The site I use for these cross company validations is <a href="http://thewirecutter.com">http://thewirecutter.com</a>/. I bought their recommended 50" a few months back and did the burn-in procedure from AVSforum and haven't looked back. Their current TV recommendations can be found here : <a href="http://thewirecutter.com/leaderboard/tvs/">http://thewirecutter.com/leaderboard/tvs/</a><br>
<br>LUG members have enough technical and analytical skills to check into individual models but this site does a lot of the initial legwork. Their current recommendations are between Panasonic and Samsung but if you do the research you should be able to find something that suits you.<br>
<br>--Brandon<br> <div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Peter Bart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:petertheplumber@att.net" target="_blank">petertheplumber@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Everyone,<br>
I have several Samsung televisions, of which at least one<br>
is suffering from what remarkably sounds like capacitor<br>
failure. But it's not covered under the class action lawsuit<br>
settlement, it's out of warranty and it's our main set. Samsung<br>
said they will be happy to schedule a service call at my expense, or<br>
sell me a new set. I don't remember what I paid for it, so it couldn't<br>
have been that expensive. Otherwise I'd be hot to fix it. It's not a<br>
huge inconvenience, we have a smaller set I can use in the meantime.<br>
What I do want to do is get a new set that's between 30"-40",<br>
obviously not a Samsung. I've heard the new OLED screens are<br>
coming down the pike, and I thought I might pick up an LED set<br>
while the getting's good. I think I want to stay away from the<br>
plasma because of the extra power consumption over and LED/LCD<br>
set. Any thoughts/recommendations/etc anyone?<br>
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--<br>
Best Regards,<br>
<br>
Peter The Plumber<br>
<<a href="mailto:petertheplumber@att.net">petertheplumber@att.net</a>><br>
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