got rejected by QA because of a failed tolerance test.

Straight from wikipedia:
LCD panels also have defects known as clouding (or less commonly mura), which describes the uneven patches of changes in luminance. It is most visible in dark or black areas of displayed scenes.

These panels will get sold to mass chinese manufacturers.

Video processing is also extremely expensive, companies such as Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, etc etc guard those techniques very closely. It's very easy to save money in a tv's manufacturing cost by buying your tuners off the shelf in bulk from the lowest bidder. I guarantee you top teir companies arent selling their quality video hardware to TCL.

My Samsung was among the top 5 LCD TVs with the best picture quality when I bought it, so yes, it looks better than this TV.

Dynamic Contrast Ratio: 100,000:1
Response Time: 12ms

Need I say more? LOL!

Well I bought one, so quit your bitching and I'll let you know by Friday.

$350 48" 1080p = no brainer... gonna look beautiful right in front of my crapper.