February 11th, 2009
Tax Refund Special: Home theater
If you wind up with the average household tax refund this year, you can set up a nice little home theater for around $2,500. Here’s how I would configure it with that budget.
- HDTV
As I mentioned the other day in a post about Pioneer possibly exiting the TV business altogether, now is a great time to pick up one of the company’s awesome plasma sets. The outstanding Kuro PDP-5020FD is available for under $2,000, but that would leave us with little left for the rest of our setup. So I’m going to go with the Samsung PN50A550, which I could purchase for under $1,400 and still get a fine 1080p 50-inch plasma. It may not offer top-of-class black-level performance, but it makes up for it with excellent color accuracy.
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Sean Portnoy spent several years as an editor at Computer Shopper magazine, most recently serving as online executive editor. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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