Here's the situation:
I'm building a new house and for the basement I wanted to buy a 60" Pioneer Elite Kuro PRO-151FD Plasma TV.
This is bar none the best plasma on the market and it should be for the price ~ $6700.00
Turns out that Pioneer is no longer going to make the Kuro TV as there simply wasn't enough demand for a TV in that price range.
Soundsaround is the only distributor (as far as I know) in Calgary for the Pioneer Elite TV's. They have no new TV's left, only those on display in their stores.
I can't seem to find a new model anywhere: Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Regina, etc.
So my question is would you buy the floor model?
The TV has been on display for a year the rep tells me.
So realistically it's on for 10 hours a day, 7 days a week....for a total of ~3500 hours of use so far.
I couldn't find the expected life of the panel, but Panasonic quotes 100,000 hours so I would hope that Pioneer would be close if not the same.
This means is has used roughly 4% of it's life expectancy (based on Panasonic's numbers) so in my mind that is not a lot of time.
I'm torn on what to do.
Please pass your comments and thoughts along.
Thanks
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