Yikes! My TV broke...

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<p>One can be built pretty easily but on retail costs for the materials it would be around $60-$70. It would be an inch and half from the wall. One inch would be a tight fit and not as sturdy. This makes the first one seem pretty cheap. I am sure the materials can be found for less at the contractor price or somewhere other than the Depot. It looks like from the ebay pictures the materials here would be higher quality.</p>
 
<p>Thanks Graph...</p>

<p>When you say the first one seems pretty cheap... do you mean quality or cost wise???</p>

<p>If you look at the shipping and handling... that's where they are sticking the mark up... the price of the unit is in line but shipping is high....</p>

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I think the price is cheap and the quality looks cheap. I could be wrong because you can't really tell from the pictures. It does look like the materials are thinner than what I found. I will look into it some more because I am planning on buying a flat panel sometime in the future and I plan on mounting it on the wall.
 
<p>52" mounted to the wall. I don't know if that's a good idea. And if it's an apartment, I think the landlord might not want that.</p>

<p>But a friend did mount a small TV to the wall. It wasn't that hard. Took him like 20 - 30 minutes. </p>
 
<p>It's an Irvine Company Community townhome... and they leasing office said it was fine as long as the wall is patched when I leave....</p>

<p>As I walk the complex at night most of the units have 46"-52" TV's mounted to the wall... very common here.</p>

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<p>I would be wary. Have it in writing if they say it's okay. What if the "person" you spoke to are no longer with the IAC when your lease is up?</p>

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<p>I bought a 37" 780p Vizio from costco. I absolutely love it, especially for the price. I think they dropped the price from when I bought it, its somewhere around $800 now. </p>

<p>You can spend a couple hundred dollars more to get a nicer bigger set, but me and my husbands thoughts is this is temporary till we buy a new place. When we do this goes into our bedroom and then we buy something really nice.</p>
 
My 47" broke and I got it repaired at an awesome place in irvine, $350 including pick-up and delivery the next Day, they will give you a quote for around $50 (or less I think)....It's called Phoenix TV repair, let me know if you need more details..highly recommended!! (I saved $2K by not buying a new one)
 
halfnote, we just installed a 47" vizio LCD in our office. at $1500 from costco is truly is the best non-sale priced unit on the market right now. at first i was unsure about going with this brand but every installer we had to come give us a quote for the mounting raved about them. the only caveat i was warned about was people often complain the picture is grainy and fuzzy when you dont use a good signal (i.e. standard cable) and believe its a problem with the tv. some higher end LCDs often have features that can correct some of these issues. but with a high quality source, the vizio is as good as anything else. in other words, garbage in and garbage out!





and they're a local company (based in irvine) to boot!
 
<p>I actually don't have cable, (I haven't had cable since I was 13) but I don't think the picture is any more grainy or fuzzy than any other tv. </p>

<p>It really would be hard to say that a nicer high end tv would correct this problem, especially since all the tvs in the show room only display them with a HD feed. Why would you not have cable if you just dropped a few thousand dollars on a really nice tv?</p>
 
that was my point... people will complain about their tv when it could be a number of things affecting their picture. improper lighting, bad cables, settings (in the stores they typically jack the contrast all the way up), or poor source feed. but some folks just have to buy sony because its sony.
 
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