Television

Hi

Can you tell me where the best and cheapest place is to buy a television we have a holiday home in Daya Nueva. Thanks

I'd suggest Media Markt in Elche (first junction).

http://specials.mediamarkt.es/tiendas/elche

They have a good selection and the prices are a little cheaper than some of the expat areas - Like Zenia Boulevard.

Would also suggest as a general rule of thumb avoiding cheap own brand type TV's - Carrefour's own such as Blusens, Hisense. Also Oki, not got good reliability record. We see a lot of the cheaper brands that seems to have problems about 2 minutes out of warranty - Samsung best seller, Panasonic, Phillips, Sony, Toshiba all good - LG slightly cheaper brand, above cheapest own brand type - not quite as good as Samsung / Panasonic / Sony. You may get double the shelf life out of a decent brand TV - so sometimes worth spending a little more initially.

If thinking of the future the two main 'future proof' considerations are 4K and HDR - HDR may prove of more use than 4K to many as is already transmitting on satellite / Netflix / game consoles - and gives 25% odd more colour spectrum. Upscaling as well - depending on how big you get the TV - upscaling takes an HD or below signal and improves the resolution, recommended. 42 inch best value vs size if you want good panel & features - though even 50-55 have come down a lot recently.


Bet you wish you hadn't asked now


Paul
www.televisiontechnology.eu

Media Markt has a good selection and are usually cheaper than Carrefour. The one in Zenia Boulevard charges exactly the same as the one in Elche (it's all on a national website and the catalogues are printed in Madrid plus the price on TV is the same).
Tien 21 outlets are quite common and they have a very good after sales service, much better than Carrefour anyway.
If you go to Zenia Boulevard, have a look in AlCampo as well as they sometimes have special deals on. You can also compare prices there with Media Markt as well and Media Markt are advertising "Black Friday" deals which I assume is today.

Edited to add:
Just seen Black Friday is next Friday, not this one. Deals are on their website now, though.

Thankyou for the advice always welcome

Is there a link for English on Media Markt website and if so how do I get it.

There's not a link for English language - though below is a link which goes straight to the TV section.

https://tiendas.mediamarkt.es/productos?q=televisores&page=1&top=0

If looking up models to see if any good, you can just copy the model number from the website and enter into google, with 'review' afterwards to find descriptions in English elsewhere on the web.

Paul
http://www.televisiontechnology.eu

Another shop I would like to recommend after receiving wonderful service is MILAR.
There is one at Punta Prima which was extremely helpful.

Hi,
If you need to view any web page in English then use Google Chrome as your browser.
You can set the browser to translate any web page for you, from any language to any language.
Seems too good to be true, but it works.
Hope this helps.