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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Review of The World’s Largest TVs

Have you ever wanted to destroy yourself financially because you were bored? Or walk into your bank and try and take out a mortgage for a television? Yep, me too. Well thanks to our friends over at Clearly-AV, you will know exactly which TV to purchase to most effectively sink you into a blackhole of debt until [...]

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VIZIO Launches Higher End Plasmas – VP605F and VP504F

Since VIZIO has more or less dominated the low-end plasma market they are now moving up into the previously Panasonic and Pioneer-dominated mid-level Plasma market with some new kick-ass announcements from CES. First in the lineup is the VP60, at $2800 this 1080p set with 4 HDMI inputs as well as Silicon Optix HQV Processing is [...]

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Panasonic TH-50PZ700U – Best TV Ever

EngadgetHD is reporting that ConsumerReports recently got their hands on the Panasonic TH-50PZ700U and rated it the best TV ever. I am actually a ConsumerReports subscriber (like $7/year) and logged in to check out what all the hub-bub was about, and sure enough it was their highest rated plasma. Reading through the review it’s actually quite [...]

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