Woot Deal: Westinghouse 37” 1080p LCD HDTV $569.99

[Gitaroomaan]

Soooo tempting. I'm trying desperately to convince myself that not only can I not afford that sort of expense right now, but I don't need it. Of course one downside of the TV is that it doesn't have an HD Tuner built in, but still...

Edit: It'd help if I sent the link:

http://www.woot.com

[NoName]

I was tempted too... this would be perfect for the bedroom. Sadly the timing isn't right :/.

Westinghouse TV's are great. I have the 42" 1080p Monitor of theirs in my livingroom.

[Mike Kelehan]

HD tuners are irrelevant. How often do you watch TV with rabbit ears? That's what a tuner is. You and me use HD cable/satellite/fiber. It adds $100+ to the TV for a feature you don't need.

The only thing that bothers me is the 8ms response time. Sure, it's fine for TV, movies, and most games, but not for fast, fast, fast action games like Beatmania or 2D fighters.

[Gitaroomaan]

HD tuners are irrelevant. How often do you watch TV with rabbit ears? That's what a tuner is. You and me use HD cable/satellite/fiber. It adds $100+ to the TV for a feature you don't need.

The only thing that bothers me is the 8ms response time. Sure, it's fine for TV, movies, and most games, but not for fast, fast, fast action games like Beatmania or 2D fighters.

I realize that about the tuner, I was just using it to convince myself not to spend the nonexistent money. Didn't see that about the response time though, now I most certainly wont' be getting it.

[KingGorilla]

For people looking to make the Hi Def jump for their kids, in a dorm, or in a bedroom, the prices for the 30-38 inch range are very good right now. Or maybe you just want to free up the gaming TV so other folks can watch TV or a Movie. I could see this holiday moving a lot of them.

[Dukefrukem]

Damn it. Is this found anywhere else?

[DeathtollWRX]

Do not buy Westinghouse.

I have a story for you

So I wanted a Monitor so i bought a westinghouse. Had a group of bad pixels upon startup. So I bought it to Best Buy to exhange it for a larger model but also from Westinghouse. The LCD on the monitor was miscolored so I brought it back to Best Buy to return it and I picked up an even larger Westinghouse monitor (22 inch) I brought it home and it never powered up. I brought it back to Best Buy, A week later I bought a 42inch 1080P Westinghouse (I mean the price was grrreat).
Anyways I used it for about six months, This whole time the sound on HDMI always crackled but I figiured it was my HDMI cable. After a while longer I noticed that it would freeze up and I could no longer change channels to I had to power cycle it. After a month of this I called up Westinghouse and they said there was a problem with the mainboard on the model I bought and told me to bring it to Best Buy. After bringing it to Best Buy they let me EXCHANGE it for another TV of the same value!!! YeS! A 7 month old TV and I'm going to get full credit? Well it turns out that Best Buy has a deal with Westinghouse and if you have problems Best Buy was willing to exchange them because of all the problems they have with Westinghouse's LCD monitors and TVs. I promptly picked up a 1080P Phillips with Ambilight. I haven't looked back since..

The moral of the story is...
Westhinghouse isn't all that great. They are so bad that Best Buy is willing to take trade ins over half a year later with FULL STORE CREDIT.

[Troggles]

The moral of the story is...
Westhinghouse isn't all that great. They are so bad that Best Buy is willing to take trade ins over half a year later with FULL STORE CREDIT.

If a place as shitty as Best Buy will do this, you know this is on fucked up company.

[DeathtollWRX]

If a place as shitty as Best Buy will do this, you know this is on fucked up company.

To this very day i'm still shocked.

You truly, honestly get what you pay for... one way or another.

[Kelegacy]

I've had nothing but greatness from our cheap 32" Westinghouse. It's a secondary tv, but I do almost all of my gaming on it now. And I use it as a computer monitor.

I think it was a great investment.

[Schnoogs]

I have a 37" Westinghouse...I love it to death. It was inexpensive but looks great.

[Dukefrukem]

I have a 37" Westinghouse...I love it to death. It was inexpensive but looks great.

Same here. I have the same one that was in this w00t. I bought it a week before the PS3 launch so I could play HD games. I also have a 32 720p one. Both have been great and saved me a lot of money. No problems. No regrets.

[Khrymsyn]

HD tuners are irrelevant. How often do you watch TV with rabbit ears? That's what a tuner is. You and me use HD cable/satellite/fiber. It adds $100+ to the TV for a feature you don't need.


Just a slight correction... if the TV has a ... I think it's called QAM digital tuner, you can quite often receive TV signals from TV cable too. Obviously not stations like HBO, but I can confirm right now that my Samsung at home has no cable box, only a coax line directly into the TV and I can currently see something like >50 analog channels, >100 digital channels (including 25 music) and about 20 HiDef (TNT, Discovery, NBC, CBS, Fox, etc).

[Maskatron]

My 42" Westy is still looking great after about a year.

[Deunnero]

Just do it for goodness sakes! You know you want too ... deal with the consequences afterwards! :D

[BabyJesus]

To all of you that posted today:

You do know that woot deals change every day and only last until sold out? This deal is dead since last night.

;)

[Matthias]

Man I was so tempted to lay down the remainder of my summer work money on this. I need a large monitor for workspace- my 15" MBP no longer cuts it- and also could use a nice TV such as this for the dorm room. My parents vetoed the idea, however... oh well.