HDTVs at special prices on BlackFriday sites
HDTV’s will be one of the best products to buy this holiday season, as retailers are getting set to have a lot of special HDTV deals for them this year. According to Paul Gagnon, an analyst with DisplaySearch, “The drivers of a lot of the promotional activity and growth last year were flat panel TVs, and that will happen again. Last year, prices fell unexpectedly far. And this year, you’ll see some good deals on Black Friday, too.”
There are lots of sites where you can get the scoop on the best deals, such as TGIBlackFriday, Black Friday 2007, CyberMonday.com, Black Friday info, Deals Plus, Fat Wallet, Black-Friday.net, and so on. Most sites post leaked sales circulars on their sites, although not all will have the scoop on who is offering what at which price.
Pricing for HDTVs will vary according to their size, with the best deals for the 40″ screens, in both LCD and Plasma, which have the full 1920-by-1080p resolution. According to Gagnon, “We’ll see the biggest discounts this holiday season from plasma. Plasma manufacturers have surplus capacity available to them.”
Some other top deals that we’ve culled from ads: $900 for a 42-inch 720p plasma TV, the Panasonic TH-42PX75U, (online is closer to $1000) an “early bird” special at Best Buy; and $900 for Sylvania’s LC420SS8, a 42-inch 1080p LCD TV that is an early markdown at Sears. Earlier this fall, there had been rumors among industry jockeys about a 42-inch 720p plasma TV for $600 by the holidays, but don’t hold out for this deal: Nothing has surfaced on the Black Friday spoiler sites, and Gagnon says the research firm’s own ferreting hasn’t confirmed this, either.