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Who's planning on picking up what?

Janelle and I plan to get a nice front-load washer/dryer set but thats about it, nothing exciting or fun.

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A Wii for the kids.

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I have a nice front-load washer & dryer set for sale. :) PM me if interested.... Dang oh I forgot y'all moved to Texas. Oh well.......... :P

Hmmmm.... what to get?........

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Anna and I are gunning for a new tv! Samsung 40" LCD going for about $600 in a few places :D

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me 2! I think im going to bb.

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Go bigger than 40!!

I dont plan on getting anything. Ive been spending too much lately anyway. haha

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I'd like to find a TV of my own (not that my roommate cares if I use his 50" LCD) but I have nowhere to put it. :(

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If I were going to get a new TV, id def look into a new LED style. Think of how long you will keep the TV around, might as well go as big and as nice as you can afford.

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Ive been looking at a 55"+ LCD tv. Not sure if we will actually buy it on black friday, we will be up at my parents, but if walmart or target has good deals we may have to make the trip to grand rapids in the morning.

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No monies here.

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im waiting to get money from some people before i can make plans.

btw, the led tv will not last longer than a lcd, the only difference is the backlight, not how the picture actually comes together

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I might be looking to get a set of 7bolt rods and 7bolt l19's so I can put the 2.4 together for the evo

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The average LCD TV lasts 60-80k hours, which is about 9 years of constant time being turned on. LED TVs are supposed to surpass that. Even then, most people upgrade within that time frame anyway, to something newer and better.

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Man, some(most) of those front-load style washer/dryers are so damn expensive. Do they do your laundry in 5 minutes or come with a maid? The cubic inch load sizes don't seem to be much bigger than an old POS top load washer.

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We have a Kenmore Elite Front load washer and dryer. (came with the house we are renting). They are nice and have lots of buttons and options. I dont know if it really makes a difference My fiance seems to think so. They are High Efficiency, They look nice though. It also makes for a good place for my son to play. ;)

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I might get something to sell on ebay

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The biggest benefit is their energy efficiency and how much gentler they are on clothes. They use about half the electricity and a lot less soap. The Whirlpool pair we like is $900 at Best Buy right now and we're hoping for a few hundred more off for Black Friday.

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Is electricity expensive in Texas? I have seen the energy savings claims, but electricity is so cheap in MN compared to Cali or some states on the east coast that I think it would take me 30 years to make the money back. $900 for a pair isn't bad at all though compared to those ones that are $1000 each. I need a black friday sale on a furnace.

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The only difference is that the back lighting is made of LEDs instead of a mercury vapor based cold cathode fluorescent (CCFL). Some people like the LEDs, some prefer the fluorescent, some don't care. Aside from that the LCD panels themselves are the same.

Regardless of what TV you look at I recommend getting a 120hz one and never look back.

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Price per kw is right around 9-cents here right now, what are you paying? I wish I saved my work from when I figured out how long it would take to cover the difference but it was quick enough to make it worth it in my mind.

*edit*
Decent info: http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/laundry.html

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where are you going to look?? should we have a style meet/shopping day all meet and camp out at bb LOL.seems like 3 or 4 of us want tvs

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Those freak me out.

I'd really like to get a new TV, but hey my old tube is still chugging along for free, it's hard to justify spending the money when I have something that still works for the most part.

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Does the 120hz make a noticeable difference for the average consumer? I've never seen one or compared the two side-by-side.

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For the amount of time we watch TV, id rather not squint. haha Plus HD is the shit.

Compare the amount we spend on cars, to a 600-1000 dollar TV, which you keep for at least 5 years... Id think its very justifiable.

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agreed.

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Northern Tool has a 1/2" drive air impact for free it looks like.

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link or ban!

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another thing with the led's, they are darker compaired to lcd, but give much truer colors. they give better colors because the led's can be turned on or off creating much much more contrast.

led's also use about 40% less electricity than lcd's

another thing with the lcd's, is that if you have a bright spot, mostly white, it tends to be so bright it washes out surrounding colors

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Why are you scared of 120hz?

There is a definite difference between tvs with it and without it. Especially when watching sports or other movement rich content there is much less motion blur. If you go to costco you can look at ones without and ones with and there is a definite difference.

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Hey, does anyone know if Visio is a good brand? I heard about them a while ago but they were really cheap and i wasnt sure the quality.

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Never mind, someone entered the info on bfads.net wrong. It's $14.99 according to the ad scan. :rolleyes:

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http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_1...=Y&origin=prod

want.... 16.99 doorbuster at sears.

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The lack of any motion blur is what messes with my head. It feels like you're watching everything through a home video camcorder. Not scared of it, it's just trippy. I'm sure I'd get used to it pretty quick.

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well i just bought brakes same price as a tv but needed more so...might be out..

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Had to comment the Sig...

Based on your avatar are you sure you dont munch carpet.

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There is a very noticeable difference when watching action movies or stuff on TV like sports and racing, anything with lots of moving around. It's just smoother. Ultimate Electronics has/had a display showing the two side by side and it was pretty obvious.
The cheaper brands have definitely closed the gap over the past year or two, especially since there are only like two or three LCD manufacturers in the world, but I'd still take a Samsung/Sharp/Sony/Mitsubusi over a Vizio/Haier/Philips if I had a choice. Unless you're a crazy technophile/audiophile you will be just fine with one of the cheaper TVs as long as it has all of the options YOU want YOUR TV to have.

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The last furnace we installed was a high efficiency unit we got for $350 off craigslist. It was a few years old from a new consrtuction home and we installed it ourselves. I would look for a slightly used unit and save some money. If you won't be going high efficiency, you might as well just buy new.

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I found something that would be really cool that most of the car guys would like. my buddy works for BBC and has a Spare Stig Uniform
http://www.evo123.net/showthread.php?t=520

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My work decided to go green and bought LED laptops for us this year. Their main reasoning is because they use less electricity. The batteries last longer than our previous computers, but I don't notice any major differences. Looking at my screen right now, the graphics are fine. The only difference in picture quality I notice is if I try to watch a video clip or movie full screen. The picture quality on this computer is crap compared to our previous ones with the lcd screens. It is definately a noticable difference in full screen clips. I am not sure if the picture quality is better in the TVs than it is on laptops, but I would definately look at the picture quality before buying one.

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Its like MattD Stated earlier, LED is the backlighting, not the actual pixels. your new laptop just has LED Backlighting rather than cold cathod. Its more energy efficient, and can be made thinner. Hence why the new LED Tvs are like 2 inches thick. but your screen is still an LCD.
If your company is really looking to become energy efficient, tell them to replace all of their light bulbs and recessed lighting with Permlight LED products. I used to work for this company and the energy savings is awesome, and yet it produces the same if not more light than a regular bulb.