Viewsonic N3251W 32" LCD HDTV

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Just keeps falling and falling. Thinking about pulling the trigger. Doesn't seem bad for a secondary bedroom tv.

i'm with ya...what's a couple hundred bucks right?!

The price seems good. Anyone have any reviews on this? Is it any good? As far as cheaper goes, can it get any cheaper?

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OD in my experience has been a pretty good place to buy. Contrarily, this TV is also available for a tempting price at buy/dot/com and they will not accept a return on this TV for any reason, even if defective. You have to deal directly with the manufacturer for EVERYTHING, which (like me) may leave you with a brand new TV with a problem that causes you to have to send it away for repair the day after you get it because they wash all hands of you after the sale.

So dealing locally with OD on this TV is a good thing.

Another benefit from buying from OD is that other retailers, such as buy/dot/com, state that you should thoroughly inspect the box and not accept it if there's any sign of damage, because once you do it's no longer their responsibility to support you. But not every defect is visible as cardboard shipping box damage. Manufacturing defects occur with no physical signs of shipping damage, and apparently they don't get that. So dealing locally with OD is a good thing because they don't have such awful not-customer-friendly policies.

BUT... Regardless of where you buy it, this TV was rated at the bottom of the heap by Consumer Reports, which is consistent with the quality problem that I have experienced. Maybe they make good computer monitors, but their TV's are priced like this beacause they're just plain awful.

Yes, prices are falling, spend your money on another falling-price tv from another manufacturer, but make sure whatever you buy you get it from somewhere you can actually deal with and understand -- like OD -- because buy/dot/com's thick-accented off-shore I'm-only-authorized-to-read-from-a-script-and-not-actually-help-you customer support is a complete joke.

And you can get a good deal on other TV's, even locally at Costco or Sam's Club, where you can actually make a return if something's wrong with it, or even if you don't like it.

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Poor horndoggy got filtered right into pigshit LOL... however, for those of you like me who are horndoggy trainwreck fans like me, you can go directly to the BB forum and read his observations unfiltered...

#7, the only question is: why, as in why would anyone want or need to? Anyone who gets filtered at an essentially unmoderated site pretty much proves his own lameness. Now, if your motivation is to simply laugh at him for his lack of immaturity, I guess I could understand that, once. But he's a one-trick-pony. How many times can you laugh at the same joke, even when the joke is really the joke teller? Just let him get discouraged. He'll eventually go away.


Now, to the actual subject at hand, this TV. Here's a CNET Editorial Review blurb from last July:

With standard-def sources via S-Video and component-video, the N3251W turned in a mediocre performance, smoothing jagged edges well and engaging 2:3 pull-down detection relatively quickly, but also doing nothing to clean up noisy sources. While component-video was sharp enough, we also noticed some softness via S-Video; the ViewSonic could not resolve every line of horizontal resolution from an S-Video DVD source.

Overall, the ViewSonic N3251W's image quality is merely good, as is that of its ViewSonic stablemate, but they both outclass many similarly priced budget LCDs available today. Its paucity of analog inputs probably won't be a problem for most users, and to get better picture quality with dark scenes, you'll likely need to pay significantly more.

Full review here: http://reviews.cnet.com/ViewSonic_N3251W/4505-6482_7-31954757.html

You can price these bad boys as low and offer all the rebates in the world if you don't have any in stock. Have found this to be true with other makes and model that OD carries.Maybe they should stick with Office Supplies and leave the electronics to BB and CC

I just bought it, tried it out for 7 days. Total POS. Locks up and you have to pull the plug to reboot. After fighting with MacMall they accepted the product. Do not, I repeat do not buy this. Theres a problem with it and it should not even be sold. I think they hope you pass the 15 days and your stuck with a broken one. The reviews on buy.com are false. I submitted a low scoring one and it does not show up at all. I've had viewsonic before, 2 monitors and had good luck. I will never buy Viewsonic again. What a total dissapointment.

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