Smart Cookie Dad

I can’t believe this TV cost less than a grand now shipped at B&H. I bought it about a year and half ago for $2500. I remember my brother, a friend and I drove a mini-van to Circuit City to pick up 3 Panasonic 50″ Plasma TVs. The sale went from over $3000 to $2500.  We thought that was the cheapest it could ever get so we all decided to buy. Who knew that 6 months later, the price dropped to about $1500.  Now it’s less $1000.  What the heck.

Panasonic TH-50PX80U VIERA Plasma TV 50″ (49.9″ Diagonal)

Anyway, I love this TV.  The picture quality is just amazing.  I have a lot of friends who got LCDs and when they come over to my place, they always get blown away on how good the picture quality this TV has.  There are also tons of good reviews on avsforum.com.  The SD card slot for picture is not that great though.  You can watch photos but it’s slow.  I am happy with my Xbox 360 with TVersity set up for viewing photos.

I have been researching DTV converter boxes for a while since I still have a couple tube TVs at home. I found a lot of reviews but it’s still very difficult to decide what to get. There are too many choices. I just want to use my $40 coupon to get a box for free, shipped.

I’ve been holding onto my coupons until I read this thread over at fatwallet. There are online vendors that takes your order with just the coupon and ship you a box for free. No credit card is required. The vendor mentioned in the thread is called freetvsignal. I ordered a couple boxes from them with just my coupons. Sweet, isn’t it? They still have free converter boxes as I write this post.

I’m not going into detail into why I need a converter box. Read this to get yourself familiarized with the whole DTV transition in Feb ’09 if you haven’t heard about it yet.