55" 4K $398 Walmart

[CKN]

Originally Posted By: javacontour
I've driven cars that cost less than the $400 TV, I can't imagine spending $3k on a TV.



How much is a Prime (time) movie ticket in Chicago proper these days?

Just trying to put things in to perspective.


Yea-I know you probably don't go to the movies either.

 

[javacontour]

Originally Posted By: CKN
Originally Posted By: javacontour
I've driven cars that cost less than the $400 TV, I can't imagine spending $3k on a TV.



How much is a Prime (time) movie ticket in Chicago proper these days?

Just trying to put things in to perspective.


Yea-I know you probably don't go to the movies either.


I don't know, I live in the 90% or so of the area of IL that is NOT Chicago.

Or at least the 2/3rds that is south of I80.

But, you get the point. Chicago is a very small part of IL. There is much more of IL that is NOT Chicago than there is that is.

 

[nthach]

Originally Posted By: kc8adu
the walmart phillips tv is a funai.
notoriously cheap design and poor reliability esp the power supplies.
i see a bunch of them.seems any power line disturbance blows them up.
no mov on the line input.
multiple 3a diodes in parallel rather than 1 properly sized on a heatsink.
so many design fails.

Philips did end ties with Funai from what I've heard, but they might use them for certain retailers. Sharp had their US-market TVs made by Hisense, but those were garbage compared to the original Japanese designs.

Wal-Mart's Sanyo TVs aren't made by Panasonic/Sanyo proper - they are from a maquiladora in Tijuana or near the Texas/Mexico border as are most TVs.