Buying a Big OLED TV Before the Super Bowl

Welcome to Voatlas. You are buying a window into Sunday. Football, the halftime show, the movie you finally get around to that night. A good OLED, which is a screen type that uses self-lit pixels for deeper blacks, should last you five or six years before the panel starts to dim and a new generation makes your set look tired. So buy once, on purpose, and you are done thinking about it until the next World Cup. Big OLEDs hit the market on a yearly cycle, and last year's model is almost always the smarter buy once the new ones are announced. Late January is right in that sweet spot. The new models are out, the old ones are marked down, and you have got a Super Bowl deadline to aim for. Now, if you are planning to finance this purchase, we need to talk about credit cards. Heads up, the zero percent intro APR, which is an annual percentage rate meaning the yearly cost of borrowing money, is a clock, not a coupon. Pay the full twenty-two hundred dollars before month fifteen ends and you will owe nothing in interest. Leave even a dollar on the table at month sixteen and the standard APR gets applied retroactively to the original purchase date. That is how a free fifteen months quietly turns into real money. Head over to voatlas.com for the written version of this piece with all the sources.