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Fastbird
11-07-2009, 07:48 PM
Had to get up at 0630 on a saturday and leave the house at 0645, but it was worth it. I came home with a Sharp 42" LCD tv (1080P, 6ms, 60hz is the downside) for all of $500 from Wal-Mart. They had a special event today and the store near me I found out had 12 of them in stock, so off I went. Started at 0800 and amazingly I was #3 in line. There were other higher profile deals to be had (xBox Arcade for $199 that came with a $100 gift card, HP Laptop for $258) that were getting all the attention, so I'm quite happy coming away with the tv for the price.

Now it's off to monoprice to order a wall mount for above the fireplace, and to figure out if I'm going to try to hide wiring in the wall or not.

Obligatory teaser pic attached! Please don't laugh at the ghettofied setup right now. It's just to get things working until the wall mount comes in and I figure out a way to make an extension for the fireplace mantle so the cable box doesn't hang off it all funny like.

Wooshie
11-07-2009, 08:22 PM
sweet deal. you should post up pics after its hung.

Fastbird
11-07-2009, 08:58 PM
Plan to. Am trying to figure out if I want to go through the ass pain of running wiring through the wall or not currently. Really all I'd NEED to run/hide is power cables or install a power and cable outlet above the fireplace, but such a PITA. But I HATE wires running everywhere.

Counted Out
11-08-2009, 12:17 AM
Nice TV.

My brother just got a 40" Sharp Aquos from Best Buy for around $700.

finnv3
11-08-2009, 12:22 AM
Nice tv. What the heck are you watching? Wait i dont think i want to know that anwser. lol

Fastbird
11-08-2009, 10:49 AM
I have no idea what was on at the point I took that pic on my phone. I think it was a papa john's commercial or something.

Camaro_94
11-08-2009, 12:14 PM
Great deal!!

Congrats!

Fastbird
11-14-2009, 12:37 AM
Well, my whopping $50 tilt/extension/swivel mount from Monoprice came in today, and up on the wall it went. Did the install without any helping hands, I was just careful and measured twice. The results speak nicely:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/Fastbird93/Our%20New%20House/New%20Upstairs%20TV%20Setup/DSC_1664.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/Fastbird93/Our%20New%20House/New%20Upstairs%20TV%20Setup/DSC_1663.jpg

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i177/Fastbird93/Our%20New%20House/New%20Upstairs%20TV%20Setup/DSC_1667.jpg

Sadly though, the FIRST thing the wife says to me once it's up? "Should have gone with the 46"." DAMMIT WOMAN!