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Emaline:
Sorry, I dropped the ball on posting that link, but since I'm also on the hunt, I'll be sure to send you anything I find. Have you tried http://slickdeals.net/ or http://www.logicbuy.com/ ? Both have pretty good deals on tvs regularly.

As for brands, my boyfriend seconds Samsung, and Sharp, and also says LG,

Scandanavian War Machine:
It's done. I went to Costco and they had a 37" Vizio for $629.

I set it up and it's awesome. I'm actually glad I got a 37 instead of a 40 or 42 because that would have been way too big. 37 is pretty much perfect for my tv viewing area.

Naturally, the first thing I did was watch The Dark Knight on BluRay. It was magical.

Ikrik:
I picked up a 40 inch Sony Bravia for 1000 bucks near Christmas.  It makes me so ridiculously happy that it almost hurts. I used to have a 23 inch RCA that I picked up from Walmart.  That thing lasted me just a little over a year and I could not be happier with my upgrade. 

Alex C:
I don't feel bad about somehow missing this thread considering that you got a Vizio-- I'm pretty high on those things, especially for the cost. A lot of Vizios have menus and remotes that are ugly as sin, but those menus usually make up for it by being dead easy to use, and really, who the hell gives a shit about how the menus look beyond initial setup? Half the people I know just get a DVR and use the remote that comes with that anyway, so the ugly clicker thing is hardly a big deal either. The pictures are fine, the units are cheap and last I heard their Consumer Reports surveys indicate they have around a failure rate in line that of with Sharp & Samsung, which are both pretty damn reliable brands.

Honestly, as long as you stay away from Mitsubishi and maybe Westinghouse, you'll probably be pretty alright. Mitsubishi in particular has been shitting out high-failure rate clunkers the last couple of years, which is too bad because they actually used to put out some really nice televisions, even if you did often have to go to a slightly more old-school tv and appliance store to find them.

clockworkjames:
Sony always have a slightly darker but alot richer picture colour wise. I am a sucker for samsung, LG are also good good panels.

The only thing I will say is go and actually see them compared in a shop, see what one you like the look of for the picture it gives. I never liked sharp :/

When I sold people TV's for a living I had more people walk out the shop because I was so brutally honest about the TV quality of some "goodmans" tv over a worthwhile TV to get purely because I would not sell someone something I would not be happy with in their situation. I didn't give a fuck abut my sales figures.

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