The “Break it Down” Blog

Vizio VP505XVT 50″ Plasma TV – King of Value, PC Mag Editor’s Choice

Some quick background, Vizio broke out onto the scene with the most value-minded (read: cheapest) televisions at Costco and eventually other major retailers, servicing the middle to low end crowd with affordible HDTVs that performed OK. Since then Vizio’s business and ability to execute at delivering increasingly better panels, still targeted to the mid-range, have made [...]

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JD Power HDTV Awards

Winners are: Sony BRAVIA: LCD Category Pioneer: Plasma Category Samsung: DLP Category I’d say my additions to that list are: Sharp AQUOS: LCD Category Panasonic: Plasma Category Mitsubishi/Sony: DLP Category Keeping in mind that the JD Power and Associates award is based on usage and user satisfaction ratings as they responded to the survey. So these are good things. Sort of like a [...]

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