Purchased a TV/PJ recently? Name the place and the price! [Now with added poll]

smokingman · 18-06-2008 9:09am

Projector: Panasonic PT-AE2000
Type: 1080p LCD HDTV
Date Bought: 17th June 2008
Price: gbp £1,349.00 + £69.00 shipping
Bought From: ebay
Retailer Satisfaction: Very happy
Satisfaction: I'll wait for it to be delivered
Accessories: 92" Panoview Grey Wolf 2 Fixed Frame Screen Grey Glass Beaded Gain of 1.8 Model: DF-GWII9092F from cvsmedia.co.uk - 250 euro

I've been waiting to build my cinema room for months and it's just started with the purchase of the above. I'll be building a floating wall to put the screen on and post the results over in the HE DIY forum later on....watch this space..

nenepoos · 24-06-2008 10:46pm

Pioneer plasma Kuro 4280xd

I took the tv and home cinema set deal for 1950 from Alliance Electric

Good knowledgeable service - came and set up the tv in navan and wired everything in the house up to the surround sound thingy.

He was in the house for well over an hour.

and I just got in for the 5 year gaurantee offer - couldnt recomend them enough.

Pretty impressed with the TV. My one year old keeps taking swings at it with the poker though - seems to think its a target or an enemy.

Golfnut · 25-07-2008 1:51pm

Panasonic TH-46PZ81B inc. 5 year warranty

Worked out @ €1,937 inc. delivery from Richer Sounds in Belfast

Am delighted with it, arrived on Monday, includes freesat, IFC, PIP, PAP, and other features I've no doubt yet to master

Set up was simple, had a spare cable to my Sky dish, connected it up and Freesat setup took about 3 minutes

extra-ordinary_ · 08-08-2008 6:17am

Panasonic TH-37PV80 in http://www.allianceelectric.ie/ for €999

Salesman spent an hour with me showing me around on the first visit. He recommended this €999 Plasma over LCD for watching sports. Happy with his service and went back 3 weeks later and did the deal.

grey squirrel · 20-08-2008 2:23pm

SAMSUNG LE32A457C1D 32 Inch HD Ready LCD with 5 year warranty

€565.50 including cost of courier to deop at my door within 24 hrs

www.samsyerman.co.uk

kaimera · 26-08-2008 11:01am

TV: Panasonic TH42PZ80
Type: 42" Plasma
Date Bought: 20080826
Price: €1009.15 [£802.90 incl. 5 year warrenty]
Bought From: http://richersounds.com
Retailer Satisfaction: Trés happy with buying over the phone.
TV Satisfaction: NA yet

Just ordered today along with a pioneer 5.1 home cinema kit.
total came to under 1200e.

Tv is OoS atm but should be in by the end of the week. Estimated delivery is next wed/thurs]

probaz · 11-09-2008 10:35pm

Bought from http://www.1staudiovisual.co.uk/ in August Samsung Le40A656 LCd €1070 including delivery.
£100 pounds delivery charge but still saved 350 compared to buying from irish retailer. Delivery was the next day.
Just needed to fax them proof of address. then whole process was fantastic. Great TV great Service. Look to shop abroad for a bargain. When you compare the price in currys Dublin to Currys in Newry Northern Ireland It tells you that we are being ripped off because the irish market bears it. So if buying expensive tv Shop online or hop in your car and drive to northern Irekland to save hundreds

slave1 · 13-09-2008 2:50pm

TV: Sony 40V3000
Type: 40" LCD
Date Bought: 03-09-2008
Price: £600+£20=€791
Bought From: Richer Sounds
Retailer Satisfaction: Very happy
TV Satisfaction: Very Happy

Hard time getting through to RS, but worth it, surf the web, do your research and then give them a call

PS Gamer · 27-09-2008 2:19pm

TV: Panasonic TH42PY80
Type: 42" plasma
Date Bought: 26 Sept 2008
Price: €1235
Bought From: DID Electrical Waterford
Retailer Satisfaction: Top notch
TV Satisfaction: Very happy

Being waiting a while to buy a new TV and researched it alot. Delighted I went for this TV as so far it seems to be brill. Watched a BluRay last night and was delighted with the quality and also PS£ games look stunning on it.

kaimera · 29-09-2008 12:26pm

kaimera wrote: »

TV: Panasonic TH42PZ80
Type: 42" Plasma
Date Bought: 20080826
Price: €1009.15 [£802.90 incl. 5 year warrenty]
Bought From: http://richersounds.com
Retailer Satisfaction: Trés happy with buying over the phone.
TV Satisfaction: NA yet

Just ordered today along with a pioneer 5.1 home cinema kit.
total came to under 1200e.

Tv is OoS atm but should be in by the end of the week. Estimated delivery is next wed/thurs]

Cant change post.

Sadly richersounds couldnt get the PZ80 for me

for love nor money.

So went for the PZ8 instead, lower contrast ratio & one less hdmi port.

tv cost £750 but panasonic are honouring the 5 year warrenty at that price. [it was £70 extra otherwise iirc]

After waiting a month for the PZ80 to come in, changed the order to the PZ8 and that came into stock end of last week and delivered today along with our Pioneer 5.1 home cinema kit.

total incl delivery was ~€1170.

As an aside, richersounds have an awesome customer support crew. Great guys to talk to and very helpful.

alb · 05-11-2008 2:35pm

TV : Sony Bravia KDL 40W4000U
Type: 40" LCD
Date Purchased: 31 Oct 08
Price: €1023.37 including delivery
Bought From: Laptops Direct http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/s_KDL40W4000U/version.asp
Retailer Satisfaction: Very happy, excellent price and ordered Friday evening it arrived the following Tuesday afternoon.
TV Satisfaction: So far so Good, but this is my first LCD so I'm no expert.

Invincible · 10-11-2008 2:07am

alb wrote: »

TV : Sony Bravia KDL 40W4000U
Type: 40" LCD
Date Purchased: 31 Oct 08
Price: €1023.37 including delivery
Bought From: Laptops Direct http://www.laptopsdirect.ie/s_KDL40W4000U/version.asp
Retailer Satisfaction: Very happy, excellent price and ordered Friday evening it arrived the following Tuesday afternoon.
TV Satisfaction: So far so Good, but this is my first LCD so I'm no expert.

It's a pity you did'nt look at richersounds.com,they have it for £730,which equals 899 euro,they could deliver to the Republic for £20stg.

Glenbhoy · 12-11-2008 10:02pm

Sony 32 KDL V4000

Amazon.co.uk - £384 with 3 year guarantee - they don't deliever south of the border but I've family up there, I talked with richersounds who offered the same model at £365 or £405 with 5 year guarantee, but would have had to collect in Belfast, which wasn't convenient for me.

Glenbhoy · 15-11-2008 3:12pm

Glenbhoy wrote: »

Sony 32 KDL V4000

Amazon.co.uk - £384 with 3 year guarantee - they don't deliever south of the border but I've family up there, I talked with richersounds who offered the same model at £365 or £405 with 5 year guarantee, but would have had to collect in Belfast, which wasn't convenient for me.

Saw the alert for this tv on the bargains thread - £399 or €544 from currys, including a home theatre system -was sick!!
Luckily amazon then dropped their price to £329, and after checking every currys in NI (where I happen to weekending) and finding none of the specials left, I contacted amazon, explained my predicament and that I would be returning the tv as it was inside 30 days from sale - they agreed to refund me the difference, thus the TV cost me £329 - with a 3 year guarantee - now that's a deal - cheers to currys!!

godtabh · 15-11-2008 3:24pm

TV: Sony 40v4000
Type: 40" 1080p LCD
Date Bought: 15/11/08
Price: €999 + free Sony BDP-s350
Bought From: Sony Centre
Retailer Satisfaction: When I collect on Thursday I'll let you now
TV Satisfaction: NA yet

OverTheTop · 26-11-2008 12:59pm

kearnsr wrote: »

TV: Sony 40v4000
Type: 40" 1080p LCD
Date Bought: 15/11/08
Price: €999 + free Sony BDP-s350
Bought From: Sony Centre
Retailer Satisfaction: When I collect on Thursday I'll let you now
TV Satisfaction: NA yet

whats it like?

VERYinterested · 28-11-2008 12:52pm

TV: Sony 40W4500
1080p
20/11/2008 arrived 27/11/2008
€1,1836
Pixmania

Delighted with this set. Was going to buy it from Richer Sounds but they don't deliver them to Ireland anymore and couldn't guarantee when they'd be in stock, seems to be issues ordering from laptop place with credit cards. So I took the plunge last week and am blown away by the picture quality. When connected to UPC signal the digital tuner picks up 180 stations, between TV and radio. Can watch about 30 of these, saves me getting a second UPC digital box, have one elsewhere in the house. Don't know why I can't view all the stations, anyone shed any light on this? Only set it up last night, haven't had a chance to check out the MPEG4 signal for the terrestrial stations, will do that tonight. Xbox, PS3 connected via HDMI and honestly, the picture is amazing. Wii connected by component, Sky+ connected by scart, all look brilliant. Even the analogue feed from NTL is quite good, overall, in case you haven't guessed - delighted!

gebbel · 28-11-2008 9:40pm

VERYinterested wrote: »

Delighted with this set. Was going to buy it from Richer Sounds but they don't deliver them to Ireland anymore !

Since when?

Rew · 28-11-2008 10:33pm

Certain sets are reserved for in store only and the W4500 is one of them.

JmcG · 05-01-2009 8:19pm

TV: Samsung LE32A457
Type: 32" HD Ready LCD
Date Bought: 27/12/08
Price: £299.99 + £29.99 (5 year warranty) + £49.95 AV/TV rack = €409 approx
Bought From: Richersounds, Belfast
Retailer Satisfaction: Great service
TV Satisfaction: Delighted, slightly modified the 'movie' display settings preset and extremely happy with resultant picture; Videos (mainly XviD's), and games (on X360), look great and black levels are surprisingly good; can't comment on audio as pipe audio from 360 through a HiFi

blastman · 07-01-2009 6:23pm

TV: Samsung LE46A656
Type: 46" HD Ready LCD
Date Bought: 19/12/08
Price: £999
Bought From: Richersounds, Belfast
Retailer Satisfaction: Great service
TV Satisfaction: I bought this along with an AV amp and floorstander speakers (just went for two for the moment, no surround setup planned yet), but because I got it in the mouth of Christmas, I've only set the TV up so far. I've only tried standard aerial TV and standard Sky on it, but I've been very pleased so far. There is some ghosting visible on standard telly broadcasts which I presume is down to my aerial being a little off (this is actually more prevalent on Irish TV rather than the UK channels, for some reason). The TV didn't need much adjusting out of the box to get the picture looking just right (for me, anyway) and the viewing angle is very good. All in all, the picture is far superior to my recently-purchased Philips 22" LCD and I'm very very happy with the purchase and with Richer Sounds.

ve · 08-01-2009 8:21pm

TV: Sony KDL40V4000
Type: 40" LCD
Date Bought: This week
Price: €569 (+ shipping)
Bought From: LaptopsDirect.co.uk
Retailer Satisfaction: Happy
TV Satisfaction: Extremely Happy

The TV for the price is absolutely fantastic. I didn't need a > 50Hz screen (never watch football, mainly movies, etc). My only issue was with laptopsdirect.co.uk (or buyitdirect.co.uk) regarding payment. I placed an order on a Wednesday afternoon. When ordering I wanted my order shipped to my work office as opposed to my credit card billing address. I watched my order status remain @ "we have yet to take payment" then on Friday afternoon it switched to "order cancelled", so I rang them immediately. I was told that they contacted my bank and were told that the address specified and my billing address did not match. Which is true because I wanted it shipped to work, so I explained this. They grilled me as to why I would want to do that (there would have been nobody at home). They then tried to call me on my mobile while I called them from landline to verify that I was the person behind all contact numbers. They failed initially and told me someone else answered the phone and said they weren't me (while I was holding my mobile phone in my hand). I told them them to make sure they dialed my number in the international format (as I had specified when ordering) to which they said that had, but voila it worked the second time. I don't think they actually process your card details electronically at the time of order. Instead they just feck your card details in a database and then manually contact the bank with your details afterwards. This means that human intervention is required during the payment process. Pro's and Con's apply.

Anyway on the Friday afternoon they established payment, and shipped it to my billing address as they wouldn't ship it anywhere else. So I had to take time off work to receive it. It arrived yesterday in pristine condition. I've never seen a product of its size ship in such good condition.

Set it up yesterday evening and am extremely impressed with it. In fairness to laptopsdirect I believe they were just security concious which I respect. It did result in my order taking a little longer and having to take a few hours off work. Also they don't give you an online tracking number, instead give you an order number and a UK phone number to call. Thankfully I have free calls to UK landlines and at least they don't leave you holding for very long.

Would I do business with them again...Yes!

ve · 08-01-2009 8:29pm

OverTheTop wrote: »

whats it like?

I think it's the best LCD I've seen @ the price I paid.

For high def content it's absolutely fantastic. Analogue tv is decent also, but there isn't much you can do with inferior input. I have a friend who has the 3xxx series, and thought it looked good enough. I think the 4xxx looks even better. I took a bit of a risk because any shop I went in to I tried to get as many questions answered as I could without sounding too much like I knew what I was talking about. In the half dozen or so shops I visited the sales people all knew less than I did, and in one case talked for many mins about the tv and then brought me over to the completely wrong tv when I asked them for a demo. Shops can be a disaster.

tommiejoie · 10-01-2009 5:11pm

TV: LG 32LG2000
Type: 32" LCD
Date Bought: 10-01-2009
Price: €499
Bought From: Soundstore, Limerick
Retailer Satisfaction: Very happy
TV Satisfaction: Very Happy

For my first TV purchase, I'm pretty happy with this. I left the house this morning with the intention of going for the Samsung LE32a456c in Curry's but the guy in Soundstore was really helpful and knowledgeable; that's the power of good staff. Plus, I came across one too many problem stories about Samsung. I'm pretty happy with the LG. It appears to be very user friendly, nice menu's with good customization (front panel operating light can be turned off, inputs can be named - but only to preset names). Not sure if the picture quality is that good; I blame crappy Chorus, their OSD is tacky at best. The one thing I needed in a TV was VGA connection which I'm very impressed with.

Also picked up a Monstercable power-surge adaptor (not sure what the exact name is); also a nice piece of kit with built in antenna and satellite signal amplifiers. This wasn't in my original plan but I couldn't leave it behind.

I didn't get a stand, though I could have taken one for half price. As I'm only renting I didn't think it was was to get something which may not suit me long term.

D-WRX · 19-01-2009 12:52pm

TV: Panasonic Viera
Type: 50" Plasma Full HD
Date Bought: 21/12/08
Price: €1960 (Free Blu ray player)
Bought From: Harvey Norman ,Waterford
Retailer Satisfaction: Very happy
TV Satisfaction: Very Happy

M00lers · 20-01-2009 1:15pm

Ripped off I reckon.

D-WRX · 20-01-2009 4:00pm

Nah, got a good deal on it

PureBred · 20-01-2009 5:19pm

What model was it?

JoeA3 · 21-01-2009 11:24pm

TV: Sony 40W4500
Type:40" LCD Full HD
Date Bought: 10/01/09
Price: €1499 (including Sony 5yr Warranty and Sony BDP350 Bluray player, 5 blueray discs and a HDMI cable :pac:)
Bought From: Sony Centre Galway
Retailer Satisfaction: happy (wanted to buy in North, but had trouble finding it in stock, but happy enough anyhow)
TV Satisfaction: Delighted! Its a super TV.

PureBred · 22-01-2009 2:55pm

There €980 on samsyerman JoeA3.

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