[wonderwes]

You buy an HDTV online you are going to save hundreds in sales tax. Plus it will at least it will usually be lower than retail. Unless its a huge rear projection hdtv, the shipping should not be that horrible. Now any hdtv set you want a warranty to cover it. Now you can buy independent warranties on ebay, or maybe the place you bought it off of. Buying any TV on ebay will always be cheaper, but can you trust the buyer, even with all the positive feedback?

You could always buy it off crutchfield.com, now the price would probably be around retail price, but at least from a major company like Crutchfield, if anything happened they would easily fix/replace the TV.