Best Buy HD-Ready LCD scam?

By Barb Dybwad

Reader Chris wrote in to report a recent experience at Best Buy purchasing a $479 "HD-Ready" flat-panel LCD that turned out to be not so HD-Ready at all. Magnavox customer support informed Chris that the model he'd bought, the Magnavox 17MF200V/1, is definitely not HD-Ready. The display has no component inputs, nor does its DSUB PC input take an HDTV signal via adapter. Best Buy is marketing this unit heavily, and it looks like their cheapest "HD-Ready" set,
so just consider this a bit of caveat emptor on that, mmmkay?

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