[MLUG - DISCUSSION] HD DVD is all but officially dead

[Jonathan King]

On Feb 18, 2008 2:10 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Vern Green wrote:
>
> > I bought these from Frys, they had an awesome price. I had a pair of
> > Samsungs that were 1600x1200 resolution, but one got damaged, and me
> > being a guy that feels hamstrung with a single monitor, I bought two of
> > these.
> >
> > http://shop2.outpost.com/product/5175356?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
> >
> >  *LG 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor (1680x1050 Resolution/3000:1 Contrast/2ms
> > response time)*
> > LG:
> > *FRYS.com #: 5175356*
> >  The LG 22-inch widescreen LCD monitor with a 1,680-by-1,050 pixel
> > resolution and a speedy 2-millisecond black-to-white pixel response. Extra
> > features are scarce on this display, but it's more than capable of meeting
> > your everyday work needs.
>
> Yikes -- what a price!  How did you get around the "one per customer"
> limit?  I guess this means that you also got the two free printers.  No
> wonder they are sold out!
>
> I assume that "VDI-D" was a typo meant to be "DVI-D."

So Mike: I'm suddenly curious. Why do you endure such grief with mail
orer wehn you have a Micro Center like right next o you? In the last
Micro Center flyer, they had Acer 24" widescreens (1920x1200) with
1000:1 contrast for $349. Now, I'm not going to say that the LG people
were lying about 3000:1 contrast, but I suspect their measurement
techniques are, uh, non-standard. You really don't see a claim like
that very often.

Any way, as far as I can tell, Micro Center prices on most things are
decently close to mail order, you can see the item in the store, and
returning it is a lot more likely to work for you. Basically, it's
Fry's with somewhat smaller stores, slightly shorter lines, and
hit-or-miss customer service, which is also a lot like Fry's. They
also have a chalkboard up in the Build-your-own-PC showing that they
match NewEgg's (usually it's NewEgg's) prices on CPUs and such and
Crucial's price on RAM.

jking