Home Electronics
Home electronics gear is certainly plentiful and it's relatively cheap, compared to the price of the high-end stuff sought by truly obsessed enthusiasts. But when sophisticated gear becomes inexpensive through mass production, there's a hidden cost -- the price of repair can easily equal or exceed the purchase price. That means that in just a year or two, that big-screen TV or DVD player can wind being just another piece of household debris bound for the nearest landfill.
Products
- Akai
- Apex Digital
- Apple iPod
- Bose
- Coby Electronics
- Dell Plasma TV
- DTV Converter
- Emerson TV
- GE
- Haier
- Hitachi
- HP TV
- ILO TV
- Insignia
- JVC TVs
- LG
- Magnavox Blu-ray
- Magnavox TV
- Memorex
- Mitsubishi
- Mitsubishi TV
- Microsoft Zune
- Nintendo
- Oregon Scientific
- Panasonic
- Panasonic TVs
- Philips
- Polaroid DVD
- Polaroid TV
- RCA
- Samsung Blu-ray
- Samsung TV
- Sanyo TV
- Sharp TV
- Sirius Satellite Radio
- Sony
- Sylvania TV
- Toshiba
- Toshiba DVD Player
- Westinghouse
- Xbox
- XM Satellite Radio
- Zenith/LG Large-Screen TVs
- Viore TV
- Vizio
Retailers & Service
- 6th Avenue Electronics
- Best Buy
- Broadway Computer & Video
- Future Shop, Canada
- FYE
- Game Crazy
- Gamestop
- Ken Cranes Home Entertainment, Hawthorne, CA
- Lifetime Service Center
- PC Richard & Son
- Sears
- Ultimate Electronics
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OK, so maybe this section isn't the couch potato's dream. If you don't find what you're looking for here, it might be in appliances, cell phones, computers or even furniture. Feel free to look around.
