A NEW LCD TV!

It was exam day today for the kids so we just stayed at home – the hubby continued his cabinet project while I puttered about the house just cleaning a bit including the yard and the rabbit cages. Then, when the kids arrived after lunch we ate a late lunch then slept the afternoon off since it was a bit hot to do anything much. We decided to leave for SM Fairview at around 7pm and proceeded at once to the Appliance Center. We browsed first the Samsung units and saw that their picture quality is indeed very sharp as compared to the others. But their prices are just so steep! The Series 4 that we wanted costs 22K and didn’t have any freebie attached to it, not even a wall bracket! There was a slightly lesser version, their Series 3 but it doesn’t recognize USB playback of movies and so we opted to browse at other brands

Our next stop was LG (take note we didn’t anymore bother to look at Sony because we know they had a much higher price range ) and we saw a unit for only 18K, with a bit similar specs as the Samsung except that their screen resolution wasn’t as clear. And so we move on until we got to the last part of the showroom (we went past some unknown names like Changhong and Sanyo) until we got to Devant, it was also an unknown brand (well to me it is). The unit costs also about 20K but the good thing is that, it had a free HDMI player from NextBase (which costs about 3 to 4K), a free wall bracket, and a free appliance at the SM App Center that costs PhP500.00. We checked out the screen resolution and it was OK (still not as clear compared to the Samsung) but what the heck, there were lots of freebies and I guess it was enough. The TV itself can play movies thru the USB which only the higher (and pricier) Samsung units can do. Even the kids said we should buy it already. So we completed our purchases (bought an energy saving lamp for the PhP500 freebie), ate dinner at the foodcourt and went home so happy and excited as a family to finally have a brand new 32-inch LCD TV!!!

(P.S. Learned later on thru the net that Devant is actually a Singaporean brand and their products are being distributed here in the country by Techpoint, the same ones who distribute NextBase, a European brand…so I guess their reputation is solid.)