Saturday, December 22, 2012

COBY Who?

What I Saw                                 
  


    Wooted
Me and MoSup Christmas gifted Mo-Sup with a   Famous Maker 46" 1080p 3D LED HDTV  for $405 Delivered! (Woot).  3-DShe had a lousy 32 inch SEKO that didn't get full HD, and had no recognized code for the Verizon remote.  When it was being unloaded from the truck yesterday, I looked—gasp.  HFS!  The "famous maker" is SONY!  But, when the guy put the box down in the hallway—see rollover.   It was a COBY!?!

My first thought was of Manhattan discount stores selling SOMY electronics and such.  Yikes. I Googled COBY and up popped ads from Best Buy, Wal-Mart, etc.; so I felt better.

Getting to the bottom line—HMFS! Out of the box this is the best picture I've ever seen, and I have a Sony 46" LCD in the den. LED rocks.  I can pick this thing up with one hand. My selling point to MoSup was that she can leave it running for a year with $2 of electricity.  I overstated, but not by a whole hell of a lot.   Coby claims a yearly cost of $21.  Plus, the picture is viewable from any angle.

After charging up the included 3-D glasses, I  found RIO on Verizon, and HFS!  It's freaking 3-D! It's wonderful—way way better than the only other 3-D movie I ever saw, House of Wax. And get this.  ESPN is going 3-D at year end!  HFS!!!

Anyway, I'm happy.  MoSup's flabbergasted.  The sumbitch might break in a year, but for now this is one sweet deal. I just noticed that the Woot promo does say "Coby 46" 1080p 3D LED HDTV, 3 HDMI." Now it does. I swear it didn't when I first tuned in.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I have a Coby TV with built in DVD. A small one in the kithen. A gift from years ago. My only complaint was the remote died. The DirecTV remote handled most of the functions but not the DVD. Ebay hooked me up for $10.
Tim

Rodger the Real King of France said...

COBY COBY COBY!

Merrily said...

MoSup is one lucky girl...for more than one reason.
Merry Christmas Schultzes!! (I might reiterate...ya never know!)

rickn8or said...

Regarding television size: "Is it big enough for the wife to see it from the kitchen?"

pdwalker said...

COBY CBOY COBY!

Anonymous said...

Bought a bottom line Coby DVD player for the grandson when he was three. $29.Damn thing ran non-stop for 10yrs. Fuck The Lion King.

drew458 said...

Keep us posted on how it lasts etc.
Oh, and what's the refresh rate? Our new LED is 240hz, which really smooths out motion.

They've got these for sale in the grocery store for $399, and $299 for the next size down.

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