Cheap Big Screens

It’s getting easier and easier to find cheap big screens today, both for televisions and computer monitors. With all the new technologies available for display devices, the old technologies are cheaper than ever. If you can stand the size and bulkiness, you can get really cheap big screens for much less than just a handful of years ago. The really expensive screens today are all LCD or plasma technology, which has made less demand for the older CRT stuff.

I don’t really mind the bulkiness so much. Personally, I think I’d much rather have a cheap big screen CRT TV or monitor than a more expensive, smaller LCD or plasma display. Furthermore, LCD and plasma screens are still suffering from a lot of technical issues, whereas the older CRT technology is very reliable.

There’s a lot of good places to find cheap big screens these days, giving you plenty options. I usually do my initial shopping online to get a quick feel for prices and availabilities. You can get pretty good prices ordering cheap big screens directly from their manufacturers. Looking on Sharps home page, for instance, I see a lot of great deals there. Of course the down side is you have to pay for shipping, which can be a lot for such a big item. For this reason I don’t usually buy things like cheap big screens via the internet, but use it mostly just to get a feel for current pricing trends.

One of my favorite places to check out cheap big screens is at Costco, or other warehouse style wholesalers. Costco doesn’t really ever have a great selection, but they’ve always got at least a couple models of just about anything you’d ever want in. I don’t normally go to Costco just to get something like a cheap big screen TV but whenever I’m there I certainly check out what they have.

Fry’s electronics is another good store to check out if you have one near you. Unfortunately, I don’t, so I have to drive for nearly an hour to get to one. Whenever I find myself near one, however, I always make a quick stop inside to see what kind of deals they have. I always see a pretty big selection of cheap big screen TVs and monitors whenever I’m in there, and their prices are always in line with everything I see online, so I think they’re a pretty good store to start with if you can.